Carlsbad Concrete Group is coastal San Diego's premier specialist in horse barn concrete, specializing in heavy-broom barn aisles, sloped wash rack floors, and concrete aprons in front of each stall. We offer easy-sweep feed room slabs and sealed floors for the tack room.
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Our team provides trailer parking pads, delivering safe footing for homes with horses and heavy-duty flatwork for both residential and commercial projects. Backed by 11 years in business and our 1-year written workmanship warranty, we've completed over 1,460 projects, from a single wash rack beside a paddock to a full barn pad with its aisle and turnaround.
From the tooled grooves where a soapy horse stands to the drain grate and the deepened edge beside each barn post, our team handles every detail. Serving Carlsbad and neighboring Rancho Santa Fe, Bonsall and Poway, we lay out barn concrete around the horses and the rigs that use it every day.
Request a free estimate, and we will walk the barn, the wash rack and the trailer route with you before we quote a single slab.
What you can hold us to
Laura, an equestrian lot off Via de la Valle, Rancho Santa Fe
A dirt barn aisle that turned to mud at the wash rack every time a horse was bathed
Dale, a pasture lot west of Interstate 15, Bonsall
A wash rack on bare soil that undermined the barn posts
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Laura's barn on an equestrian lot off Via de la Valle in Rancho Santa Fe now has a clean, drained aisle that dries within the hour of a bath. Her dirt aisle turned to mud at the wash rack every time a horse was bathed, so we poured a 12 x 70 ft aisle and wash rack, about 840 sq ft, in a heavy broom finish for hoof traction, sloped to a trench drain at the rack with rubber mats kept to the stalls. Laura's barn was an estimated $7,600 to $10,100 and took an estimated 3 to 5 days.
Dale in Bonsall, on a pasture lot west of Interstate 15, now has firm footing for his horses and barn posts that stay dry. His old wash rack sat on bare soil that was undermining the posts, so we poured a sloped 720 sq ft wash rack and aisle in a broom-finished surface, with a thickened edge at the posts and a drain to the pasture side. His project ran an estimated $5,600 to $7,900 over an estimated 3 to 4 days.
The finish on horse property is chosen for traction under a wet, shod hoof, not for looks, and a steel-troweled floor is the risk we refuse to pour where horses walk. Steel troweling pulls a slick layer of cement paste to the surface, and horses hesitate to walk, lie down or stand up on that glaze. A rough broom finish gives grip in an aisle and wears well. Where water is constant, tooled or sawn grooves keep their grip long after a light broom texture has smoothed out, which is why every Poway and Rancho Santa Fe wash rack we pour is grooved or heavy broomed.
Water control comes before concrete on a wash rack, so we lock in the fall and the drain location first. The floor slopes evenly toward a drain at the side or back of the rack, never in the middle where horses stand. A trench drain with a grate a horse can step on carries the water to an outlet planned for the site, away from barn posts and stall walls. Curbs, splash walls and tie points are formed in the same pour, so nothing is bolted into a finished floor later.
Aisles, wash racks, feed rooms and tack rooms each want a different surface, so a single barn pad commonly gets three or four finishes. The table shows where each one belongs.
| Barn area | Finish we pour | Why it suits that area |
|---|---|---|
| Barn aisle | Heavy broom finish | Grip under shod hooves, sweeps clean, sloped to the sides |
| Wash rack | Grooved or very rough broom | Keeps traction when the floor is wet and soapy |
| Feed room | Smooth troweled and sealed | Spilled grain and dust sweep up easily |
| Tack room | Smooth and sealed | Keeps saddles and bridles off damp, dusty concrete |
| Trailer loading area | Textured broom | A horse stepping off a ramp needs grip, not polish |
A broom-finished aisle and wash rack sloped to a drain, about 720 to 900 sq ft
Demolition, haul-off, compacted base, rebar and a broom or exposed finish for a 2-car drive
Integral color, a stamp pattern and release, sealed after cure, about 400 sq ft
Tear-out around the coping, new base and steel, a cool broom, salt or exposed finish
A poured cantilevered wall with footing, steel and drainage behind it, about 50 linear ft
Rough-sawn board forms leave the wood grain in the face, about 200 sq ft of wall
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
A barn aisle and wash rack in Carlsbad and North County is estimated at roughly $4,300 to $10,800 for about 720 to 900 sq ft, and the square footage, the drain run and truck access down a long ranch drive move the price most. The table shows the barn jobs we quote most often.
| Barn job | Est. investment | Est. duration |
|---|---|---|
| Barn aisle and wash rack (about 720 to 900 sq ft) | Est. $4,300 to $10,800 per project | Est. 3 to 5 days |
| Wash rack slab with trench drain | Est. $4,300 to $7,600 per project | Est. 3 to 4 days |
| Long barn aisle with stall-front aprons | Est. $6,000 to $10,800 per project | Est. 3 to 5 days |
| Trailer parking pad, priced like an RV pad or side-yard slab | Est. $2,400 to $8,400 per project | Est. 2 to 3 days |
Barns at the end of a long Olivenhain or Fairbanks Ranch North drive often need a pump truck or a second mixer trip, which typically pushes a job toward the top of the range.
These barn prices are estimates for Carlsbad and the surrounding horse country and are subject to change. Your written quote after the barn walk sets the final price and the pour schedule, and it depends on the square footage, the drain layout and how the truck reaches the barn.
The turning path of your truck and trailer sets the slab layout, so we start with how you drive in, turn and back up. A small bumper-pull trailer swings in far less room than a gooseneck rig, so we walk your route together and mark the spot where the ramp comes down. Pads and barn drives that carry a loaded rig are thickened and reinforced, and cars should typically stay off fresh concrete for 7 days, with heavy trucks and trailers waiting about 3 to 4 weeks.
A barn rarely stops at the aisle, and the same pour can reach the house. Owners add a trailer pad or side-yard slab for the horse trailer, and a trench drain or drainage channel to carry wash water to the pasture side.
Our owner walks every barn layout before it is quoted, because a barn floor that fails under a horse is a safety problem, not a cosmetic one. The finishing foreman who brooms your aisle is on every pour, and the 1-year workmanship warranty covers the slab from the day the concrete is placed. We have worked horse property across a 35-mile radius for 11 years, from Rancho Santa Fe estates to Poway, the City in the Country.
Much of our barn work happens on Rancho Santa Fe horse estates, where we confirm whether the Covenant wants to see the hardscape before we form anything, and onto the rural lots of Bonsall and Poway. We also pour barn slabs in Elfin Forest, Harmony Grove and Fairbanks Ranch, listed on our service area page.
The long drive to the barn often needs a driveway tear-out and repour once trailers have broken it up, and a sloped paddock may need an engineered retaining wall before a flat barn pad fits.
A barn aisle and wash rack is estimated at roughly $4,300 to $10,800 for about 720 to 900 sq ft, and your written quote after the barn walk sets the final price.
Most barn aisles and wash racks take an estimated 3 to 5 days on site, from forming and base work to the broom finish.
Yes, when it is broom finished or grooved for traction, never steel troweled smooth, and stalls get bedding or rubber mats on top.
The drain belongs at the side or back of the rack, never in the middle where the horse stands.
Yes, we lay the pad out from your rig's turning path and thicken it for a loaded trailer.
Light foot traffic can usually start within days, and trucks and loaded trailers typically wait about 3 to 4 weeks.
Yes, Bonsall, Poway, Rancho Santa Fe, Elfin Forest and Harmony Grove Village are where most of our barn work happens.
We ask for no more than 10% or $1,000 up front, whichever is less, and the balance follows in progress payments tied to the barn work.
Call us or request a free estimate, and we will walk the barn and trailer route and write an itemized quote for every slab.
Start to finish
We measure the area, shoot the grades and check drainage before anything is quoted.
The quote names the tear-out, base, reinforcement, finish and control joint layout.
The subgrade is compacted and the forms and rebar are checked before the truck is booked.
The crew places, finishes and cuts the joints, then walks the cured work with you.
Where we work
Call us or send the form, and we will book a site walk and measure the job.
Calls only, we do not receive text messages.
