Carlsbad Concrete Group is the North County region's leading specialist in heavy-duty parking slabs, specializing in RV pads, boat trailer pads, and side-yard storage slabs. We offer shed pads and thickened-edge trailer aprons.
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Our team provides line-pump pours for narrow side yards, delivering firm parking for homes and load-ready slabs for both residential and commercial projects. Behind every pad stand 11 years in business and a 1-year workmanship warranty, and we have placed over 1,460 projects, from a 520 sq ft side yard pad to a 1,100 sq ft rural driveway.
From the thickened edge under the wheel path to the slope that sends water to the street, our team handles every detail. Serving Carlsbad and neighboring Solana Beach, Poway, Bonsall and Harmony Grove, we plan how the RV gets onto the pad before we plan the pad itself.
Call now for a free estimate, and we will measure your gate, your side yard and the turn in from the street.
What you can hold us to
Sean, Lomas Santa Fe, Solana Beach
A narrow side yard of loose gravel where a boat trailer kept sinking
Investment and duration figures are estimates. Your written quote sets the final price and schedule.
Sean in Solana Beach had a narrow side yard of loose gravel where a boat trailer kept sinking. We poured a thickened broom-finished slab on a compacted base with rebar, sloped toward the street so water leaves the lot. The pad was an estimated $4,900 to $6,800 and took an estimated 2 to 3 days on site, plus the cure before the trailer rolled back on. Sean now has a firm pad that holds the boat trailer and a storage shed on one small footprint.
An RV pad is sized from the vehicle you own plus room to walk around it, open its doors and run the slide-outs. A motorhome, a fifth-wheel, a travel trailer and a boat on its trailer each sit differently, so we measure the real rig, the tongue and the overhang instead of working from a brochure length. Most residential pads we pour cover about 400 to 700 sq ft of thickened slab for an RV, boat or storage, and long side yards in Poway and Bonsall often take the larger end.
The tires decide how an RV pad is built, since a loaded rig rests its whole weight on a few small contact patches and a jack stand. Driveway-weight concrete is not enough under a loaded motorhome, so the field of the pad goes in at 5 to 6 in. with the edges thickened under the wheel path. Rebar on chairs holds any crack tight, dowels carry the load across joints where wheels cross, and isolation joints keep the pad from pushing against a house footing or a block wall. Horse trailers on Karen's 1,100 sq ft rural driveway in Bonsall roll over the same broom-finished concrete with thickened edges.
Loose gravel and soft fill are why Sean's trailer kept sinking, and expansive clay on inland lots in Harmony Grove Village swells and shrinks with the seasons. We excavate to firm soil, compact a crushed rock base and check it before the pour.
We plan the route onto the pad before the pad, because a flawless slab behind a gate the rig cannot swing through is useless, and on long Rancho Santa Fe drives the last turn is often tighter than the gate. We measure the gate opening, the fence posts, the turn from the street and any slope at the side yard entrance. When the RV needs its own way in from the street, a second approach and curb cut is a separate permitted job through our driveway approach and curb cut service.
Narrow side yards rarely let a mixer truck in, so a line pump carries the concrete through a hose from the street, which keeps the truck off your drive and is how the Lomas Santa Fe side yard was poured.
RV parking rules are checked before the pour, because a pad you cannot legally use is wasted money. Carlsbad publishes an information bulletin on storing recreational equipment such as campers, motor homes, trailers and boats on private property, and many associations limit RV and boat parking in their CC&Rs. Inside a gated Fairbanks Ranch community or a Lake San Marcos association, the board's approval often comes before any city question. Whether the slab or a shed on it needs a permit depends on the address, in Carlsbad or out in Elfin Forest, and the quote states it plainly.
A side-yard storage slab is the same build at a smaller scale, and it turns a strip of dirt into usable space for bins, a shed or a workshop bench.
Most RV pads and side-yard slabs we pour around Carlsbad are estimated at roughly $2,400 to $8,400 per project, and size, thickness, access for the pump and any tear-out move the price most. A pad that needs a new curb cut to reach it carries the driveway approach and curb cut as a separate permitted line.
About 400 to 700 sq ft of thickened slab for an RV, boat or storage
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.
| Job | Est. investment | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|
| RV pad or side-yard slab | Est. $2,400 to $8,400 per project | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Driveway approach and curb cut | Est. $1,300 to $7,800 per project | Est. 2 to 4 days |
| Driveway tear-out and repour | Est. $3,200 to $10,400 per project | Est. 2 to 5 days |
| Sport court slab | Est. $4,500 to $9,000 per project | Est. 3 to 5 days |
Sean's pad sat in the middle of that range at an estimated $4,900 to $6,800, because the 520 sq ft side yard was pumped from the street and the gravel had to be dug out first. A pad poured with a sport court slab or a driveway tear-out and repour on the same visit typically shares the pump and the crew.
All RV pad figures here are estimates for Carlsbad and are subject to change after we measure. Your written quote sets the final price and the pour schedule, and it depends on the pad size, the slab thickness and the access.
An RV pad needs the heaviest build, a boat or trailer pad comes next, and a shed pad is the lightest.
| Slab | What it carries | How we build it | Est. time on site |
|---|---|---|---|
| RV pad | A motorhome or fifth-wheel | Thickened edges, rebar and dowels at joints | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Boat or trailer pad | A boat trailer or utility trailer | Thickened slab, rebar, sloped to the street | Est. 2 to 3 days |
| Shed or storage slab | A shed, bins or a workbench | Standard slab, rebar, isolation joint at the house | Est. 1 to 2 days |
A broom finish, typically estimated at $6 to $13 per sq ft installed, is our standard on an RV pad because tires and boots grip it in the wet. Exposed aggregate, typically estimated at $7 to $18 per sq ft installed, hides tire marks on a pad that faces the street, and a pad joined to the drive can match a replacement driveway poured at the same time.
RV owners choose us because, after 1,460 projects, we still measure the rig and the route before we price the slab, so the pad fits what actually parks on it. A crew of 3 to 5 on pour day, with the finishing foreman on every pour, places and brooms a 700 sq ft pad in one pour. Every pad carries our 1-year written workmanship warranty from the day the concrete is placed, and the deposit is no more than 10% or $1,000, whichever is less.
We pour RV and trailer pads within a 35-mile radius of our Carlsbad yard, from Solana Beach side yards to Poway lots with room for a motorhome and Bonsall horse properties with trailer parking. Elfin Forest, Harmony Grove and Rancho Santa Fe are on our full North County coverage page.
An RV pad often needs its own curb cut and widened approach from the street, a side yard that collects water may need a trench drain or drainage channel along the house, and a roofed building on the slab is a job for an ADU or addition slab foundation.
An RV pad or side-yard slab is estimated at roughly $2,400 to $8,400, and your written quote sets the final price after we measure.
We pour RV pads 5 to 6 in. thick with edges thickened under the wheel path, set by the weight of the rig.
Cars can typically use the pad after about 7 days, and RVs wait an estimated 3 to 4 weeks for the slab to gain strength.
It depends on the city bulletin and any association rules for your lot, and we check both before you commit to the pour.
Yes, a line pump carries concrete through a hose from the street when the truck cannot reach the side yard.
Only when the RV needs its own way in from the street, and that approach is permitted separately.
Yes, Sean's pad in Lomas Santa Fe holds both, with the shed set where it leaves the trailer a straight pull in.
Request a free estimate, and we will measure the rig, the gate and the side yard, then send a written quote for a pad that carries the weight.
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.
