Patios & Stamped Concrete
Concrete patios and stamped concrete for homes across Sonoma County, poured by our own crew.
Rich's Paving is the concrete contractor that homeowners and property managers call in Petaluma. We pour concrete flatwork, which covers walkways, sidewalks, entry landings and concrete curbs. Slabs and pads for sheds, shops and equipment are flatwork too. We have worked across Sonoma County since 1988, and we are a family paving company in its third generation. Our crew sets the forms, places the ready mix concrete and pulls the finish.
Concrete and asphalt sit side by side on most of the sites we work. We pour the walks, the curbs and the pads, then pave the driveway or the lot beside them. Both go in on the same job, so the grades line up where the two surfaces meet. That also means one estimate and one schedule for the whole surface.
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At a house, most of our concrete work is flatwork. That means a front walkway, a side path to the yard and an entry landing at the door. We also pour pads for a shed, a workshop or a generator. Concrete curbs go along the edge of a drive to hold back planting beds. If the job is a full driveway slab, we cover that work on its own page. For a sitting area with a pattern pressed into it, look at a stamped patio out back.
At a business the list changes. We pour sidewalks along the building, plus concrete curbs and gutters that carry runoff to the inlets. We also form the surrounds around catch basins and channel drains. Dumpster pads take the weight of a loaded bin and the truck that lifts it. ADA pathways and curb ramps run from the accessible stalls to the front door. We pour concrete flatwork for homes and businesses, and foundations, footings and structural building slabs are not our work. A wall that holds back grade is a different job, and we build those as block and stone walls.
Old flatwork comes out first. We break up the broken walk or slab and haul the spoil off in our own dump trucks. Then we cut the subgrade to depth and bring in crushed rock. That rock goes down in lifts and gets compacted with a plate compactor until nothing moves underfoot. Forms go in next, set to a grade that carries rain off the concrete and away from the building. Where the job calls for it, steel reinforcement goes inside the forms before any concrete arrives.
Ready mix concrete arrives by truck and gets placed inside the forms. We screed it flat, float the surface and tool the edges. A broom finish goes on last, so the walk keeps grip when it is wet. Control joints go in while the slab is fresh. Concrete Network sets the spacing rule at two to three times the slab thickness in inches, measured in feet. That puts joints eight to twelve feet apart on a four inch slab, cut a quarter of the slab depth. Foot traffic is fine after about a day, and we give you the full cure timeline before we leave.
Most flatwork at a house does not need a building permit. California Building Code Section 105.2 exempts sidewalks and driveways not more than 30 inches above adjacent grade. Work in the public right of way needs an encroachment permit from Permit Sonoma. Its right of way covers driveways, sidewalks, curbs and gutters. Our ground works against a slab too. The USDA Clear Lake clay, mapped in Sonoma County, opens cracks as deep as 48 inches when it dries. So we build the rock base this clay needs. The 1991 to 2020 climate normals for Petaluma Airport put July rain at 0.01 inches, so summer is our pour season.
A walkway at a business is usually part of an accessible route. Chapter 11B of the California Building Code sets its shape. Clear width for sidewalks and walks is 48 inches minimum. Running slope stays no steeper than 1 in 20, and cross slope no steeper than 1 in 48. Curb ramps hold a running slope no steeper than 1 in 12 and a clear width of 48 inches. Each ramp also carries a detectable warning surface of truncated domes in yellow. We check which rule applies before we quote. We pour walks, curbs and pads in Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Novato, San Rafael and Sonoma.
Concrete wins where a surface has to stay put and stay clean. Walkways, entry landings, equipment pads, curbs and ADA routes all belong in concrete. Concrete also holds up where water stands, and it stays a light gray instead of black. Asphalt wins on long runs and wide areas, where it goes down fast and flexes with the ground. If the job is a long driveway, read how an asphalt driveway goes down. Our guide sets the two surfaces against each other for a Sonoma County driveway.
Concrete and asphalt land on the same commercial site more often than not. Sidewalks, curb ramps, dumpster pads and ADA pathways are concrete. The drive lanes and stalls are asphalt. We pour the concrete work on the same visit as the lot surface itself. That keeps the site closed once instead of twice. Once the asphalt has cured, the stalls and access aisles get painted. Send us the plan or the address and ask for a concrete flatwork estimate.
Clear written estimates across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the Bay Area.
(707) 217-0835From the first site visit to the final pass of the roller, here is how it goes.
We come see the site: the old surface, the ground under it, how water moves, and what the job really takes. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a written estimate with a real number and a real timeline. It covers what is included, from grading and base rock to the finished surface, and it holds unless the scope changes.
Our own crew and equipment show up when we said and build the job the way we quoted it. Base first, then the surface, compacted and finished right.
Before we call a job done, we walk it with you. Clean edges, solid compaction, water running where it should. Done means you say it is done.
Common questions about concrete flatwork & ada paths across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the Bay Area. Don't see yours? Give us a call.
Concrete patios and stamped concrete for homes across Sonoma County, poured by our own crew.
Concrete driveways, walkways, sidewalks, curbs, slabs and ADA pathways for homes and businesses, poured over a prepared base.
We stripe and restripe commercial lots across Sonoma County. Standard stalls, ADA spaces with access aisles, fire lanes, arrows and stencils.
Rich's Paving is a third generation family paving company. The family name is on the work, and the family runs the crew on every job.
Most companies do one or the other. We install both, so you get a recommendation based on your property, not on the only material a contractor happens to sell.
Paver, rollers, dump trucks and compaction equipment, run by our own crew. The schedule and the quality stay in our hands from grading to the last pass.
Clay soils that swell in the winter rain and shrink all summer. We have paved on this ground since 1988, and we build the base for what it does.
A driveway past its best years, a parking lot due for new stripes, or a gravel road that needs real grading? Call or send the form. We will come look at the job and put a clear estimate in your hands, from the family that has paved Sonoma County since 1988.
Tell us about your project and we will get right back to you.
