A concrete driveway in Sonoma County holds up for decades when the ground under it is prepared right. We pour concrete driveways in Petaluma and the North Bay towns around it, and we have paved here since 1988. Rich's Paving is family run: Richard Stanley is a third-generation paving contractor, and his son works alongside him today. We run our own paving equipment and crew, so the same people who prepare the base also pour your slab.
We pour concrete and we lay asphalt, so we can tell you which material actually fits the driveway you have. Some driveways belong in concrete, and others hold up better with asphalt driveway paving over the same compacted base. We look at how your site drains and what will park on the surface before we recommend either one. Then we quote the concrete work, and we quote the asphalt if that turns out to be the better fit.
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We start by breaking out the old surface and cutting the subgrade down to the depth your new slab needs. The broken concrete and loose spoil leave in our own dump trucks, and crushed rock comes in behind it. That rock base gets spread in lifts and compacted with our roller until none of it moves underfoot. Forms go in last, set to a slope that carries rain off the concrete and away from your garage.
We set steel reinforcement inside the forms, pour the slab, then float and broom the surface so it keeps traction. Most residential concrete driveways are poured about four inches thick over a base of compacted crushed rock. We pour five or six inches where a work truck, an RV or a loaded trailer will park on it. New concrete takes foot traffic after about a day, and it can carry vehicles after roughly a week of curing.
Much of Petaluma and the rest of the North Bay sits on heavy adobe clay, which never holds still. It swells when the winter rain soaks in, then shrinks and pulls apart through the long dry summer here. A slab poured onto bare adobe clay rides all of that movement and cracks along its own random lines. The work that prevents that sits below the concrete, in stripped topsoil and a rock base compacted in lifts.
A good base spreads the weight of the slab and gives the clay room to move without lifting it. We also cut control joints into the concrete, spaced to match how thick the slab was poured on your site. Concrete shrinks as it cures, and those joints give the shrinking a clean line to follow across the surface. On hillside lots we set the drainage grade first, then build retaining walls where the ground has to be held.
Flatwork is everything we pour flat: walkways, sidewalks, concrete curbs, entry landings and equipment slabs. At a house that is usually a front walkway, a side path out to the yard or a shed pad. At a business it is sidewalks, concrete curbs, catch basin surrounds and ADA pathways running to the front door. ADA pathways have to hold a gentle running slope and a nearly flat cross slope, so we form them carefully.
Concrete installation is one part of a larger site, and we handle the concrete work that sits around it. For a sitting area or a decorative finish, look at our concrete patio and stamped concrete work instead. We pour concrete driveways and flatwork in Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Novato, Windsor, Sebastopol and San Rafael. Call (707) 217-0835 or request a concrete driveway estimate for your home or your commercial property.
Clear written estimates across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the North Bay.
(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 driveways across Petaluma, Santa Rosa & the North Bay. Don't see yours? Give us a call.
New asphalt driveways, replacements and resurfacing for homes across Sonoma County. We handle the grading, the base and the paving with our own equipment and crew.
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Commercial paving for parking lots at offices, apartment complexes, retail centers, business parks and wineries, including striping and ADA layout.
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We sealcoat asphalt driveways and parking lots across Sonoma County. A fresh seal coat restores the black finish and slows sun and water damage.
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Asphalt repair and patching across Sonoma County. Potholes, cracked sections, overlays and resurfacing on driveways and parking lots.
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Concrete patios and stamped concrete for homes across Sonoma County, poured by our own crew.
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Site grading and drainage systems in Petaluma and across Sonoma County. We shape the ground and give the water a place to go.
View DetailsRichard is a third-generation paving contractor, and his son works beside him on the crew. The family name is on the work, and the family answers the phone.
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.
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