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Serving Rancho Palos Verdes, CA and surrounding areas. (424) 447-1592
Rancho Palos Verdes Concrete serves Inglewood with driveway replacement, concrete cutting, slab work, and flatwork repair. We work on the postwar bungalows and ranch homes that make up most of this city, and we understand how the expansive clay soil and decades of deferred maintenance affect concrete here differently than in newer suburban neighborhoods.
On older Inglewood properties, removing a damaged driveway panel or walkway section without damaging adjacent flatwork requires a clean, controlled cut first. Our concrete cutting work handles partial slab removal on tight residential lots, garage apron cuts before replacement, and utility access cuts on properties where underground work has to happen without disturbing the surrounding slab.
Most Inglewood driveways were poured between the 1940s and 1960s and have been through 60 to 80 years of clay soil expansion and contraction. By this point, most original slabs are cracked, shifted, and creating drainage or trip-hazard problems at the curb approach. Replacing the full driveway on a small urban lot - including base correction for the clay soil below - is the right call more often than patching individual panels.
Inglewood is an active market for ADU additions and garage conversions, and many of these projects require a new slab foundation poured to current building code on soil that has been moving for decades. Getting the sub-base right for Inglewood's clay soil conditions - proper compaction, vapor barrier, and reinforcement sizing - determines how the slab holds up over the next 30 to 40 years.
Backyard patios on Inglewood's small lots are often the only real outdoor living space a homeowner has. Pouring a durable patio on an urban lot with clay soil requires proper drainage planning - otherwise water pools against the house during winter storms and the slab settles within a few seasons. We address sub-base and slope before the pour, not after.
Detached garages on Inglewood properties - many of them accessed from a rear alley - often still have their original 1950s slab. These floors are typically thin, cracked, and uneven, and the surrounding soil movement has left many with a notable slope or raised crack through the center. Replacing the garage floor with a properly reinforced slab extends the utility of the structure for storage, parking, or conversion.
Inglewood's dense residential streets have sidewalk panels that reflect the same postwar construction timeline as the homes - original flatwork lifted by tree roots and cracked by soil movement that has compounded over decades. Replacing damaged panels keeps the property in compliance and eliminates the trip hazards that city sidewalk inspections flag on older residential streets.
Inglewood packs about 109,000 residents into under 11 square miles, making it one of the denser cities in the Los Angeles area. Almost all of its residential housing was built between the late 1930s and mid-1960s. That means most of the concrete flatwork across the city - driveways, garage floors, walkways, patio slabs - is now between 60 and 85 years old, and it was poured to standards that did not account for the expansive clay soils that underlie much of the Los Angeles basin. Clay soils expand when wet and contract when dry, and the cumulative effect of that seasonal movement over six or seven decades has cracked, shifted, and settled most of the original concrete in the city. This is not unusual maintenance - it is the predictable outcome of that material on that soil over that much time.
The growth happening around SoFi Stadium and the Hollywood Park development has pushed Inglewood home values well above $600,000, and homeowners across the city are putting more money into their properties than they have in years. That investment is worth protecting. At the same time, a large share of Inglewood homes have gone through periods of deferred maintenance - particularly on exterior concrete and foundation elements - that mean the actual scope of needed work is often larger than what is visible on the surface. Getting an honest assessment of what the concrete needs, rather than a patch that fails again in two years, requires a contractor who understands how clay soil, winter rain, and fall Santa Ana winds interact with concrete that is pushing 70 or 80 years old.
Our crew works throughout Inglewood regularly, and we understand the local conditions that affect concrete work here. Permits for residential concrete projects in Inglewood are handled through the City of Inglewood's Department of Public Works. We confirm permit requirements at the estimate stage and manage the application process for any project that needs one - that does not fall on you.
Inglewood's residential neighborhoods vary in character more than the city's compact footprint might suggest. The Morningside Park neighborhood in the northeast has wider streets, more tree cover, and some of the city's larger single-family homes - owners there tend to invest in quality finishes and are more likely to be doing full driveway or patio replacements rather than patch work. The neighborhoods along Century Boulevard near LAX and closer to downtown have a denser, more urban feel with smaller lots and more multi-family properties mixed in. The streets near the Kia Forum on Manchester Boulevard and the newer development around SoFi Stadium are in transition, with renovation activity picking up as property values rise across the city.
We also serve homeowners in Rancho Palos Verdes to the south and Hawthorne to the west. All are served from our base on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and we can typically schedule an estimate visit within one business day of your call.
Reach us by phone or through the contact form, and we will schedule an on-site visit in Inglewood within one business day. A description of what you are seeing is enough - we do not need measurements or drawings from you in advance.
We walk the property, assess the soil conditions and existing concrete, and provide a written itemized estimate at no charge. We address cost questions and permit requirements at this visit so you have a full picture before deciding anything.
We remove the old concrete, correct the sub-base for Inglewood's clay soil conditions, and pour the new slab. Most driveway and flatwork jobs on a standard Inglewood lot are completed in one to two days. You do not need to be present during the work itself.
After the pour we clean up the site and go over the cure timeline with you - typically three to five days for pedestrian use and five to seven days before vehicle traffic. We cover what to watch for in the first season so the new concrete gets off to the right start.
We serve all of Inglewood - from Morningside Park to the streets near SoFi Stadium - with free on-site estimates and responses within one business day.
(424) 447-1592Inglewood is a mid-size city of about 109,000 residents just southwest of downtown Los Angeles, bordering LAX to the west and sitting close to the South Bay cities along the coast. The city is almost entirely built out, with a dense mix of single-family bungalows, small apartment buildings, and commercial corridors that give it a distinctly urban feel. Its most recognizable neighborhoods are Morningside Park in the northeast, with wider streets and some of the city's better-maintained owner-occupied homes, and the areas around Manchester Boulevard and Century Boulevard that run closer to the airport. The city has been in a period of significant investment since SoFi Stadium opened in 2020, bringing the LA Rams and LA Chargers to the Hollywood Park development on the city's west side and drawing new construction and rising property values throughout the area.
The Kia Forum on Manchester Boulevard has been an Inglewood institution for decades, and the city's identity has long been tied to the South Bay rather than the LA metro. Residential streets throughout the city carry the character of their postwar construction period - block after block of stucco bungalows and ranch homes on modest lots, most of them with the same concrete driveways, garage floors, and sidewalk panels installed when the homes were built. Nearby Hawthorne to the west shares the same postwar housing stock, and Gardena to the south is another city in the same corridor where we work regularly.
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