Concrete Contractor in Redondo Beach - New Slabs for Older Homes

Permits for work on your own property come from the city's Building Division, which also handles plan review and inspections and can be reached at (310) 318-0636. Work out in the public way, toward the street, goes through the city's Engineering Division instead. If your job needs a permit, I tell you at the estimate, and we handle the application and arrange the inspections, which the city requires before any work is covered up.

Not if the project's valuation is over $50,000 or it involves two or more units, because the city doesn't let homeowners pull the permit in those cases. On the house you live in, the state's owner-builder exemption from contractor licensing applies only when all of these are true: the work is done before any sale, you lived there for the 12 months before it was finished, and you haven't used the exemption on more than two structures in any three-year period.

Yes, the city requires every business working in Redondo Beach to hold a city business license, and every contractor on a job, subcontractors included, needs a valid one before the city will issue a permit. Contractors based outside the city apply for the city's out-of-city contractor license, so it's fair to ask anyone you're considering whether theirs is current.

The state licensing board requires a license when a project needs a building permit, uses employee labor or costs $1,000 or more in labor and materials, counting all of its contracts together. A larger job can't be split into pieces under $1,000 to get around that, so I'd be wary of any offer to break up the bill. We're fully licensed and insured, and I'm glad to go over that with you at the estimate.

The city allows construction Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no work on Sundays. Work is also barred on the days Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day are observed, so we plan each pour, and the finishing that follows it, to fit inside those hours.

The best way is to get each quote in writing and compare them line by line, because a driveway's price moves with its size and thickness, whether the old slab has to be torn out and hauled away, how much digging and packing the base needs, and the finish you pick. A plain broom finish, the light texture that gives tires and shoes grip, costs less than stamped or colored work, and if one quote is much lower, look first at what it says about the base. The schedule turns on any permit and inspections, the city's work hours and curing, the days a new slab needs to gain strength before you drive on it. My estimate spells out what's included and what isn't, so you can set it beside anyone else's.