Slab foundation building in Hesperia CA - a base poured to your engineer's plans

Reinforced concrete slabs in the San Bernardino area usually cost about $8 to $13 per square foot. That's the going rate for the area, not our price, and your own number moves with the slab's size, its type and how much base work the lot needs. I'll give you yours once I've seen the lot.

Yes. The City of Hesperia requires a building permit to be issued before construction work begins, and only you or your licensed contractor or authorized agent can get it. If your lot falls under San Bernardino County instead, its permit list includes new buildings over 120 square feet, garages and grading of 100 cubic yards or more, and other work may need one too. We pull the permit as your licensed contractor, and if we're unsure, we ask the building office before we start.

It can be, and it's worth asking before anything is formed. National guidance from the post-tensioning industry says these slabs, which hold the concrete under a built-in squeeze, are a cost-efficient answer on ground that shrinks and swells, and on stable ground they're used to reduce cracking and cut down on control joints. Your engineer and your lot decide it, and if the design calls for footings instead, that's our foundation installation work.

Slabs are poured early because cooler morning air gives the crew time to place and finish before the surface dries out. Wind, low humidity and sun dry fresh concrete fast and speed up setting at any time of year, especially in dry climates, so national guidance calls for quick placing and finishing and early morning pours whenever possible. That's why we plan the pour around the day's conditions.

For concrete placed in hot weather, one industry group's guidance says to keep curing it for at least 3 days, so plan that time into your schedule. Letting a slab dry out too soon weakens it. When your framers can start depends on your plans and the weather, and I'll go over it with you before the pour.

Start with a licensed concrete contractor, since California's contractor license board defines that trade as forming, pouring, placing and finishing concrete work. The state's minor work exemption, now $1,000 instead of $500, only covers work that needs no permit, done by someone with no employees on the job, so it doesn't fit a permitted slab. We're fully licensed and insured.