Concrete Contractor in Bloomington, CA - Solid Slabs for Rural Lots and New Tracts

You get it from San Bernardino County's Building and Safety office, at a local office or through the county's EZ Online Permitting site, because Bloomington is unincorporated and the county issues permits to build, alter or repair there, grading work included. The county wants every permit in hand before work starts, and it holds work to the state building code with its own changes, under the 2025 edition since January 1, 2026. When your job needs one, we check with the office early and work through the paperwork with you.

Ask Building and Safety about your driveway before anything gets dug, because the county's permits cover grading work as well as building. The county's code spares a driveway a separate planning permit only when it doesn't need a building or grading permit, and any other permit still applies. I check with the office early so the answer is settled before we pour.

The county's permit list names retaining walls over 4 feet tall, measured from the bottom of the footing, not from the ground you see. A wall that looks short above the dirt can pass that mark once you count the footing, and block walls and fences over 6 feet need a permit too. Every wall also has to keep the county's setbacks, the required distance from property lines, so we measure all of it at the estimate.

Yes, once the job's labor and materials together come to $1,000 or more, or the job needs a building permit or brings on extra workers, the contractor needs a license from the Contractors State License Board. The county licenses only a few kinds of businesses in its unincorporated areas, so the state license is the one to check before you hire. We're fully licensed and insured.

Your price comes from the driveway's size, the base work your ground needs, tearing out any old slab and the finish you pick, and I put all of it in a written estimate after I've seen the site. A long rural drive takes more digging, base and forming than a short tract-home drive, and a broom finish, the light brushed texture that gives tires and shoes grip, costs less than stamped or decorative work. The base is the one place I won't cut, because nobody sees it on day one and it decides whether the drive settles and cracks later.

You can walk on a new driveway well before you can drive on it, because concrete keeps gaining strength for days while it cures, and a car on it too soon can crack it. When we finish, I tell you the day it's ready for feet and the day it's ready for your car, so nobody drives on it early. Plan to park on the street or somewhere else on the lot through that wait.