Form & Pour Vacaville Concrete is a concrete contractor based in Vacaville, CA, and we pour driveways, patios, walkways, steps and footings for homeowners and builders in Winters. I've run the business since 2013, and our own crew does the work.
(707) 514-3389
A lot of our Winters calls come from older homes, where the driveway has dropped at the edges, a walkway has lifted, or a patio added years later now tips back toward the house. When we break that concrete out, we usually find a slab that was poured on dirt raked flat instead of dug out and packed, so it sank as the dirt settled.
Newer houses around town call us for other reasons, like a wider driveway, a patio off the back door, or a garage floor that was never finished right. Either way, I start every Winters job by looking at the ground and checking where the water runs before we talk about the finish.
We reply within one business day, whether you call or send the form. I come out to Winters myself to look at the job, and the estimate is free, done on site and comes with no obligation. You get it in writing, with the work spelled out line by line.
(707) 514-3389In Winters we replace driveways that have sunk or broken up, pour patios and walkways that drain away from the house, and rebuild front steps that have pulled away from the porch. We also do garage floors, stamped and decorative work, concrete retaining walls where a yard steps down, and footings and slabs for builders and property owners.
Building permits in Winters come from the city's Building and Code Enforcement Division, which also reviews plans and inspects the work, and the city wants the permit in hand before work starts, so on a job that needs one, plan review and inspection dates set our start. When a job needs a permit, we handle the application and book the inspections, and I check your address with the division instead of guessing. You can check two things on any contractor you're considering. The state licensing board requires a contractor's license on any job that needs a permit, uses hired workers or costs $1,000 or more all in, and the city requires every contractor and subcontractor working in Winters to carry a current City of Winters business license, which expires each December 31. We're licensed and insured.
Your price moves with the size of the slab, how much old concrete we break out and haul off, and how deep we dig to reach firm ground and rebuild the base. Thickness matters too, along with whether the slab gets rebar, the steel inside that holds cracks together, and the finish, since a plain broom finish, the light texture that keeps feet from slipping, costs less than stamped work. The schedule turns on any permit and inspections, the tear-out, and curing, the days new concrete needs to harden before it takes weight. Each of those shows up as its own line in your written estimate, the same way we lay out jobs in Davis and Vallejo.
I come out to Winters myself, walk the job with you and write the estimate, with the work spelled out line by line. If something can't be known until the old slab is out, like how far down the soft dirt goes, I'll tell you that instead of guessing.
The subgrade, the ground your slab sits on, is the part you can't see on day one, and it's the first thing people want to cut. I'd rather trim the finish than the base, because a nice-looking slab on soft dirt sinks and cracks like the one you're replacing.
Our own crew does the work and I run the jobs myself, so the person who wrote your estimate is there for the pour. We've done this since 2013, we're licensed and insured, and it's satisfaction guaranteed on every job. Call (707) 514-3389 to set up a walk-through.
It can need one, and I check your address with the city's building division before we start instead of guessing. The city requires a permit before a structure is built, enlarged, altered, removed, demolished or repaired, and its building and code enforcement FAQ says even work on its no-permit list still has to meet code and setback rules. When your job needs a permit, we file it and set up the inspections.
The city enforces the 2025 California Building Code, part of the state's Title 24 building standards. That's the code your slab, footings or wall gets inspected against when the job needs a permit, so it's the edition we plan permitted work around.
Your price comes from the written estimate after I've seen the lot, because the tear-out, the base and the finish I described above vary a lot from one Winters driveway to the next. When you compare estimates, ask each contractor how deep they dig and how they pack the base, since that's the usual place a low bid saves money.
You lose it from the day we break out the old slab until the new one has cured enough to take a car, and the curing is usually the longest stretch. Driving on concrete before it has hardened can crack it, so we'll tell you before the pour when you can walk on it and when you can park on it.
Usually it's the ground underneath, not the concrete. A slab poured on dirt that was raked level instead of dug out and packed settles as that dirt settles, and a slab that slopes toward the house lets water run under it and soften the base. We dig down to firm ground, pack the base and check where the water will run before we set the forms.
It may get fine cracks, and I'd rather tell you now, because concrete shrinks a little as it cures. What we control is where those cracks go, by cutting control joints, the straight grooves across a slab, early enough that the cracks follow them. The work we put into the base is what keeps the slab from dropping the way the old one did.
Start by having the underground lines marked, which you can do by calling USA North Underground Service Alert at 1-800-227-2600 before any digging. They'll show where the lines run on your property, and we want those marks down before we dig out. Past that, move cars and anything stored in the work area, and tell me about sprinkler lines or a gate the truck has to get through.
