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Concrete footings in Monterey Park CA - a base sized for your soil and your load

Planning an addition, a garage or a wall and need footings poured? We build them to your plans, with the steel where it's drawn.

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Do you need new concrete footings in Monterey Park?

Signature Monterey Park Concrete builds concrete footings in Monterey Park. Footings are the buried concrete that carries the weight of a wall, an addition or a garage, and each one is sized to that load and to the soil's bearing capacity, which is how much weight your soil can hold.

Most people call us when they're adding a room, a garage or a wall and the plans show footings under it. Here's the hard part first. Footings are the piece nobody sees once the walls go up, and they're the hardest to fix later, so this isn't the place to cut corners. The price turns on how long and how deep the footings run, how much steel the plans call for, and how easy it is to dig and get concrete to the spot. The schedule mostly turns on what has to be ready before we dig, which is the plans, the soil information and any permit. My written estimate puts your own figure on paper, with what's included spelled out.

Why Monterey Park owners pick us for footings

We care most about the parts you can't see once the concrete is in, like the trench, the steel and where the water goes, and we'll show you each one.

  • The owner at every estimate

    I come out to look at every footing job myself, and my crew and I are the ones who build it.

  • In business since 2013

    I learned under a boss who made me tear out anything that wasn't right, and I still work that way.

  • Fully licensed and insured

    The state licensing board counts forming, pouring and finishing concrete as concrete contractor work, and footings are exactly that.

  • Hard news before the pour

    If something about your lot or your plans worries me, I tell you plainly before we dig and explain what can be done.

  • Backed by our satisfaction guarantee

    When you're ready to talk about your footings, call (626) 597-0325 or send us the contact form.

Concrete footings we build

Your plans decide which kind goes in. We build to them, sized for the load and soil they show, and if you have no plans yet, I'll tell you who to call first.

  • New footings for an addition, garage or wall

    Walls usually sit on a continuous strip footing, with square pads or piers under posts and sometimes grade beams, concrete beams that tie the supports together at ground level. We dig to the depth drawn, clean the loose dirt out of the trench and set the steel where the plans put it, because a footing poured on loose dirt settles right along with it.

  • Footings that run through existing concrete

    When a new footing has to pass under an old slab, patio or driveway, we start with concrete cutting so we get a clean, straight edge. That way we dig out only what has to go and leave the rest of your concrete sound.

  • Old footings that have sunk

    If an old footing has settled and the walls or floors above it are cracking or out of level, pouring new footings beside it isn't always the answer. Take a look at our foundation raising work too, and I'll tell you which fix fits what I see.

What happens when you call about footings in Monterey Park?

We plan a footing job around your plans and any permit it needs, so the digging starts once the paperwork is ready and not before.

  1. Call or send the form

    Call (626) 597-0325 or send the contact form with your address and what you're building, and we'll get back to you to set up a visit.

  2. I visit your lot

    I come out, measure, and look at drainage and access, because where the water runs and how we get concrete to the spot both shape the job.

  3. Your written estimate

    I write up an estimate that spells out what's included, so you can see what you're paying for and line it up against other quotes.

  4. Permits, pour and walkthrough

    Once you say yes, we pull any permits the job needs, set a date, and my crew and I build it before I walk it with you.

Questions about a step? Call and talk it through.

(626) 597-0325

Footing questions we hear most

How much do concrete footings cost?

Installed residential strip footings across the US usually cost about $5 to $25 per linear foot. That's a national range, not our price, and where a job lands depends on depth, steel, digging and access. My estimate gives you the figure for your footings in Monterey Park.

How do I compare quotes for concrete footings?

Compare quotes that list the same parts, because an installed footing price usually bundles the concrete, the labor, the digging and the forms. If one quote leaves out the digging or the forms, it isn't cheaper, it's just shorter.

Do I need an architect or engineer for footings in Monterey Park?

You do unless your project is a wood-framed home designed strictly to the conventional rules in the city's residential code. For everything else, Monterey Park's plan check requirements call for plans by a California-registered architect or engineer. Bring one in before the plans go to plan check, the city's review of your drawings.

Do concrete footings in California need rebar?

Most likely, yes. One code summary reads state code as requiring rebar, the steel bars that keep concrete from pulling apart when the ground moves, near the top and bottom of continuous footings in the higher earthquake categories. It adds that this covers most construction in California, so plan on steel in your footings.

How do I find out what soil is under my lot before building footings?

Start with the soil, before anyone designs the footings, because Monterey Park plan check requires your plans to show the type of soil and how much weight it can bear. The footing size comes from that, so a guess at the start can mean a redesign later.

What causes concrete footings to crack or sink?

Usually it's a footing poured on soft soil or loose fill that was never packed, so it settles as the dirt does. Water makes it worse when it collects along the house instead of running away, because it softens the soil under the footing. That's why where the water goes matters as much as the concrete.

Permits and soil for concrete footings in Monterey Park

The city requires a building permit to build any building or structure, and its permit list names jobs like garages and patios but doesn't name footings on their own. If your footings carry a garage, an addition or another structure, they're part of that project. If they stand alone, the list doesn't settle it, so ask the city through its building permits page. When a job needs a city or county permit, we pull it ourselves and plan the schedule around the wait. Bigger site work can add one more, because the Public Works Department wants a separate grading permit once the digging and filling to change the grade go past 50 cubic yards, which is usually far more than a footing trench moves.

Soil matters more than most people expect. If your lot sits in a Geologic Hazard Zone, the city's plan check list adds a soils report and a geologic hazard study, and the state warns that weak soil or rock under a property can fail in an earthquake and damage what's built on it unless the grading and construction take proper precautions. We're based in Monterey Park and work across the cities around it, and on footing jobs in Alhambra and Montebello we let the soils information size the footing, not a guess.

Ask Signature Monterey Park Concrete for an estimate

Email your plans or soils report to estimates@concretecontractormontereypark.com before the visit, so I've read the footing details by the time I'm on your lot.

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