Masonry Contractor in Eastvale, CA - Block Walls and Repairs That Fit Your Home

Eastvale sits in a liquefaction zone, an area where the ground can go soft and shift when a strong earthquake shakes it. That's true of the city as a whole and isn't a finding about your lot, so it doesn't tell me what's under your yard, but it's why we don't skimp on footings and steel. A block wall is heavy and stands on a narrow footing, so when the ground under it moves, the wall cracks or leans. We dig the footing to suit the wall and run steel from it up through the block, then fill the hollow cores around the steel with grout so the wall holds together as one piece.

Most of the houses we work on here are newer tract homes, with block walls between the yards and stucco on the house. The trouble usually starts low on a wall, where sprinklers soak the base every morning and the summer heat dries it out again by afternoon. We look at where the water's hitting before we fix any joints, because new mortar won't last if the same sprinkler keeps spraying it.

Permits and inspections for home projects in Eastvale go through the Building Safety Team in the city's Community Development Department, which checks plans against the construction codes California adopts. When your job needs a permit, we pull it, set up the inspections and meet the inspector at your house, and if we're not sure what applies, we ask the city before we start. That review usually sets the start date more than our own calendar does. The city's building forms page also lists guidelines for freestanding block walls, and I read those before I lay out a new wall here. We're licensed and fully insured, and you're welcome to ask us for proof of both before you sign anything.

What moves the price on a job here is mostly the length and height of the wall, how deep the footing goes, whether an old wall has to come down and be hauled off first, and how easy it is to get block and a mixer into the backyard. The schedule turns on the permit, if there is one, and on how much old mortar turns out to be bad once we open the joints. I put all of it in a written estimate after I've seen your yard. Eastvale is a short drive from our base in Corona, and we do the same wall and repair work in Norco and Chino Hills.

Eastvale is mostly homes, street after street of newer tract houses, many of them two stories on tight lots, with shopping centers along the main roads and very little old housing. It sits between Jurupa Valley and Chino, and the calls we get here lean less toward old brick chimneys and more toward block walls, pavers and backyard projects.

Most of the city is flat, which makes digging easy, but the soft-ground point above means we pay close attention to what a footing sits on. On a newer house the job is usually about fitting new masonry to what the builder left behind, matching the block, the stucco color and the line of the yard.