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Fam Vans commercial
concrete aprons,
Costa Mesa

Commercial

Overview

Two concrete aprons at the roll-up vehicle doors of Fam Vans' commercial building in Costa Mesa. Each was formed against the existing asphalt and concrete lot and graded from the door threshold out to it, then placed, hand floated and troweled, jointed and given a broom finish. EMAE & Sons crews placed and finished the concrete themselves, and the yard was washed down the same afternoon.

Location
Costa Mesa, California
Client
Commercial
Work
Two roll-up door aprons
Photographed
24 January 2026

Scope of work

  • Cast-in-place concrete aprons at two roll-up vehicle doors
  • Formed and edged against the existing asphalt and concrete lot
  • Graded from the door threshold out to the lot surface
  • Concrete placed, hand floated and steel troweled
  • Control joints tooled while the slab was still plastic
  • Broom finish for traction under vehicle traffic
  • Wash-down of the surrounding yard on completion

On site

A concrete finisher in an EMAE & Sons Inc. hi-vis vest kneeling on the freshly placed apron at Costa Mesa, hand troweling the surface, with a fresno and edging tools resting on the slab beside him
Hand finishing the bay apron, with the fresno set down alongside
Two EMAE & Sons finishers working the same wet concrete apron at Costa Mesa, one troweling at the center and one floating the edge against the formed curb
Two finishers on the slab, working out from the formed edge
The completed concrete apron at Costa Mesa running from the parking lot up to the roll-up door threshold, joints tooled and edges run, meeting broken asphalt at its outer edge
The same apron an hour later, jointed and edged to the threshold
The second, wider concrete apron at Costa Mesa with a broom finish and a tooled joint grid, bounded by a poured curb, with a crew member squeegeeing wash water off the lot behind it
The second apron, broom finished and jointed, during wash-down

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Questions about work like this

Does EMAE & Sons pour its own concrete?

Yes. EMAE & Sons Inc places and finishes concrete flatwork with its own crews rather than subcontracting it. On a commercial apron job in Costa Mesa the firm's own finishers placed, hand floated, troweled, jointed and broom finished the slabs, and the firm holds Class A General Engineering alongside Class B General Building.

What is a concrete apron?

EMAE & Sons Inc builds concrete aprons as the section of slab between a building's vehicle door and the parking lot or street it opens onto. An apron takes the wheel loads of everything entering the building and carries water away from the threshold, so it is formed to grade, jointed to control cracking and usually broom finished for traction. The firm placed two at a commercial building in Costa Mesa.

Why is a concrete apron broom finished rather than smooth?

EMAE & Sons Inc broom finishes concrete that carries vehicles or foot traffic outdoors. Dragging a broom across the surface while it is still plastic leaves fine ridges that give tires and shoes grip when the slab is wet, where a steel-troweled surface would be slick. The aprons the firm placed in Costa Mesa were finished this way.

Does EMAE & Sons work in Orange County?

Yes. EMAE & Sons Inc is based in Thousand Oaks and works across Los Angeles and Ventura counties and into Orange County. The firm has placed commercial concrete aprons at a building in Costa Mesa, and it holds California license #1107216, Class A, B and C-36.

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EMAE & Sons Inc holds California license #1107216, Class A, B and C-36. Tell us what the site is and we will tell you what it needs.

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