Worried the bill for tearing out your old concrete will creep up past the quote, with unexpected charges nobody mentioned?
Concrete removal is where surprise charges hide: disposal, a thicker slab than expected, steel in the old pour, base rework. So we measure on site before we give a number, and you get a fixed written price with each of those on its own line. Disposal is in the quote, not added at the end.
We break out and haul away failing driveways, patios, walkways, steps and slabs across Denver, protect your yard, and leave a graded site ready for the new pour. Removal and replacement can be one quote, or removal can be a standalone job. Licensed and insured Colorado contractor, in Denver since 2010. Call (720) 782-8086. We reply the same day during business hours.
You agreed to a price for tearing out the old slab. Then the final invoice showed extra hours, a mobilization fee, more for disposal, and you started wondering whether to dispute it. Here the price is fixed and written after we measure, each part on its own line, and anything that truly cannot be known until the slab is off is named up front along with what would change it.
There was a proposal, a deposit, a start date. Then calls and texts went unanswered and days turned into weeks. We reply the same day during business hours, and you have the written price in hand before anything is scheduled.
One contractor did not show up. The next came out, looked, and you never heard back. Call us and we set a time to measure, and the written price follows that visit.
Access, more than square footage. This surprises people. A five hundred square foot driveway with a truck able to back right up to it is a straightforward job. The same five hundred feet behind a bungalow in Denver's older neighborhoods, reached down a narrow side yard or off an alley, means smaller equipment, buggies or wheelbarrows, and that changes the labor substantially.
The bungalow neighborhoods and the tighter lots in Englewood are where this comes up most. It is also the main reason we will not quote a removal over the phone. We need to see how we get to it.
Thickness and reinforcement of the old slab. Older pours across Arvada and Lakewood from the mid century were sometimes poured heavy and with minimal steel. Heavy slabs break out slower. Slabs with a lot of mesh in them break out slower still, because everything has to be cut free rather than lifted.
How much base rework is needed. Cannot be known until the slab is off. We give you a realistic number up front and tell you in writing what would change it.
Disposal volume. Weight-based, unavoidable, and included in our quotes rather than added at the end.
Because every one of those is itemized, you can hold our price next to any other quote line by line and see where the difference is.
It is the most common story in homeowner threads about hiring any contractor. What you can hold us to:
If you have called three concrete companies and nobody came out, you are not alone, and it is usually the reason a failing driveway sits another season. Call (720) 782-8086 or use the quote form. We reply the same day during business hours, set a time to measure, and give you the price in writing after that visit.
Removal can happen most of the year. New pours are a different matter: exterior concrete in Denver runs roughly April through October, and outside that window the work needs blankets, mix adjustments and a longer schedule.
So if you call us in late October wanting a driveway removed and replaced, there is a real chance the honest sequence is removal now and pour in spring, which means bare ground over the winter. Some people are fine with that and some are not. Either way you should hear it before you commit, not after the slab is in a dumpster.
Our default recommendation in that situation is to schedule the whole job for spring unless there is a safety reason to take the old slab out sooner.
Deep ruts across the lawn, a destroyed flower bed and concrete dust everywhere are the complaints people post after a removal. We protect your yard, haul off the debris, and leave a clean, graded site.
Not always. If the slab is sound, flat and the damage is on the surface, resurfacing or a repair costs less than full removal and replacement, and we will tell you so. If it has deep cracks, one side of a crack sits higher than the other, it shows frost heave, or it has sunk, it is time to remove the old concrete and replace it with new. Sometimes only a section of the driveway needs to be removed and replaced. What we take out:
Cracking after four months usually traces back to the base, not bad luck. The replacement goes in on a compacted base with an air-entrained mix, steel or fiber reinforcement, control joints at the right spacing, and a slope away from the house. More on that under concrete driveways.
The work is backed by a warranty and done by a licensed and insured Colorado contractor, and you have a written, itemized price that says exactly what was agreed.
We'll measure, talk through your options and hand you a fixed written price. No pressure, no hidden charges.
It depends on access, the thickness of the slab, how much steel is in it, base rework and disposal, so a square foot number alone cannot tell you. Our price is itemized, so you can compare it line by line with any other quote.
If the slab is flat, sound and not heaving, resurfacing or building over it can work. If it has deep cracks, has sunk or shows frost heave, it should come out. We tell you which after we see it.
Yes. Removal includes breaking it out and hauling off the debris, and disposal is in the quote. You are left with a clean, graded site.
In most replacement quotes, yes, itemized on its own line so you can see exactly what is included.
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