Concrete demolition is breaking out and hauling off concrete: driveways, patios, sidewalks, slabs, foundations and pool decks. DiamondBack Demolition handles concrete removal for residential and commercial customers across San Antonio and South Texas.
Concrete is the job people most often try to do themselves and most often stop halfway through. The breaking is manageable. It is the weight, the rebar and the disposal that end the weekend.
Concrete runs roughly 150 pounds per cubic foot. A four inch driveway slab of average size is measured in tons, not loads. Most of the cost in concrete removal is not the breaking, it is moving the material and paying for it to be disposed of.
Reinforcement holds broken slabs together in sheets and has to be cut out as the work goes. It also changes what the disposal site will take and how the material gets handled.
A four inch patio and an eight inch commercial slab are different jobs. Nobody knows their own thickness until it is broken, so we plan for what is likely and confirm on site.
Plumbing, sewer lines, electrical conduit, irrigation, gas lines and post tension cable in some slabs. Anything under or in the concrete gets identified before breaking starts. Post tension slabs in particular are not something to guess at.
A backyard patio behind a narrow gate is a different operation from a driveway at the street. It is doable either way, it just changes the method.
Old cracked driveways coming out for a replacement. Patios removed for a new outdoor space. Sidewalks that have heaved. Slabs left behind by a shed, a carport or a mobile home. Foundations from a structure that is already gone.
South Texas soil moves, and around San Antonio that means slabs crack and lift over time. When a driveway has reached the point of being patched every couple of years, taking it out and starting over is usually the cheaper path.
Parking areas, loading aprons, curbing, equipment pads, interior slabs and footings, and site concrete ahead of new construction. Commercial concrete is thicker and more heavily reinforced, and the site usually has to stay partially usable while the work happens. Both of those get planned before we start.
If the answer to half of that is "no idea," send photos and we will work it out.
Concrete out, material hauled, area cleaned. If something new is going in, we can leave the subgrade in the condition your concrete contractor needs. Ask them what they want and pass it along.
Have concrete that needs to come out? Call 210-999-0233 with the dimensions or send photos for an estimate.
