Old concrete beside a Hebron house needs Concrete Demolition in Hebron

When a crew treats the old walk like open ground, the house gets damaged. We’ve seen a saw track into a foundation wall. A breaker worked right against brick left hairline cracks in the mortar afterward. A bucket that is too wide takes a downspout and a corner of the stoop with the slab. Dust gets under a door that nobody sealed. Old caulk that tied the slab to the siding rips a strip of paint off on the way out. We’ve pulled pieces that were locked under a meter box or an outdoor faucet, and those come out ugly if nobody looked first. That is ordinary damage from a careless tear-out on a Hebron house.

We keep running into Hebron houses where the drive or the front walk sits tight to the foundation, the stoop, or the garage apron. That concrete often sits in the daily path from the car to the kitchen door. People are in those rooms while the work happens. A failed slab there still sits on an occupied lot. After a winter the surface scales, joints open, and a corner drops. The trip hazard is what gets the phone call. Under that, the slab may already be pitching water toward the wall. The same crew that is going to pour the new concrete has to get the old stuff out without chewing the house. Utilities and the slope away from the wall have to survive the tear-out too.

Failed drives next to occupied rooms and Concrete Demolition in Hebron

People call us about slabs that have dropped, heaved, or broken into pieces along the side of a house. The walk to the door is the one that bothers people first, because they use it every day. On Hebron lots we work, the drive often shares an edge with that walk, and both of them go at once. Winter freeze-thaw and salt break the surface down. Water sits in the joints. We’ve pulled up slabs that were already tilting toward the foundation.

The failed concrete is already part of the living house. Concrete Demolition in Hebron, for us, is the first half of replacing a drive or a walk that sits against occupied rooms. Cabe’s Concrete has been family owned and operated since 2006, and this is the work we show up to do before we form and pour. We’ve had to clean up jagged edges against siding before we could set forms, so we like to own the tear-out from the start.

Concrete Demolition in Hebron before we form and pour

Close work starts with looking at what the slab is touching. Siding, brick, a meter, a hose bib, the garage threshold, sometimes an AC pad. We mark those. Locates get called before we cut. Then we saw the slab into pieces we can lift, and we keep the saw off the house. The breaker stays on the field side of that cut. Vibration stays out of the rooms people are sitting in. The last foot against the foundation is hand work. A machine is fine out in the open. Next to paint and brick we switch to a saw and a smaller breaker. We’ve spent a long afternoon on a short walk because the slab was poured against the stoop and every lift had to come straight up.

We haul the broken concrete out the same day when the schedule and the truck allow it. An occupied Hebron house doesn’t need a pile of rubble against the siding overnight. The subgrade gets looked at while it is open. If the old slab was holding water against the foundation, that is the moment to re-set the pitch so the new pour sheds away from the wall. Our goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible leaving a professional and quality job, and on a tight side yard the demo and the prep have to stay tidy. This Concrete Demolition in Hebron is already part of a replacement drive or walk.

What the house needs from Concrete Demolition in Hebron

Dust control is plastic and tape on the close doors, and water on the saw. We’ve wiped dust off a kitchen table after a tear-out that skipped the plastic. Covering the near side of the house is part of the work. So is watching the siding and the brick as the slab comes up, because old concrete can be locked under a lip of mortar or caulk. Flower beds and the little strip of grass along a Hebron walk get plywood if we can save them. If we can’t save them, we say so before we start.

The page on our concrete demolition work is the tear-out side of that sequence, the part against the house. After the old concrete is gone, we’re looking at soil, not a finished drive. Forms go in along the house with a pitch we can stand behind. Then we pour. Concrete Demolition in Hebron sits on the same ticket as that pour because the two steps share the same tight edge. People in Hebron, Indiana call us for the new slab they want against the house.