South Holland Illinois Concrete Demolition Companies

People have asked us what comes next once a driveway has heaved past patching. Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland start that job by breaking the old slab out. Because of that, a new pour can’t sit on concrete that has already lifted. A lot of what we pull up went down with the house, in the years after the war. Those slabs have taken salt and hard freezes for a long time.

South Holland, Illinois still has plenty of those mid-century lots. The drive is often one straight run from the street to the garage. But many are one-car or two-car, with a service walk along the side. When the slab rocks at the garage lip, a patch only lasts a season. We still do patch work when the slab is sound. But wide joints and a rocking edge mean the patch won’t hold. Then the same edge lifts again. So the talk turns to a full tear-out.

How Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland Break Out a Worn Slab

We mark what stays and what goes before the breaker comes out. The garage floor usually stays. A sidewalk we aren’t replacing stays too. Then we saw-cut a clean line where the old driveway meets those pieces. After that, we break the slab into chunks a machine can lift.

On a South Holland lot the space is often tight between the house and the next yard. So we bring a skid steer or a small excavator that can work in a narrow swing. We have pulled up slabs that were thin in the middle and had no steel in them at all. Because the pieces are heavy, we haul them the same day. We don’t leave a pile in the parkway.

Under the slab we look at the stone and the soil. When the base is muddy, we take that soft material out too. Then we take out ground that has pushed up through the stone. A new driveway on a weak base will crack along the same line. For example, we have opened drives where the center had settled. We found the stone missing in a strip. The demolition half covers the breakout and the haul-off. We also check the ground under the old pour.

Concrete removal on these houses often runs past the main drive. Service walks and the garage apron often heaved with the drive. An upper walk to the door can be in the same shape. Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland fold those into the same tear-out when they are past patching.

We saw-cut a curb we can save, and we leave it in place. When a curb has tipped, we pull it with the slab. Then we form a new one with the replacement pour.

What Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland Haul Off Before a New Pour

Our trucks take the broken concrete off the property. Load by load, we clear the drive down to the base we are keeping. When that base failed, we go down to soil. Then we grade what remains so water can leave the new slab. In South Holland, Illinois, meltwater and rain both collect on a flat pour. A low spot in front of the garage is where we have seen cracking start again. Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland include that haul-off and grade work in the tear-out. A full drive fills several truck loads, so we build that time into the tear-out.

After the demolition, the replacement is its own pour. That new slab is residential concrete. We include the garage apron and any service walk we removed. We treat the full sequence as tear out and replace. Some owners have kept the old width. But a wider drive helps when two cars need room to pass. We have formed that extra width on postwar lots where the old edges had broken into the yard. We form new curbs with the pour when we pulled the old ones.

When the old postwar slab is gone, Concrete Demolition Companies in South Holland move on to the new pour. Our goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible, leaving a professional and quality job. We’ll work on the layout with you. Because we source the mix ourselves, we know what is going in the ground.

Cabe’s Concrete is a family owned and operated company. Our doors opened back in 2006. Because we cover the Tri-State area, South Holland is part of that reach. Our staff are friendly and confident in the work, because they have a wealth of experience in the field. More background sits on our About Us page. You can look through finished tear-outs in the photo gallery. The breakout side of the visit sits with our concrete demolition companies work. On pour day we set the garage joint so the new concrete meets the floor that stayed.