Concrete cutting in Junction City KS - straight, clean cuts right where you need them

Most calls start with a slab that has to change. A broken stretch of driveway has to come out before a new pour, a line has to run under a patio, or an old walk needs a clean edge before a new sidewalk ties in. The price moves with how many linear feet we cut, how thick the slab is, whether there's steel inside it, and whether you want the pieces broken up and hauled away. The schedule mostly turns on whether the cut touches public ground, since the city wants a permit for that first, and on the weather if new concrete follows. I measure and walk the site with you, then send a written estimate.

Before the saw goes in, we talk about scanning the slab for steel or buried lines, because rebar, the steel bars that hold a slab together, and anything running through the concrete change where and how we cut. We also settle how the cut pieces will come out, since that decides how big we make each section. Then I snap the lines, and we cut wet with water on the blade the whole way. The water and dust turn into slurry, a gray mud, so we vacuum and contain it to keep it out of your yard and the drains. Last, we break up and haul whatever we agreed to take and rinse down the work area.

A lot of cutting leads straight into new concrete. When part of a driveway has sunk or broken up, we saw it out along a straight line so the new concrete driveway butts against a clean edge, and when you're adding on out back, we cut the old slab back so the new patio starts from sound concrete.

If the cut is on public ground, like the curb at your driveway approach or the street itself, Junction City requires a Right of Way permit before the saw goes in. Whoever asks for that permit pays the full cost to put the curb, gutter or street back to city specifications, or pays the city's estimate to have the city replace the pavement, so I note that on the estimate when a cut runs near the street. The city's building permit list names demolition and remodels but doesn't mention concrete cutting, so for a cut on your own property I check with the city before we start. When a permit is needed we pull it first and call in the inspections, which go to the city's Public Works office for right of way work and to Kaw Valley Engineering for driveways and sidewalks.

We're based in Junction City and work in the cities around it. Many cuts here are at the end of a driveway where it meets the curb or along a sidewalk panel that's heaved, often in older slabs where you don't know what's inside until you look, and we run into the same thing on jobs in Manhattan and Abilene.