Denver Concrete Removal

Demo day is loud, dusty, and finished sooner than most people expect. The crew rolls in early, a saw draws the cut lines, a breaker turns your old slab into pieces a machine can pick up, and a trailer hauls it out. Come home from work and there's graded dirt where forty years of concrete used to be.

What isn't obvious from the street is how much of the day was decided before anybody pulled a trigger on a hammer. Breaking concrete is the easy part. On a Denver lot the real questions are how the machine gets to the slab, where the loaded trailer sits, and what the ground under there is going to look like once it's exposed.

The first hour sets the whole day

We walk the scope with you before anything gets loud. Where the cut line falls, which panels stay, what's getting protected. Sprinkler heads get flagged. Private lines get marked, and by private we mean the ones no locate service will find: low-voltage lighting, a gas run out to a grill, the dog fence somebody buried in 2011.

Then we set the route. Plywood or mats go down wherever a machine crosses grass, and the fence line gets padded if the gate is tight. On alley-loaded lots we stage so a neighbor can still get to their garage, because nobody wants to be the house that blocked the alley for a day. Once the route is set, the saw comes out.

What helps if you do it the night before

• Move every vehicle off the pad and out of the alley approach
• Leave the gate open, and let us know if the latch is fussy
• Flag anything buried that a utility locate won't catch
• Pull planters, hoses, and anything hanging on the fence along our route
• Plan the dog's morning around a gate that will stand open
• Point out the irrigation valve box so nobody sets a track on it
• Tell us where you'd rather the trailer sit, if you have a preference

Demo day, hour by hour

Tight lots are the job here

Access decides the price more than square footage does. A drive we can attack from the street with a full-size machine is a different animal than a back patio behind a Wash Park bungalow where the only path is a thirty-six inch gate. Narrow means smaller equipment, more passes, and sometimes hand demolition with a breaker and a wheelbarrow. It's slower. We price it honestly instead of discovering it on day one.

Older blocks in Cherry Creek, Park Hill, and University Hills give us the most of these. Central Park is friendlier, with alleys built for garages and modern setbacks. The teardown pockets around Berkeley and Sloan's Lake add a wrinkle of their own, because there's often a build going on two doors down and the alley already has somebody else's dumpster in it. We coordinate rather than complain.

You never really know what's under a slab until it's off. We've pulled up patios and found a second patio underneath, brick pavers, cinder block, a stump somebody poured around. That's why we look at the subgrade with the customer before we call the day done.Straight from the crew