Tear-Out & Demo
Controlled removal of old, damaged, or failing concrete on Park City lots — with full debris haul-off and a clean site ready for your next pour.
Clean removal
Cracked driveways, heaved sidewalks, settled patios, scaled slabs. They're trip hazards, they send water the wrong direction, and they get in the way of whatever you're building next. Tear-out pulls the problem out at the root.
Summit Concrete accepts demolition estimate requests across Park City, Deer Valley, Promontory, Old Town, and the rest of Summit County. A project-specific removal scope should address breaking, haul-off, protection of adjacent work, subgrade condition, and any relationship to a later replacement pour. No turnaround time is established by this page.
Single driveway panel, whole patio, or a commercial parking slab — same approach, different equipment.
What we remove
Our process
Document thickness, reinforcement type, proximity to structures, underground utilities, and equipment access. Any eventual project scope should state which conditions were verified and which remain unresolved.
Adjacent landscaping, retaining walls, sprinkler lines, and snow-melt loops get flagged and protected. Boundaries marked, barriers up, nothing gets hit that wasn't supposed to.
Bobcat with breaker for driveways, excavator for commercial slabs, hand tools for tight Old Town alleys. Right tool for the lot, broken in manageable sections.
Broken concrete, rebar, and wire mesh load out the same day and haul to a recycling facility. Nothing stacked in the corner of your yard for the neighbors to look at.
Subgrade gets graded to proper elevation and slope. If a new pour follows this week, we prep the base to our forming standards — not "close enough for next guy."
If a replacement pour follows immediately, we roll into it. If not, the site is left clean, safe, and ready for whatever trade is next. Most clients bundle removal and replacement on one schedule.
When tear-out is the right call
Not every slab needs to come out. When the settlement is under an inch and the cracks are cosmetic, mudjacking or panel replacement beats a full tear-out. But there's a point where patching becomes more expensive than replacing — and in Park City, altitude and freeze-thaw push that point earlier than most builders expect.
Tear-out thresholds
When to replace vs. repair
Settlement limit
1″
Past an inch of settlement on a residential slab, mudjacking stops being the right answer and tear-out pays back.
Crack width limit
⅜″
Hairline cracks are cosmetic. Cracks wide enough to catch a heel or hold ice need the slab out.
Surface scaling
¼″+ depth
Scaling deeper than a quarter-inch means the top surface layer is compromised and re-sealing won't save it.
Debris recycling
100%
Concrete, rebar, and wire mesh all haul to a recycling facility. Zero landfill disposal on standard tear-outs.
Haul timing
Scope
Any haul-off timing and site condition should be stated in a project-specific agreement.
Replacement timing
Project
A later replacement depends on its own approved scope, site readiness, inspection, weather, material, and schedule inputs.
Where We Work
Estimate requests may describe tear-out or replacement needs for Park City properties, including Old Town, Jeremy Ranch, and Glenwild. Location or apparent age alone does not establish condition, method, scope, project acceptance, or availability.
Send the location, removal limits, access notes, adjacent-work concerns, and any replacement context. Submitting an estimate request records your project details for review. It does not establish project acceptance, a response time, a site visit, a written scope, a price, or a schedule.