Concrete removal.
Concrete is the heaviest thing we haul and the easiest thing to recycle. A driveway, a patio, a garage slab or a foundation wall gets broken with a breaker on the machine or a jackhammer where a machine cannot go, loaded into a bin rated for the weight, and sent to a crusher instead of a landfill. The number is about weight and access, not square footage alone.
On the ticket.
Driveways, walkways, patios, steps and porches
Garage and shed slabs, equipment pads, pool decks
Foundation walls and footings after a tear-down
Rebar and mesh cut and sorted for scrap
Loaded into weight-rated bins; concrete sent for crushing
Sub-base left graded or removed for the new pour, your call
Lines, not guesses.
| Driver | What we look at |
|---|---|
| Area and thickness | Square footage and how thick the slab is. |
| Reinforcing | [Kam confirms premium] |
| Machine access | Whether a breaker on a machine reaches it or it is broken by hand. |
| Bins and tipping | Concrete bins are weight-limited; [Kam confirms rate] |
The number comes from a site walk. Thickness, reinforcing and whether a machine can reach it decide it.
Paper first.
- Removing a slab, driveway or patio needs no permit in most municipalities.
- A new driveway or a widened one usually needs municipal approval; that is the paving contractor's step, not ours.
- Ontario One Call locates before breaking anything near buried services.
- Foundation walls come out under the demolition permit for the building they held up.
The plates on every truck: WSIB, insurance, demolition permits, asbestos survey, utility locates, crew training.
Weight. A bin of concrete hits the truck's limit long before it is full, so concrete goes in dedicated bins with their own rate. The site walk counts the loads.
Yes, with jackhammers and a hand carry or a conveyor. It costs more per foot than machine work, and we say so up front.
To a crusher, where it becomes aggregate for road base and new concrete. Very little of it goes to landfill.
If the new pour needs a fresh base, yes. If the old base is sound, it can stay and save you a load. Your paving contractor decides; we do either.