Concrete cutting in San Gabriel CA - clean, straight cuts right where you need them

Most calls start with one bad spot, like a sunken panel in the driveway, a cracked patio corner, or a new drain that has to cross the garage floor. The price moves with how thick the concrete is and whether there's steel in it, how many feet of cut or how many holes you need, whether the work is indoors, and whether you want the pieces hauled off or left in place. The schedule mostly turns on whether the slab needs a scan for buried steel and lines first, and whether a bin has to sit on the street. Your estimate gives you the figure for your own job once I've seen it on site.

On the walk-through I check how thick the concrete is and whether there's steel in it, and we mark the cut lines right on the slab together so we're both looking at the same job. We ask you to show us any private lines out back, like to a spa, fire pit or barbecue, because the utility marks only the lines it owns, usually up to the meter, and nobody else marks yours. On the day, our crew sets up the saw that suits the surface and cuts to the marks, and if hauling is part of your job, we break out the panels and load them out. Then we rinse and sweep the area, and we keep the mess and noise off the neighbors' side as best we can.

A cut is often the first step of driveway building or patio construction, and when a section sank, the dirt under it is usually why. So before we pour, we dig out the soft subgrade, the ground the slab sits on, and pack a new base. That base is buried on day one and it's the first thing people want to trim from the budget, but I'd spend there before I'd spend on a fancy finish, because a nice surface on loose dirt cracks and drops again.

If your cut touches the public right of way, the strip the city controls along the street, which usually takes in the sidewalk and the end of the driveway, the city's Engineering Division issues the permit for that work. A debris bin follows the same line, so it needs a city permit if it sits in the right of way, while a large metal bin set completely on your own property doesn't. Before work starts, we settle with you who will handle any permit the city asks for and what it needs from us, so the saw and the bin aren't held up on the day.

For walk-behind saws, California's workplace safety rule names a saw that keeps water feeding the blade, and cutting wet leaves a gray slurry that has to be caught before it runs down the drive. One cutting trade group's sample spec has the owner supply the water and power and has the slurry plan agreed before work starts, and we settle both with you when you book. We're based in San Gabriel and work in the cities around it across the San Gabriel Valley, and we see the same driveway and patio cuts on jobs in Alhambra and Rosemead.