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 handles demolition across Park City, Deer Valley, Promontory, Old Town, and the rest of Summit County. We break the concrete, haul it to a recycling facility, protect what stays (established aspens, retaining walls, snow-melt loops), and leave a graded subgrade ready for the next pour. Most of our tear-outs roll directly into a replacement pour the same week, so the removal is planned around what's coming next.
Single driveway panel, whole patio, or a commercial parking slab — same approach, different equipment.
What we remove
Our process
We check thickness, reinforcement type, proximity to structures, underground utilities, and equipment access. You get a scope before work starts — not after.
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.
Same-day haul
Yes
Debris leaves the lot the same day it comes out. Your neighbors see a clean site at the end of day one.
Replacement turnaround
1–3days
Typical gap between tear-out and replacement pour when the new pour is on the same scope.
Where We Work
Tear-out and demolition work across Park City. Old Town is our busiest tear-out neighborhood (tight lots, aging flatwork); Jeremy Ranch and Glenwild see a lot of driveway replacements on 20–30-year-old concrete.
Contact Summit Concrete Services for a tear-out assessment. We'll evaluate the scope, provide a written estimate including haul-off, and coordinate with your new pour if needed.