Driveways & Aprons
Usually the heaviest job on a house
Concrete drives, aprons and parking pads broken out and removed.
Concrete Removal in Central Kentucky
Driveways, patios, slabs, sidewalks and foundations broken out and taken away. This is the one job on this site priced by weight, and the weight surprises people.
- Crown’s own published range: $400 to $2,500+, before anyone visits
- Thickness and reinforcement move this more than square footage does
- Measure the area and the depth and you can place yourself before you call
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Do the arithmetic and you can price your own slab
Nobody else in this market shows you this, and it takes one minute. It is also why two quotes for "a patio" can be hundreds of dollars apart.
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Pounds per square foot of a four-inch concrete slab, which is why this job is priced by weight and not by area
US Environmental Protection Agency, Construction and Demolition Debris, materials and management, 2018 data
Start with the density. Ordinary structural concrete runs to roughly 150 pounds per cubic foot. A four-inch slab is a third of a foot thick, so every square foot of it weighs about fifty pounds. That single figure does most of the work.
Now your slab. A modest 12 × 20 patio is 240 square feet. At four inches that is roughly 12,000 pounds, six tons. The same patio poured at six inches is nine tons. Nothing about the surface you are looking at changed; the job did.
Which is why thickness beats area. Doubling the depth doubles the weight, the loads and most of the labour. Doubling the area does the same, but you can see the area from the kitchen window and you cannot see the depth, so the depth is the one that surprises people. It is also why a contractor who quotes concrete from a photo without asking how thick it is has not really quoted it.
And where it goes afterwards. Concrete is the one demolition material with a real second life. EPA’s 2018 figures put about 313 million tons of construction and demolition debris into aggregate next-use against 144 million tons landfilled, most of that recovered tonnage being concrete. Worth asking any contractor which of those two your driveway joins.
🔶 PLACEHOLDER: Crown’s own disposal route for broken concrete goes here. The national figures above are EPA’s and are not a claim about where Crown’s material goes; nothing on crownclearing.com states it either way, and it is not a thing to assume. The 150 lb/cu ft figure is the standard density for ordinary concrete and the arithmetic above is shown so you can check it.
What concrete removal costs
Published ranges, because almost nobody in this market will give you a number before a site visit. You get a firm figure before anything starts and only pay for work completed.
Small slab or patio
$400 to $900
A patio, a path or a small pad. Thin, unreinforced, and reachable.
Driveway or large slab
$900 to $2,500
The common job. Thickness and reinforcement decide where in the band you land.
Foundations or heavy reinforcement
$2,500+
Footings, stem walls, and anything with heavy rebar through it.
- Thickness
- Four inches and eight inches are not a small difference: they are double the weight.
- Reinforcement
- Wire mesh slows a break-out. Rebar changes the method entirely.
- Access
- Whether a truck backs onto the slab, or every piece is barrowed to the curb.
- Total weight
- The real driver. Everything else on this list is a way of estimating it.
These are Crown’s own published concrete ranges, split across the tiers people ask in. If the concrete is under a structure that is also going, read shed and outbuilding removal; the two are usually quoted together.
What we break out
Crown’s own scope is driveways, slabs, sidewalks and foundations. The differences between them are depth and what is inside them.
Patios & Walkways
Often thinner, and often the easiest
Patio slabs, paths and garden walkways, plain or reinforced.
Slabs & Pads
The second half of an outbuilding job
Shed, garage and outbuilding pads taken back to ground.
Sidewalks & Curbs
Frequently a city-adjacent job
Sidewalk panels, curbing and edging removed.
Foundations & Footings
The heaviest concrete on a residential site
Old foundations, footings and stem walls broken out.
Loading & Haul-Away
Priced in, not added at the end
Everything broken out is loaded and taken away by us.
How concrete removal works
Four steps, no obligation, and you only pay for work completed.
Free quote from photos
Photograph the slab with something for scale, and measure the area and the depth at a broken edge if you can see one.
The weight estimate
We work out what is actually coming out, because that is what sets the price and the number of loads.
Break-out and load
The slab is broken into liftable sections and loaded as we go rather than stacked on your lawn.
Swept and levelled off
Ground raked level, debris gone, and we walk it with you before we leave.
What Our Customers Say
Very quick from contact to in home to remove some flooring. Once on site they got straight to work and did an outstanding job! Very reasonable price for the work done. Will continue to use them for all future needs.
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Concrete Removal across Central Kentucky
Based in Lexington, working the counties around it. Send the address rather than the town: access decides more than distance on most of these jobs.
The questions we get asked
Answered properly rather than deflected to a phone call.
Not sure it’s this job?
Send two or three photos. If it is really a different service we will say so and point you at the right page. It costs you nothing either way.
Send photos insteadWhy is a small concrete patio more than a much bigger deck?
Because you are not paying for the area, you are paying for the weight and the loads it takes to move it. Concrete runs to roughly 150 pounds per cubic foot, which puts a four-inch slab at about fifty pounds for every square foot of it. A timber deck of the same footprint might be a tenth of that. The section above does the arithmetic properly: it is the single most useful thing to understand before you get quotes on concrete.
How do I tell how thick my slab is?
Look at a broken edge, an expansion joint, or where the slab meets a drain or a step: almost every slab shows its depth somewhere. Residential patios and paths are commonly around four inches; drives and garage pads are often five or six; anything carrying vehicles or built as a foundation can be a great deal more. If you can photograph an edge with a tape or a coin against it, that one photo improves the quote more than any other.
Is there rebar in it?
Often, and it changes the method rather than the possibility. Wire mesh is common in residential slabs and slows the break-out; proper rebar, usually in drives, foundations and anything structural, has to be cut as the slab comes apart. You can sometimes see the ends at an edge or a saw cut. If you cannot tell, say so: we would rather assume it is there and be right than quote as if it is not.
What happens to the concrete afterwards?
Broken concrete is one of the few demolition materials with a genuine second life: EPA’s figures for 2018 put around 313 million tons of construction and demolition debris into aggregate next-use, against 144 million tons landfilled. It is worth asking any contractor where your material actually goes, because "hauled away" and "recycled" are not the same sentence.
Can you do just part of a driveway?
Yes, and it is common: a section by a garage door, an apron at the curb, a strip being replaced. Partial removal means a saw cut to give a clean edge, which is a small extra step and worth mentioning when you send the photos so the quote includes it rather than adds it.
Which areas do you serve?
Lexington and the surrounding counties: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The ZIP codes are listed above. Concrete is the one job where distance matters least and access matters most, because the weight rather than the mileage sets the number of loads.
Get a price on your concrete
Photograph the slab with something for scale, and measure the area and the depth at a broken edge or expansion joint if you can see one. The depth is the photo that changes the quote.
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