Jensen Beach Concrete handles concrete demolition, haul-away, and replacement pours for homeowners in Jensen Beach, Stuart, and Palm City. Homeowners usually get here after repairs have stopped holding — a driveway patched twice that's cracking a third time, or a slab where spalling has spread past what patching can address. Call or send the quote form; replacement scope depends on what's under the old slab, so the final quote follows an on-site look, though rough dimensions still get a useful ballpark started.
The old slab gets broken out, loaded, and hauled — including the pieces of the story that caused the failure, like an under-compacted base or roots grown beneath the concrete. That's the real advantage of replacement over another round of repair: the cause gets corrected, not just the symptom. The base is then regraded and compacted properly for sandy Martin County soil before the new slab is formed and poured. The result is a slab starting from a fixed foundation instead of inheriting the old one's problems.
The math turns when repairs stop lasting. A crack filled once that holds for years was a good repair; the same crack refilled every season is a subscription. Widespread spalling, sections settling at different rates, and slabs where more area is patched than original are the usual signs. There's no pressure in the direction of the bigger job — if the on-site look shows repair is still the sensible answer, that's the recommendation you'll get. The point of the look is an honest read, not an upsell.
Replacement carries the cost of the new pour plus demo and haul-away, so slab size counts twice. Thickness of the old concrete affects demo labor; access affects both the breakout equipment and the new pour; and whatever base correction the old slab needed — regrading, root removal, compaction — is part of doing it right. Because demo and pour crews mobilize together, replacing a driveway and an adjoining walkway at once costs less than doing them a year apart. Details on the cost factors page.
Plan on losing use of the driveway from demo day until the new slab can carry a vehicle — roughly a week and a half in total, weather permitting. Demo itself is the loud part and typically wraps within a day for a residential driveway. Street parking arrangements are worth sorting before demo day.
It's hauled off-site as part of the job. Broken concrete in Martin County generally goes to recycling operations that crush it for road base, so it doesn't just landfill — and haul-away is included in the quote, not a surprise line item afterward.
Sometimes. If the failure is isolated — one settled section of an otherwise sound driveway — sectional replacement is a legitimate option and costs less. If the same base problem runs under the whole slab, partial replacement just schedules the next failure. The on-site look is what separates those two cases.
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