Need a drain line through the garage floor or a section of patio gone? We scan first, then cut it clean.
Concrete cutting in La Porte means using diamond saws and core bits to make straight cuts, openings and round holes in hardened concrete, so you can run a pipe, drain or conduit through a slab or wall, or take out a section without breaking up the rest.
Most calls start with something you want run through the concrete or taken out of it, like a drain line under the garage floor, a cracked and sinking piece of driveway, or a doorway into the basement. Concrete doesn't give, and what's buried in it decides where a cut can go, so we plan the cut before anyone picks up a saw.
The price moves with how many feet we cut, how thick the concrete is, whether we're working inside your house, and whether you want the pieces hauled off or left in place. The schedule turns on getting the scan done first, any permit for a cut near the street, and the wait before digging if the job goes into the ground. Your own figure comes from the estimate I write after I've seen the spot.
Here's what happens between your first call and a finished cut, and I'm part of every step.
I answer my own phone, so when you call or send a message about a cut, you're talking to the person who'll be on the job. I come out, look at the slab or wall, ask what the opening is for and write up your estimate on site.
Once you say go, we take care of the paperwork the job needs and put the cut on the calendar. If the cut is the start of a bigger job, like a new section of slab, we line up the pour behind it so the gap isn't sitting open for long.
We're licensed and fully insured, and I started this business in La Porte in 2023. I'm on site with the crew from the scan to the cleanup, because I learned under a boss who made us tear out anything that wasn't right.
We scan the concrete before any blade touches it and mark what we find right on the surface, so the cut lines go where they're safe. Then we set up for the slurry, the wet sludge a diamond saw throws off, make the cuts and clean that slurry up before we leave. The pieces either stay in place or get broken up and hauled, and I tell you up front which one your price covers, because those are two different jobs.
Cutting is often the first half of a bigger job. When a cracked or sunken section of driveway comes out, we can pour the new piece as part of concrete driveway building, and an old patio that needs a section cut away usually leads into concrete patio construction. Either way, the subgrade, the dirt and gravel the new slab sits on, gets dug out and packed so it doesn't settle like the old one. That base is the part nobody sees once it's poured, and it's the part I won't trim to save a few dollars.
Getting the order right matters more than the saw, so here's how a cutting job should come together.
A flat saw cuts across slabs, a wall saw rides a track up a wall or steep face, and a hand saw gets into tight spots. Wire saws take on thick or heavily reinforced sections and core drilling makes the round holes, so knowing what you're cutting and what shape you need picks the tool.
The scan goes first because it decides where every other step can happen. If it turns up something in the way, we move the cut now, not halfway through it.
The trade association's sample specification says slurry collection and disposal should be agreed with the owner before work starts, so we settle how it's collected and cleaned up at the estimate. Indoors that also means barriers, ventilation and dust or water control set up before the saw runs.
A cut is usually the start of something, like a new drain, a new section of slab or a door, so that work should be planned before the saw comes out. That way the opening isn't left sitting while you figure out the next step.
Call (219) 258-7141, email sales@laporteconcretecompany.com or send the form with the surface you need cut, a rough length, whether it's inside or outside, and whether you want the pieces hauled off. We reply within one business day, and there's no obligation. I'll come out, look at the spot, ask how you'll use it and write up a free estimate on site.
(219) 258-7141Concrete slab saw cutting across the US usually costs about $4 to $15 per linear foot, and that's for the sawing alone. Breaking up the panels, hauling them off and paying disposal fees can add more than the cut itself, and on a small job a minimum charge or the cost of bringing the crew and saws out can outweigh the per-foot rate. I'll put your number in writing when I come out.
We scan because cutting into a tensioned cable or live electrical conduit can be deadly, and you can't see either one from the top of the slab. One concrete cutting safety guide calls a scan with ground-penetrating radar, a radar that sees into the concrete, the first rule, since it finds the rebar that holds the concrete together, the post-tension cables pulled tight inside some slabs, and live conduit before a blade does.
Yes, but when the wall helps hold up your house, the opening is an engineer's call, and a concrete cutting safety guide says an engineer controls any structural opening. One guide on foundation doorways cuts the pocket for the lintel, the beam that carries the wall above the opening, and sets the lintel before cutting the doorway below it. We follow the engineer's plan for how it's done.
We do, when your job needs one, and the permit comes from City of La Porte Engineering, which issues Right of Way Permits. Its fee list has separate lines for digging with a pavement cut and digging without one, so cutting the pavement is its own item on the permit. Before work starts we check which office covers your address, and you can reach the city's engineering office at (219) 362-2327.
If your job digs into the ground, say a trench for a new drain line past the cut, Indiana's Call Before You Dig law says whoever digs has to contact Indiana 811 at least two full working days before starting, so plan on those days ahead of the start date. The LaPorte County Building Commissioner only issues a building permit when the general contractor and subcontractors are registered with the county, and when a job needs a permit or contractor registration, we take care of it.
We're based in La Porte and work across the cities around it, from Michigan City and Westville to Valparaiso and South Bend. A lot of the calls around here are older driveways and garage floors that need a section taken out or a line run through them, and the work is the same whichever city you're in. If your city isn't listed, give us a call and ask.
Once a cut is in it's there for good, so call (219) 258-7141 or send the form and we'll settle where it goes first.
If you've got a slab or wall that needs an opening, send us a note and tell us what it's for.
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