Concrete Cutting in Fargo ND - Clean openings and straight lines in your concrete

Most cutting calls come from someone who needs to get through concrete without tearing all of it out, for a drain trench in a basement floor, a doorway in a foundation wall or a cracked section of driveway that has to go. The price moves with where the cut is, how deep it goes and how much steel is inside, and the schedule turns on what has to happen before the saw starts, like the scan and, for a wall opening, the engineer's plan. Your own figure comes after I've walked the cut with you and put the scope in writing.

Tell us first whether the cut is in a floor or a wall, because that decides the saw. Floors, driveways and sidewalks get a flat saw that runs along the slab, walls get a wall saw that rides on a track fixed to the concrete, and round holes for pipes or vents get cored. Before any blade goes in, we scan for steel and wiring so we know where the rebar, the steel bars that hold a slab together, and any live lines run, and we lay the cut out around them. For a new opening in a wall, we wait for the engineer's plan before we cut, then we saw the lines, clean up and go over the edges with you.

Cutting is often the first step of a bigger job. We saw out a damaged section so a new concrete driveway ties into what's left, cut back an old slab to make room for a concrete patio, and on a fresh pour we cut the control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a planned place to crack.

A lot of the cutting we do in Fargo touches the front of the lot, like sawing out a strip of sidewalk or cutting back an edge to widen a driveway, and the city has rules there you'll want to know. The City of Fargo requires anyone installing or repairing sidewalk to be licensed with the city as a sidewalk contractor and to hold a North Dakota general contractor's license, and unlicensed sidewalk or approach work, the stretch of driveway between the street and the sidewalk, can bring a $500 fine plus removal of the work, with the cost added to your property taxes as a special assessment. The city also sets how narrow and how wide a driveway can be where it meets the sidewalk, and going past the usual maximum takes the City Engineer's approval, so before we cut back an edge we check your new width against the city's driveway approach rules.

Inside the house, most of what we cut here is basement and garage floors opened up for drain and plumbing lines, plus the odd new door or window in a foundation wall. We're based in Fargo and take the same kinds of calls in West Fargo, Moorhead and the cities around them.