Need a drain line under the slab or a bad section cut out? We make clean cuts and holes and tell you what's included first.
Concrete cutting in Torrance means sawing straight lines or drilling round holes through a slab or wall, so you can run a pipe, drain or conduit, cut out a bad section or make a smaller opening in the concrete.
Most calls start with a plan for something else, like a new drain line under the garage floor, a cracked driveway section that has to come out or a pipe that needs a way through a wall, and the cut is the step that makes room for it. The price moves with how many cuts and holes there are, how thick the concrete is, how much rebar, the steel bars that hold a slab together, is inside it, whether it's a floor or a wall and whether the pieces get hauled away. The schedule mostly turns on what has to happen first, like finding out what's in the slab and checking with the city or county on paperwork. I come out, look at the concrete with you and write the estimate, so you have your own figure before we start.
I come out to look at the concrete, ask the questions about what's inside it and write the estimate myself. Then I work alongside our crew on the cut, so the person who told you how it would go is the one standing at the saw.
Before I started our company in Torrance in 2023, I spent years running another contractor's crew and sorting out the jobs that didn't go by the book. Tight access, cuts through old slabs and work right on a property line are the calls we like.
We're licensed and fully insured, which matters on a cut because the saw often works right up against your house and things buried in the concrete. When you're ready to talk about your job, call (424) 318-3115 or use the form on this page.
We reply within one business day, and the on-site estimate is free with no obligation. I'll come out, look at where you want the cuts and holes and write the estimate, so it helps to have the locations ready, whether the work is indoors or out, any drawings or cable records and whether you want the pieces hauled off.
If any part of your cut reaches into the public right-of-way, the street and sidewalk side of your property, the city's Permits and Mapping Division is the office that issues permits for that work. Its list names construction and excavation, dumpster placement, street use for oversized loads and lane closures, but not concrete cutting by name, so whether your job needs one isn't settled until someone asks. When a right-of-way permit is needed, the city wants the contractor's state and city business license numbers, a sketch with dimensions and proof of liability insurance, and a city permit application needs Zoning Clearance from planning before it goes in. Before we schedule anything, we check with the city or county office for your address on what your job needs, and if a permit is called for, we handle the paperwork with you.
We're based in Torrance and work across the cities around it, including Redondo Beach and Lomita, and the cutting calls look much the same wherever we go. Most come from homeowners making room for a drain or pipe under a garage floor or cutting out a cracked piece of driveway, with some small business and property owners who need a trench cut or a row of holes cored. Plenty of the slabs we cut are older ones nobody has drawings for, which is why my first question is always what's under there.
Concrete saw cutting across the US usually costs about $4 to $25 per linear foot, and that's for the sawing, not breaking out or hauling the pieces. Reinforced or deeper slabs and wall sawing run higher per foot than an easy-to-reach slab, and small jobs are often priced by a minimum or by a charge for bringing the saw and crew out. That's a national figure, so your estimate will be built on your own cuts and holes.
Not always, because sawing concrete and removing it are separate jobs, and a cutter may leave the cut panels sitting in place. Breaking, hauling and disposal can add more than the sawing itself, so it's worth asking whether a quote covers taking the pieces away. Ours says so in plain words.
One scanning firm advises a professional scan before any drilling, coring or cutting in a slab. Its reason is post-tension cables, steel cables stretched tight inside some slabs, which carry stored force, and cutting one can damage the structure or release that tension near the crew. The same firm says drawings and cable records are useful but don't clear a cut by themselves, so share what you have and we'll talk it through.
Water on the blade is the biggest help, because wetting the blade substantially cuts the dust from sawing concrete, brick and block. For indoor work, a trade association's sample specification says engine-powered saws on interior walls or slabs need ventilation that meets OSHA standards, and it names electric, hydraulic and pneumatic saws as other options, which is why we settle the saw before we bring it. California's workplace silica rule also covers dust exposure on construction work like this, including repair and removal.
Yes, California's contractor license board lists concrete sawing, breaking and coring under its concrete related services contractor class. So it's fair to ask whoever you hire about their license before the saw comes out.
List each cut and each hole separately, because round holes for pipes and drains are normally core drilled and priced apart from ordinary saw cuts. Say whether the work is indoors or out, share any drawings or cable records and decide whether you want the pieces hauled away. With that in hand, call (424) 318-3115 and I'll come look at the concrete and write an estimate that matches the job.
