Concrete cutting in Tupelo MS - clean openings right where you need them
Need a trench, an opening or a hole through your concrete? We cut it clean where you mark it and keep the dust down.
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Can you cut out part of a concrete slab without breaking the rest?
Concrete cutting is how we open up concrete you already have in Tupelo, using diamond saws and core drills to cut a straight line, a trench or a round hole so the slab or wall around it stays solid.
Usually somebody needs in. A plumber has to reach a line under the garage floor, you want a busted panel of driveway gone without tearing up the good part, or a new drain needs a hole through a wall. The price mostly turns on how many feet we cut, how thick the concrete is and how much steel is inside it. The schedule turns on whether the job needs a permit, whether we're cutting wet or dry, and getting water and power lined up. I'll give you your own figure on the estimate, written up so you can see exactly what's included.
How do you know your slab or wall needs to be cut?
A broken section of slab
One panel of your driveway or patio has cracked through, sunk or lifted while the rest still sits fine. Usually we can saw a straight line around it and take out just that piece, and the longer it sits, the more water runs under it and softens the ground under the good part.
A pipe under the floor
Your plumber says the leak or the new drain runs under the garage floor or the slab. We can cut a neat trench or drill a round hole so they can reach it, and putting it off usually means more water soaking the ground under your concrete.
A new slab with no joints
The concrete went down recently and nobody cut control joints, the straight grooves that give a slab a planned place to crack as it shrinks. Concrete is going to crack somewhere, and if the joints come late or never, it picks its own lines, which you can't take back once they show.
How we handle concrete cutting, start to finish
Before we cut, I'll ask what you know about steel or anything else inside the concrete, like rebar, the steel bars that hold a slab together, or old pipes and wiring, and where we can hook up water and power. Then we mark the line and pick the tool for it, because a flat slab, a standing wall and a round hole each take a different saw or drill. Water on the blade is the usual way to keep the dust down, but in a finished room we can cut with dust collection instead of water, so there's no slurry, the gray muddy water a wet cut leaves, on your floors. When the cut's done, we pull the pieces out and clean up.
A lot of cutting comes right before new concrete. We'll saw out a cracked or sunken section as part of concrete driveway building, or clear an old slab out back before concrete patio construction, and the straight saw cut leaves a clean edge for the new pour to meet.
Slab sawing
A walk-behind saw cuts straight lines through floors, driveways and patios. It suits taking out a section, cutting a plumbing trench or sawing control joints into fresh concrete.
Wall and hand sawing
A saw that rides a track makes straight cuts in standing concrete walls, and a hand saw gets into corners and short cuts a bigger saw can't reach. It suits a new doorway, a window opening or a tight spot.
Core drilling
A hollow diamond bit drills a clean round hole through a slab or wall. It suits a pipe, a drain, a vent or a wire run, when you need a hole and not a trench.
Get a free estimate for your concrete cutting job
Send the form and you'll hear back from me within one business day. I'll come out, measure and write up a free estimate in plain words showing exactly what's included, with no obligation.
(662) 990-8013- Based in
- Tupelo, MS 38804
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–10 PM, Sat–Sun: 7 AM–11 PM
What happens after you call us about concrete cutting in Tupelo?
Here's how a cutting job runs from your first call to the final walk-through, so you know who you'll be dealing with at each step.
Call and describe the cut
You call, and I come out to measure and talk through where the cut goes and why you need it. If you know whether the room is finished or what steel is in the concrete, tell me then.
Read your written estimate
I write it up in plain words, with where we'll cut, which tool we'll use, wet or dry, and exactly what's included. You see what each part of the job is before you say yes, so nothing in the price is a mystery.
We handle permits and cut
Once you say go, we handle any permit paperwork with you, hook up water and power, mark the line and cut. We take the pieces out and clean up before we leave.
Walk the job together
When we're finished, I walk it with you and go over how to look after it. If we cut a trench or took out a section, that's when we talk about what goes back in.
Why Tupelo homeowners call Hallmark Tupelo Concrete to cut concrete
I'm the one who comes out
I come out myself to look at the job and give the estimate, and my crew and I do the cutting together. The person who heard what you want is the same one standing next to the saw.
Building slabs since 2017
We've been in business since 2017, and most of that time has gone into building driveways, patios and slabs from the ground up. Knowing how a slab gets built helps me read what's likely inside one before we cut it.
A licensed, fully insured contractor
Mississippi requires commercial and residential contractors to be licensed by the state Board of Contractors, and we're licensed and fully insured. It's worth asking any crew about that before they bring a saw onto your property.
On a cutting job, knowing what's inside the concrete before the blade goes in matters more than anything, so send me the details or call (662) 990-8013 and I'll come take a look.
Concrete cutting, permits and new pours in Tupelo
In Tupelo, permits come from the city's Department of Development Services, which requires one for any land development, demolition, construction or occupancy of a structure. Whether your cut counts depends on the job, so I check with the city before we start, and when it needs a permit we handle the paperwork with you, by email to the city's permitting office or in person at City Hall. Mississippi's Dig Law also counts demolition, drilling and removing material on or below the ground as excavation, so if your job takes out concrete at ground level or digs under it, ask me how the law applies and we'll go over it before the saw starts.
Most of the cutting calls we get are driveways, garage floors and patios where one section has given out or a plumber needs under the slab, and we see the same kinds of jobs in Pontotoc and New Albany. Plenty of these slabs are older with no drawings of what's inside, so we ask and look before we settle on a cut line.
Questions about concrete cutting in Tupelo
How much does concrete cutting cost in Tupelo?
Professional concrete cutting across the US usually costs about $3 to $10 per linear foot of cut, so that's the going rate and not a quote from us. Thicker concrete, more steel and hard-to-reach spots push a job toward the top of that, and I'll write your own figure on the estimate.
Is wet or dry concrete cutting better for my home?
Outside or in a garage, wet cutting is usually the better pick, and in a finished room dry cutting with dust collection usually is. Water on the blade cuts down a lot of the dust, and one tool supplier says it also helps the blade last and the cut come out cleaner, but it leaves slurry to clean up and needs a water source. For lived-in rooms, that same supplier advises a shroud on the saw hooked to a collector and a HEPA vacuum for the debris, which is slower but leaves nothing to clean up or damage.
What should I do before a crew cuts my concrete?
Gather what you know about steel or anything else buried in the concrete, and plan where the crew can hook up water and power. The cutting trade's own guidelines call for a talk with the owner before the job to settle the size and location of any rebar or embedded items and whether it's all right to cut them, and they put the water and power on the owner. It's also fair to ask me whether the line can be laid out to cut fewer bars or miss them altogether.
How do I find out if there are cables in my slab before cutting?
Ground-penetrating radar is the standard way to find post-tension cables, the steel strands pulled tight inside some structural slabs. One national cutting contractor calls locating them a step you don't skip before coring a structural slab, and says radar finds them accurately without damaging the concrete. If there's any chance your slab has them, tell me at the estimate so we can plan for it before we cut.
How long does it take to cut a concrete slab?
It comes down to how many feet you need cut, how thick the concrete is and how much steel the blade has to go through, so I'll tell you what to plan around once I've measured. Having water and power ready and any permit settled ahead of time keeps the day from stalling.
What happens to my floor after you cut a trench for a plumber?
Once the plumber's done, we can backfill the trench, pack it down and pour it back with new concrete so the patch sits on solid ground like the slab around it. That packing matters more than how the top looks, because a patch poured over loose dirt settles and cracks right along the cut.
Related concrete work after the cut
Concrete driveway building
When a cracked or sunken driveway is past saving, we can pour a new one on a dug-out, packed base so it holds up to your car.
Concrete patio construction
If cutting out an old slab clears room, a new patio poured with planned joints and a slope away from the house gives you somewhere to sit.
Service areas for concrete cutting around Tupelo
Hallmark Tupelo Concrete is based in Tupelo, Mississippi, and works across the cities around it, including Booneville and Amory. Five of those cities have their own page below, and they aren't the only places we go.
Tupelo, MS
Tell me where the cut needs to go
If you can mark the spot and tell me whether the room is finished and what you know about steel in the concrete, the first visit gets straight to the right plan.