Need a doorway, a trench or a hole through a slab? We cut clean, wet and only along the lines you approve.
Concrete cutting in Little Rock means sawing a marked section out of a slab or wall, or boring a round hole through it with a core drill, so you get the exact opening your project needs without breaking up the concrete you want to keep.
Most calls start with something you want to add or fix, like a doorway in a block wall, a trench across a garage floor for a drain line, a hole for a vent or pipe, or a cracked piece of driveway you want gone without losing the rest. Caliber Little Rock Concrete Company is based in Little Rock, and we work across the cities around it in central Arkansas.
Price comes down to how many feet of cut or how many holes you need, how thick the concrete is, whether steel or cables run inside it and how much cleanup the spot takes. The schedule mostly turns on prep, meaning lines checked and shut off, a scan if one's needed and a permit if your job calls for one. Building permits here go through the City of Little Rock Planning and Development Department, which takes applications online, so I check with the city or county office for your address and we handle the paperwork when a permit's required. You'll get your own figure at the estimate.
It's a short list, and you deal with me from the first visit to the last walk-through. Call (501) 274-1092 or send us the form to get started.
I've run this business since 2020, after learning the trade on concrete crews around Little Rock, and I'm the one who shows up to see the job. We talk through your choices on the spot, and you leave with an estimate and a straight answer on what the cut needs.
We're fully licensed and insured. Our own crew runs the saw and the core drill, and I run the job on site.
I'm there to check the layout and prep before the blade touches concrete, because that's where a cut goes right or wrong. When we're done, I walk the opening with you so you can see it matches what you signed off on.
On most jobs the saw is the quick part, and the prep is where I spend the time. Before we cut, you sign off on the marked lines, and we go over with you which private lines might run nearby. If cables or steel could be inside, we scan the slab first. Then we cut wet to keep the dust down, with a blade for straight lines or a core drill for round holes, break out the piece and haul it off.
Cutting often comes before other work. We saw out a broken section so we can pour new as part of concrete driveway building, and we cut back an old slab edge so a new pour ties in clean during concrete patio construction.
A cut can't be put back, so we work through these in order and don't skip ahead.
We mark the cut with you and you sign off on it, so the opening lands where you want it and nowhere else. Changing a line in chalk is free, and changing it after the cut isn't.
Before any cutting, you need to know whether lines run inside the slab or wall, next to it or fastened to it, and get those services shut off if they do. We go over that with you so nothing's live where the blade goes.
Some slabs have steel cables pulled tight inside them, and if a core drill cuts one, the stress lets go along the whole cable, so the slab loses strength well past the hole. That's why we scan first when there's any chance of it, and one scanning firm says a single scan can map those cables, the steel around them, the slab's thickness and any conduit inside.
The gray water off the blade is alkaline and full of cement fines, so on most sites it can't go down a drain. We contain it and pick it up, and that cleanup is part of what you're paying for, especially indoors.
Tell us where the cut goes, about how long it is or how many holes you need, and whether any lines or cables might run nearby. We get back to you within one business day, then I come out to look at it and give you a free on-site estimate with no obligation. You can also call (501) 274-1092.
(501) 274-1092Professional concrete cutting across the US usually runs about $3 to $10 per linear foot of cut. That's a national range, not our price, and where your job falls depends on the thickness, any steel inside and the cleanup. I'll give you your own number at the estimate.
Yes, water on the blade greatly cuts the dust from sawing concrete, brick and block, so much less of it spreads out from where we're working. One tool supplier suggests dry cutting with a shroud, a dust collector and a fine-dust vacuum instead, which is slower but leaves no water to clean up. We cut wet, and if a spot can't take water, we'll talk it through with you at the estimate.
You need the cut lines clearly marked and approved, plus where and what anything set inside the concrete is, on or near those lines. It also helps to decide whether over cuts are OK, where the round blade runs a little past the end of a line to finish a corner. We walk through all of it with you before anything gets cut.
Arkansas 811 says utility companies only locate their own lines, and private lines may also be on your property. Their rule of thumb is that anything behind the meter belongs to you, so a gas line out to a grill, power run to a shed or sprinkler lines won't get marked for you.
Around Little Rock and the cities near it, like North Little Rock, Sherwood, Maumelle and Benton, a lot of our cutting calls come from adding a drain, running a line out to a garage or shop, or opening a slab for plumbing. Those are the jobs where a private line is most likely to sit close to the cut, so we go over it with you before the saw comes off the truck.
Plans are easy to change before the saw starts, so call (501) 274-1092 or send the form while your layout's still open.
If you've got a slab or wall that needs an opening, tell us about it and we'll come take a look.
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