Old concrete doesn’t fix itself. That cracked-up parking lot, the failed warehouse slab, the loading dock that’s been sinking for three years — patching it and hoping for the best just delays the bill. At some point, it has to come out. That’s what we do.
LCE Concrete Contractor Jacksonville handles commercial concrete demolition across Duval County. Parking lots, sidewalks, building slabs, retaining walls, foundations, curbing — if it’s concrete and it needs to go, we break it, load it, and haul it. Licensed, bonded, insured. Four years in business. 5-star Google rating from people who needed the job done fast and clean without excuses.
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Residential demo is a guy with a sledgehammer and a wheelbarrow. Commercial demo is a different job entirely.
We’re talking slabs that are 6, 8, 10 inches thick with rebar grids running through them. Parking lots with wire mesh embedded in concrete that fights you on every break. Loading docks with 12-inch pads sitting on pilings. Retaining walls with footings buried three feet in the dirt. You don’t muscle through that with hand tools.
We bring hydraulic breakers, skid steers with hoe attachments, concrete saws for controlled cuts, and the trucks to haul the rubble. On larger jobs — full parking lot removals, warehouse slab demolitions — we bring in excavators with hammer attachments that chew through reinforced concrete at a pace that keeps the project on schedule.
Every piece gets loaded, hauled, and disposed of properly. We don’t leave piles of broken concrete on your lot and call it “ready for pickup.” Our trucks take it out. Your site is clean when we leave.
Full removal or section replacement. We saw-cut the perimeter of the demo area so the remaining concrete has a clean edge instead of a jagged break line. On phased jobs, we can take out one section at a time so your business doesn’t lose the entire lot at once.
Thick, heavily reinforced, and usually full of rebar that has to be cut and separated. Some of these slabs have machine anchor bolts, embedded channels, or utility conduits running through them that need to be identified and dealt with before we start swinging. We don’t just hit it and hope — we know what we’re breaking into before the breaker touches it.
Old footings, grade beams, frost walls, pier caps. Foundation demo gets complicated because there’s usually active utilities nearby — water lines, sewer, gas, electrical conduit. We locate everything before we break anything. Hitting a gas line because nobody called 811 is not how we operate.
Commercial sidewalk removal along storefronts, office complexes, apartment properties. Curb and gutter demo for repaving projects. We saw-cut clean lines and remove only what needs to go so the adjacent concrete stays intact.
Block walls, poured walls, segmental walls that have failed and tipped over. We demo the wall, pull the footing, and grade the area for whatever’s coming next — whether that’s a new wall or a regraded slope.
These take a beating from trucks and forklifts and they eventually give out. Demo on loading docks usually involves thicker concrete, heavier rebar, and tight working conditions between the dock and the building. We’ve done enough of them to work in those spaces efficiently.
Demo pricing depends on volume, thickness, reinforcement, access, and disposal.
A straightforward parking lot section — 4-inch unreinforced concrete with good truck access — runs around $2 to $4 per square foot for demo and haul-off. Heavily reinforced industrial slabs at 8-plus inches thick can hit $6 to $10 per square foot depending on what’s in them and how hard they are to reach.
Small commercial jobs — a few hundred square feet of sidewalk or a single loading dock pad — usually carry a minimum charge because we’re still mobilizing equipment and a crew regardless of size.
Factors that push the price up: rebar-heavy slabs, post-tension cable slabs that need special handling, limited access that forces smaller equipment and more time, contaminated soil under the slab, utility conflicts that require careful work, and hauling distance to the disposal site.
We don’t guess at demo pricing. We come look at the concrete, figure out what’s in it and under it, and give you a number. The estimate is free and it’s accurate.
If somebody tells you the building has post-tension slabs, pay attention. Post-tension concrete has steel cables running through it under thousands of pounds of tension. Cut one without knowing it’s there and the cable recoils like a steel whip. People have been killed.
We identify post-tension slabs before we touch them. The cables have to be de-tensioned before any cutting or breaking starts. That means locating the anchor points, relieving the tension in a controlled sequence, and then proceeding with demolition using methods that account for the cable layout.
Not every demo contractor knows how to handle post-tension. We do. If your commercial building was built with PT slabs, don’t hand that job to the cheapest bid. This is one of those situations where experience isn’t optional — it’s a safety requirement.
Shutting down a commercial property for a week while concrete gets torn out isn’t realistic for most business owners. We get that.
On occupied properties — strip malls, office complexes, apartment communities, operating warehouses — we plan the work in phases. Demo one section, clean it up, barricade it or backfill it, move to the next. We coordinate traffic flow so your tenants, customers, and delivery trucks can still get in and out. We schedule the loudest work during your slowest hours when we can.
Dust control, debris containment, and site safety are part of the scope on every commercial demo. We barricade the work zone, manage the dust with water, and keep the site presentable at the end of each work day. Your property shouldn’t look like a bomb went off just because we’re doing demolition.
If you need the demo coordinated with a new pour, a paving contractor, or a general contractor, we’ll sync schedules. We’ve worked as a sub on larger commercial projects and we know how to hit our window without holding up the next trade.
Every piece of concrete we break out leaves your site. We load it onto our trucks and haul it to a licensed recycling facility where it gets crushed and reused as aggregate for road base and fill material.
Recycling is the standard disposal method for clean concrete — it’s cheaper than landfill and it keeps thousands of pounds of material out of the dump. If the concrete is contaminated — say it was coated with hazardous materials or the soil underneath tests hot — that’s a different disposal process and we’ll identify that upfront so there are no surprises on the invoice.
We handle the disposal logistics. You don’t need to rent dumpsters, arrange haul-off, or figure out where concrete goes. It’s included in the price we quote.
Nobody’s posting their torn-up parking lot on Instagram. But it’s the foundation — literally — of whatever comes next. If the demo’s sloppy, the edges are ragged, the base is torn up, or there’s debris left in the subgrade, the new pour or paving job on top of it starts with a problem.
Saw-cut edges. Proper removal depth. Subgrade left ready for the next phase. Equipment off your site when we said it’d be off your site.
Licensed, bonded, insured. 5-star Google rating. We don’t have a sales team — we have a crew that does the work and a phone that gets answered. Four years of commercial concrete work in Jacksonville and we haven’t lost a customer to a callback yet.
Commercial concrete demolition across Jacksonville — Downtown, Southside, Westside, Arlington, Mandarin, the Beaches, Northside, San Marco, Riverside, Town Center corridor. Also Orange Park, Fleming Island, Ponte Vedra, and St. Augustine.
If your commercial property is in Duval County or northern St. Johns County and there’s concrete that needs to come out, we’ll get a crew there.
Call LCE Concrete Contractor Jacksonville for a free demolition estimate. We serve commercial properties across Jacksonville, FL. Let’s get the old stuff out so the new work can go in.
A small job — a section of parking lot or a couple hundred square feet of sidewalk — can be done in a day. Full parking lot removals, warehouse slabs, and multi-phase projects can run a week or more. We give you a detailed schedule during the estimate.
That’s the whole point of saw-cutting. We cut a clean line at the edge of the demo zone before we start breaking. The concrete on the other side of that cut stays intact with a straight, clean edge ready for the new pour. If we’re doing section replacement, that clean edge is critical.
Yes. Most commercial demo in Jacksonville requires a permit, and some projects require additional notifications depending on the scope and location. We handle the permit process and schedule inspections when required.
We separate it during demo and recycle it. Steel rebar gets pulled from the broken concrete, loaded separately, and taken to a metal recycler. It doesn’t end up in your dumpster or on your lot.
Yes. We schedule demo during off-hours for businesses that can’t afford noise and disruption during operating times. Restaurants, medical offices, retail stores — we’ve worked nights and weekends to keep the demolition out of their customers’ way.
If the base has failed — settled sections, wide structural cracks, voids underneath — patching the surface is a waste. If the slab is structurally sound but the surface is worn, an overlay or resurfacing might work. We’ll check it and tell you straight.
Call or text. Tell us what you’ve got — parking lot, slab, sidewalk, whatever — and we’ll set up a site visit. We look at the concrete, check the thickness and reinforcement, assess access and logistics, and give you a written price. No charge, no pressure.
