Cost to Remove and Replace Concrete in Dallas

$3,600 to $9,800 for the new driveway, with the tear-out on top. A Dallas cost model puts a 400 to 700 square foot driveway at $6 to $14 per square foot, with 5-inch concrete and #4 rebar as the local standard, and standard residential demolition at $1.10 to $1.80 per square foot. Dallas–Fort Worth contractors who publish their own prices put demolition and haul-off higher, at $2 to $4 per square foot, which is $1,200 to $2,400 on a typical 600-square-foot two-car driveway. A national guide is lower again: approximately $1.00 per square foot for tear out and removal, and it says disposal can cost extra on top of that. Ask which of those three numbers the bid in your hand is built on. Prices with no new pour attached sit on the concrete removal cost page, and every range here is dated on price updates.

Less per square foot than a driveway, because neither one carries a car out to the street.

• Patio slab, 200 to 500 square feet: $1,200 to $5,500, at $6 to $11 per square foot.
• Garage floor, 400 to 600 square feet: $3,000 to $6,600, at $6 to $11 per square foot, with rebar required and a vapor barrier and drain for an attached garage.
• Driveway, 400 to 700 square feet: $3,600 to $9,800, at $6 to $14 per square foot.

Removal comes on top of all three at the same $1.10 to $1.80 per square foot for a plain residential slab. The material itself is a smaller share than most people expect: ready-mix in Dallas runs $119 to $141 per cubic yard, and short loads under 8 yards carry surcharges of $15 to $25 a yard, which is why a small patio costs more per foot than a big driveway. See concrete patios and slabs and foundations.

Different machines, different disposal costs, and a different crew day. It is also the line a thin bid quietly drops. A Dallas cost guide tells homeowners replacing a driveway to ask for demolition in the same quote, since bundling typically saves 10 to 15 percent against hiring it out separately. Do that, and still keep it as its own line. Two bids only mean something when you can see what each company charged to break up the old slab and carry it away.

Steel first, then thickness, access and weight. Heavily reinforced slabs and post-tension foundation sections run $2.00 to $3.50 per square foot to remove, against $1.10 to $1.80 for a plain residential slab, because the steel has to come out with the concrete. Haul-off is priced by weight rather than by area. A solid, unbroken slab of concrete weighs about two tons, or 4,000 pounds, per cubic yard, and breaking it up roughly halves that to about 2,000 pounds per cubic yard, so the demolition method changes the truck count. Access is the quiet one. If no truck can reach the slab, the debris crosses your lawn by machine or by hand, and that time is in the price whether the bid names it or not.

The city charges $43.60 a ton at the gate of its own McCommas Bluff Landfill, plus a $2.00 per ton customer processing fee and a $2.00 per ton environmental fee. An uncovered load costs another $40.00. The Northwest Transfer Station at Bachman is higher at $71.28 a ton. Those are the commercial rates a contractor pays and passes through to you, and the city posts rate changes for FY 2026-27 on the same page, so ask when the disposal figure in your bid was last worked out. A bid with no disposal line is either absorbing that cost or guessing at it.

You do, and city ordinance says so: Dallas requires property owners to replace sidewalks, drive approaches or any other associated element when they become defective, unsafe or hazardous. There is help on half of it. The city shares the cost 50/50 with residents for existing residential sidewalk removal and replacement, and every single family residence qualifies, condominiums and townhomes included. The drive approach is the exception. Under the same program the owner pays the whole cost of removing and replacing it, while the city covers barrier free ramps and other miscellaneous items. That line is 214-948-4127, and the city's own timeline is two to three months to assess the property and post a quote, then roughly three to nine months from payment to completion. Hiring it out privately instead? Any sidewalk replacement by the owner or by a private contractor still needs an issued permit from the City of Dallas Permit Center at 320 E. Jefferson Blvd. Room 118, and slab and approach permits covers what the city asks for.