$130 to $220 per m², supplied and laid. Prices may vary with site conditions and variations.
Most of our calls start with concrete that has failed: a driveway cracked along the tyre tracks, a path lifted over roots, a patio dropped away from the house. Patching moves the problem sideways. Replacement fixes the reason it failed, because the fault is almost never in the concrete; it is in what is underneath.
The job, start to finish
- Saw cut at the boundary and at any joins with surfaces staying.
- Break out and load the old concrete, pavers or asphalt. Disposal is included in the rate.
- Fix the cause. On Greater Dandenong’s clay that is usually a poor base or water getting under the slab, so the base is rebuilt and compacted and the drainage corrected before anything is poured.
- New steel, new pour, in plain, coloured or exposed aggregate, to the build-up on the specification page.
One number, not two trades
Removal priced separately from the new pour is how replacement jobs blow out: the demolition contractor leaves, the concreter finds the base is worse than quoted, and the variation lands on you. Here it is one crew and one written quote covering the cut, the break-out, the disposal, the base correction and the new surface.
What it costs
Removal and disposal adds $35 per square metre to whatever replaces it, so a replacement driveway runs $130 to $220 per m2 all in by finish, a replacement path $125 to $165, and a replacement patio $135 to $215. The cost guide sets out worked examples, and the calculator includes a removal option so the range you see is the whole job.
Where we pour concrete removal and replacement
Dandenong, Dandenong North, Dandenong South, Keysborough, Noble Park, Springvale and nowhere else: one council, known inside out.