Long, cold winters at Mountain Home’s elevation are tough on hard surfaces. Water gets into cracks, freezes, and pushes slabs and asphalt apart a little more every year. Add old pads from barns and sheds that came down decades ago, and plenty of ranch and cabin properties have broken concrete and asphalt that is more trip hazard than useful surface.
We break up the old material, pull it out along with any buried rebar or wire mesh, and haul it all off the property. Then we clean up the base so the ground is ready for new paving, gravel, a lawn, or a building pad. Mountain Home is a longer drive for our crews, so removal is booked on set dates and often paired with grading or prep work on the same trip to make the most of each visit.
We know how freeze and thaw at Mountain Home's elevation breaks up slabs and how to leave a base that holds up better.
Our breakers, excavators, loaders, and haul trucks let us break, load, and clear old surfaces in one planned trip.
We tell you honestly whether a surface needs full removal or can be repaired, and what comes after makes sense.
Broken concrete, asphalt, and steel all leave on our trucks, and the base is cleaned up and graded before we go.
At about 7,005 feet, Mountain Home gets long winters with plenty of freeze and thaw. Water seeps under slabs and into cracks, freezes, and lifts the surface. When it thaws, the concrete or asphalt settles back unevenly. After enough seasons, you get tilted walks, broken driveway edges, and slabs that rock under your feet. Poor drainage and thin base material make it worse. Once a surface is heaved and broken in several places, patching only buys a little time. Pulling it out and starting over with a solid base is often the better long term answer, especially in a climate this hard on pavement. We can look at your surface and tell you honestly which side of that line it falls on.
Ranch properties around Mountain Home often have concrete left behind after a barn, shed, or shop came down. Sometimes it is a full floor, sometimes just a pad and a few footings sticking up in the pasture. These old slabs get in the way of new building plans, hay storage, and even mowing. We break them up, dig out the footings, and fill the holes so the ground is level and usable again. If you are also clearing away an old building that is still standing, structure demolition in Mountain Home takes care of the teardown and the slab in one plan. That saves a second trip out and keeps the cleanup in one pass instead of two.
Every property is a little different, but these are the surfaces we remove most often:
Thick slabs and steel reinforced concrete take more time to break and load than thin walks. We look at thickness and access during the walkthrough so the quote reflects the real job and nothing comes as a surprise on removal day.
Removing concrete or asphalt often means digging into the base, and in Utah the person doing the digging calls Blue Stakes. The call goes in at least 3 business days ahead and no more than 14 calendar days before work, and the ticket expires after 21 days. When we are digging, we make the call. Footings built to reach the 30 inch Duchesne County frost depth sit well below the slab, so pulling them takes a little more digging. Private lines, such as power to a shop or water to a stock tank, need to be pointed out by the owner.
Mountain Home sits north of SR-87, past Altamont, and it is a long drive for our trucks. That is why we like to plan removal along with whatever comes next. If you want new asphalt where the old drive was, asphalt paving for Mountain Home driveways can follow once the base is ready. Basin does not pour new concrete, but we can prep the ground for your concrete contractor or set it up for gravel or paving. Lining it all up keeps trips to a minimum and gets the most out of the short season. Removal in late spring, with new surfacing following in early summer, gives fresh paving the warm months it needs to set up before the first hard freeze.
Once the old surface is gone, the ground underneath needs attention. We clean out loose and broken base, check for soft spots, and grade the area so water moves away instead of sitting under the next surface. A good base and good drainage are what keep new paving from heaving the way the old one did. For a new or rebuilt driveway, driveway prep covers the base work in more detail, from cutting soft ground out to compacting fresh material for the next surface. Spending a little more on base now is usually cheaper than tearing out a heaved surface again in a few years.
We walk the area with you, measure the surfaces, check thickness and access, and mark any edges to keep.
You get a written quote that covers breaking, loading, hauling, base cleanup, and our planned trip dates.
Our crew saw cuts keep edges, breaks up the old surface, pulls rebar and footings, and hauls it all away.
We walk the cleared area together, check grade and drainage, and talk about paving, gravel, or the next step.
