Most driveway calls on the coast are not for new estates, they are for driveways poured decades ago that have cracked, sunk at the crossover or spalled along the edges. Patching a failed slab buys a season or two; the fix that holds is out and repoured, and it is quoted here as one job with one price.
Why driveways fail here
The usual suspects are under the slab, not in it: base material that was never compacted, mesh that was laid on the ground instead of on chairs, joints cut late or not at all, and water directed at the slab edge for twenty years. Beach side sand lets water through fast; hinterland clay moves between wet and dry seasons. A replacement is the one chance to fix all of it at once, which is why the base gets rebuilt rather than reused.
What the swap includes
Saw cutting and breaking out the old driveway, carting and lawful disposal, base rebuilt and compacted, steel on chairs, a 25 MPa pour at 100mm minimum in the finish you choose, joints cut on planned lines and crossfall set away from the garage. Where the old driveway meets paths, the garage slab or the crossover, the levels are matched so nothing needs a ramp or a grinder afterwards.
Removal on its own
Sometimes the job is just getting concrete out: a dead slab making way for landscaping, or a paved area going back to garden. Break out and removal without a repour is quoted the same way, by the square metre, with disposal included.
The price, plainly
Removal adds $35 to $45 per m2 to the new driveway rates, and the whole replacement is quoted as one figure before anything is booked. The pricing page shows worked examples, and the calculator has a removal option built in. Rates move with site conditions and variations; the number that holds is the written quote after a site measure.
Where we pour
Baringa, Beerwah, Bells Creek, Buderim, Caboolture, Caloundra, Coolum, Golden Beach, Kawana, Landsborough, Maleny, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba, Morayfield, Mountain Creek, Nambour, Nirimba, Noosa, Palmview, Palmwoods, Peregian Beach, Sippy Downs and the rest of the coast: all suburbs.