What concrete cutting costs in the Jackson metro
Core drilling runs $300 to $800 for a service call and $600 to $1,500 for a batch, slab sawing runs $6 to $12 per linear foot on typical slabs, wall openings run $1,500 to $3,500 and everything else is on the sheet below. What moves a job inside its range is nearly always depth and steel: a four inch interior slab and an eight inch dock slab with heavy rebar are different days at the same address. A tape measure at any joint plus layout photos turns the range into a firm written number, usually the same day.
Every rate includes the operator, equipment, blades and bits, water management and cleanup, with no travel charge anywhere in the metro. Payment follows the work, nothing due before the truck arrives, and the invoice reconciles against this sheet line by line.
The published sheet
| Job | Typical range | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Photo quote or site walk | Free | Nothing moves it. Layout photos plus a thickness measurement answer most jobs same-day. |
| Core drill, single hole (up to 6 in dia) | $300 - $500 | Slab thickness and access; overhead and wall cores price at the top. |
| Core drills, 1 to 3 holes | $300 - $800 | The service-call band; most plumbing and conduit jobs live here. |
| Core batch, 4 to 10 holes, same visit | $600 - $1,500 | Batching wins: the setup is paid once and every extra hole gets cheaper. |
| Large-diameter cores (8 to 14 in) | $450 - $800 each | Bit size and depth; HVAC and plumbing stacks are the usual buyers. |
| Slab sawing, per linear foot (4 to 6 in slab) | $6 - $12 | Depth and steel content; heavy rebar slows every foot. |
| Slab trench cut, typical interior run | $800 - $2,500 | Length, depth and haul-off choice; thick dock slab tops the band. |
| Slot cutting for conduit, per linear foot | $8 - $15 | Narrow, shallow, clean; priced by the marked run. |
| Wall sawing, per linear foot | $30 - $60 | Wall thickness and reinforcement; block walls sit low, poured walls high. |
| Wall opening: standard door or window | $1,500 - $3,500 | The packaged version of wall sawing with corners finished square. |
| Sidewalk, curb or driveway cuts | $250 - $900 | Per cut set; ADA ramp prep and utility openings are the usual orders. |
| Demolition-prep sectioning | $1,200 - $6,000 | Cutting structures into liftable pieces; rigging coordination included. |
| Wire sawing / massive sections, project | $2,500 - $10,000+ | The heavy setup for what flat and wall saws cannot reach; quoted per project. |
| Occupied-site dust and slurry control | +$150 - $400 | Containment, vacuum recovery and floor protection where the site demands it. |
| Utility scan coordination (GPR) | $400 - $800 pass-through | Before suspect slabs; the cheapest insurance in this trade. |
| Same-day or after-hours priority | +$400 - $900 | Bumps the schedule for a waiting crew; the honest cost of the bump. |
Rates cover commercial, industrial, municipal and contractor-driven residential work across the metro. Every quote names the cut type, dimensions and depth assumptions so bids can be compared honestly.
The three questions that price your cut
How thick, and what is in it? Depth drives time almost linearly, and reinforcement multiplies it: mesh is nothing, moderate rebar is routine, heavy mats slow every foot. The unknowns that actually cost money are embedded conduit and post-tension cables, which is why suspect slabs get scanned first, the $400 to $800 pass-through that has never once been the expensive option.
Where does the cut happen? An open outdoor pad takes the friendly end of every band. Occupied interiors need containment, vacuum recovery and often off-hours windows, priced as the occupied-site line. Wet cutting with vacuum pickup is also how interior work meets the federal silica rule, documented at osha.gov/silica-crystalline, and a cutter who runs dry indoors is volunteering your building for a citation.
How fast does the crew need it? Standard scheduling lands within days. The same-day premium exists because cutting is the step everyone else waits on, and bumping a booked job has a real cost that the sheet states instead of hiding. Industry practice for methods and safety follows the Concrete Sawing and Drilling Association’s standards at csda.org, which is the trade body worth asking any cutter about.
Where the money actually goes
Diamond tooling is consumed by the foot, and depth-plus-steel decides how fast. Roughly a third of a typical job is blades and bits wearing away, a third is the rig and the operator’s hands and the rest is everything that makes the cut professional: layout discipline, water control, containment and the cleanup that leaves the next trade a workable slab. Cheap cutting shaves the last third, and the building feels it.
Jackson Concrete Cutting publishes this sheet so a super can put a number in a bid without a phone call and an owner can check the invoice against a public page. Start at the contractors page for bid and scheduling mechanics, or send layout photos through the form and we will price the cut against the sheet.
Price your cut
The address plus layout photos and a thickness measurement gets you a firm written number, usually today.