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Originally Posted by mpolli
I wonder how much to grind it smooth? That's a pretty big area. You might get a quote on busting it out and repouring. I don't think I'd want to do that myself.
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Probably to thin, those old slabs are often skim coats. Concrete is heavy when doing it by hand. So the old guys often cheated, at least from what I have seen.
Can you get a cement truck close enough to pour it? Can they get the shoot in? Mixing that much concrete is for the birds, buy it by the yard off a truck. Its not that much.
Just remember the trucks weigh 80k pounds, so they will do some damage to your driveway, like break it into ruts...
Its a horrible job, so I would pay someone to break it up and shovel it out. Than load it into the dumptruck with the backhoe myself. I wouldn't dig out much, since you could undermine the footings. Just lay down some plastic and rebar and pour a new 4in slab. Pouring concrete sucks, I'd have our concrete guys do it.