Concreter in Preston
The typical Preston concreting quote starts with something failing: an original driveway cracked and dropped, or a front path past saving. We price the removal and the new pour as one job from our Coburg base.
About 10 minutes from our Coburg base.
Concreting Services in Preston
Rip-out work sits at the front of the Preston queue, so concrete removal and replacement is the page to start on. The re-pour is where concrete driveways and concrete slabs and shed bases come in, one quote covering both halves of the job.
Concrete Removal and Replacement in Preston
Concrete removal and replacement in Preston is the bread-and-butter job: the original driveway or path has cracked, dropped at the joints or spalled through the surface, and patching would only chase the damage around. Breaking out is the straightforward part on these blocks. Street access is workable and most driveways run straight off the road, so machinery does the heavy lifting and the old slab leaves in a tipper. Once it's out, the ground gets inspected and re-compacted, because a re-pour is only as good as what sits under it. Then the new surface goes down, driveway, path or both together, with the mesh, joints and drainage fall set out on the quote. The concrete removal and replacement page walks through how the break-out and re-pour run as a single job.
How We Work
The steps are the same across every suburb we cover.
- 01
Enquiry.
Send the quote form through, or call [PHONE-TBD], with the suburb, a rough size and what's on the ground now.
- 02
Site visit and measure-up.
A local concreter walks the job with you, measures it, and checks where trucks or a pump can sit.
- 03
Itemised quote.
The price comes back in writing, worked off the measure, with removal, prep and finish set out line by line.
- 04
Prep and pour.
Old concrete out if it's going, then base, formwork, mesh and the pour.
- 05
Cure and handover.
The concreter tells you how long to keep cars and foot traffic off while the new surface gains strength, and the site is left tidy.
It starts with the get a quote form or a phone call.
Preston Concreting FAQs
Do you remove old cracked concrete driveways in Preston?
Old cracked driveways are the most removed item in Preston. The concrete gets broken out by machine, loaded straight into a tipper and carted off site, and the ground underneath re-compacted ready for the new pour. Preston's open frontages keep the machine work quick, and removal is quoted together with the replacement so you see one number for the whole change-over.
How much does it cost to replace a concrete driveway in Preston?
Replacing a Preston driveway costs more than pouring on clear ground, because the removal comes first and is quoted as its own line. For the new surface, the market range sits at $65 to $150 per square metre supplied and laid, per published Australian concreting cost guides, compiled July 2026. The concrete driveway cost guide breaks down what moves the number.
Can you re-pour a driveway and front path in Preston in one job?
A driveway and front path re-pour combines well in Preston, and it's how a lot of jobs here get quoted. The machinery that lifts the driveway takes the path in the same session, and both surfaces pour to the same plan, so the finish matches instead of the path reading as an afterthought in different-looking concrete. One quote, one site set-up, one consistent result.
Which suburbs does Northside Concreting cover?
Northside Concreting covers homes within roughly 10 to 15 km of Coburg: Brunswick, Coburg North, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Reservoir, Thornbury, Northcote, Glenroy, Fawkner and Essendon, plus Coburg itself. Just outside that list? Ask anyway. If the drive is workable we quote it, and if it isn't we say so.
Nearby Suburbs We Also Service
Preston borders three more suburbs we cover: Concreting in Reservoir to the north, Concreter in Thornbury to the south and Concreter in Coburg North across the creek. Every area is listed at all service areas.
Working in Preston
Preston's housing stock is solid and settled, and a lot of it still carries the concrete it was first laid with. That original surface is what brings most people here to a quote: a driveway that has cracked clean through and dropped until it ponds water instead of shedding it, well past the point where patching buys anything. On these blocks the question is rarely whether it comes out. It's what goes back in its place.
Access takes the drama out of the removal. Streets are wide enough to stage a tipper legally, front yards are open enough for a bobcat to work, and most driveways run straight from the street, so the break-out runs on machinery, and machinery is quick. Old concrete leaves a Preston block faster than most owners expect.
The replacement is where the thinking goes. A re-pour is the chance to fix what the original never had: mesh through the slab, control joints where movement wants to happen, fall that takes water to the street instead of the front door. The new driveway isn't a like-for-like copy; it's the corrected version of what was there. Quoted off a site measure, priced with the removal in the same document, and planned so the block only gets disrupted once.
If there's a driveway, slab or path on the cards at your Preston home, send the details through. Quotes are free, and we'll be in touch within one business day.