The ledger — Cost guide + Cut Planner

What concrete cutting costs around Littleton — printed, with the arithmetic showing

These are planning ranges for the Greater Boston / Middlesex County market, checked October 2026, stated with their assumptions. They are not quotes and not a contractor's price list. Their job is narrower and more useful: to let you plan, compare a quote's shape, and spot the line item a too-cheap quote has quietly left out. The Cut Planner below computes from exactly these printed numbers — change an input and the arithmetic it prints is the arithmetic you can re-check by hand.

The printed rate ledger

Work	Unit	Planning range	Assumptions printed with the rate
Core drilling — 2 in. diameter	per hole	$140 – $210	Floor work, first 8 in. of depth included
Core drilling — 4 in. diameter	per hole	$185 – $280	Floor work, first 8 in. of depth included
Core drilling — 6 in. diameter	per hole	$240 – $360	Floor work, first 8 in. of depth included
Core drilling — 8 in. diameter	per hole	$320 – $480	Floor work, first 8 in. of depth included
Core drilling — 12 in. diameter	per hole	$480 – $720	Floor work, first 8 in. of depth included
Core drilling — depth beyond 8 in.	per added inch, per hole	$18 – $27	Applies to each inch over 8, each hole
Slab sawing — slab to 6 in. thick	per linear ft	$14 – $22	Cured concrete, exterior or open floor
Slab sawing — slab 7–9 in. thick	per linear ft	$20 – $31	Cured concrete
Slab sawing — slab 10–12 in. thick	per linear ft	$28 – $42	Cured concrete; thicker work quoted per job
Wall sawing — wall to 8 in. thick	per linear ft	$38 – $58	Track-mounted; price follows opening perimeter
Wall sawing — wall 9–12 in. thick	per linear ft	$52 – $78	Track-mounted; thicker walls quoted per job
Reinforcement adjustment — welded mesh	multiplier	x 1.10	Applied to the cutting subtotal
Reinforcement adjustment — rebar	multiplier	x 1.25	Applied to the cutting subtotal; post-tension is never multiplied — it stops the job for scanning
Restricted access adjustment	multiplier	x 1.20	Stairs/lift access, long hose runs, hand-carried equipment
Interior slurry control — coring	flat per visit	$75 – $120	Containment, wet vacuum, finish protection
Interior slurry control — sawing	flat per visit	$120 – $200	Containment, wet vacuum, finish protection
Mobilization minimum	per visit	$450 – $650	Floor under every job: truck, operator, first setup. Small jobs bill at the minimum

Not in the ledger, deliberately: wire sawing, chain sawing beyond corner finishing, scanning visits, removal and disposal, patching, and engineering. Each is real scope with its own pricing logic, explained on its own page — a single blended “per foot” for them would be a fiction.

The Cut Planner

Pick the work, enter the measurements you have, and read the itemized range. Incomplete measurements produce a wider, honest answer — or, for post-tension, no answer at all, on purpose.

Worked example, by hand

The factors that move a real quote

• Thickness found vs thickness stated — a “6-inch slab” that is 9 inches at the cut reprices the per-foot band. Operators verify with a test core or edge.
• Rebar size and congestion — mesh is a nuisance; #5 bars at 6 inches on center in two mats is a different day.
• Greater Boston labor and mobilization — travel on Rt 2 / 495, parking, and site rules in occupied facilities are real time, priced as such.
• Water, power, and disposal — sites that cannot supply water or power add a generator/water setup; slurry disposal requirements vary by facility.
• Batching — the mobilization minimum is per visit. Every hole and cut list combined into one visit shares one minimum; three small visits pay it three times.

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