Residential Demolition
We tear down houses, mobile homes, and double wides across the Midlands. Full size excavators and dozers do the work, and the lot is left graded and clean. Free estimates from our West Columbia shop.
Service Area
Dirt Cheap is a demolition contractor working in Irmo, South Carolina. Irmo sits on the Lexington and Richland county line, about twelve miles northwest of downtown Columbia. Most of Irmo went up during one long building boom. In the 29212 area, more houses were built in the 1970s than in any decade since. The 1980s ran a close second. Friarsgate, Seven Oaks, Whitehall and the Harbison side all date from that stretch. Those houses are pushing fifty years old now. Roofs fail and attic fires happen. Pools crack and go green. Carports lean and sheds rot. A detached garage that flooded twice stops being worth saving. Out toward Ballentine and Lake Murray, older cottages sit on lots worth more than the house. That mix of aging structures and valuable dirt is what keeps teardown work steady in Irmo.
We are a family run company with our shop on Edmund Highway in West Columbia. Our crew runs the equipment and is on the job site every day. Irmo is about twenty minutes up I-26 from our shop. We bring full size excavators, dozers and a tri-axle Kenworth dump truck with trailers. Debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job. Our demolition work covers take an old ranch house down to bare dirt and older retail buildings and church property. Besides teardowns we cut the grade so runoff leaves the yard and set a gravel drive on a proper base. We clear lots and dig storm drain lines too. Estimates are free. Call (803) 796-4727.
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A 1970s ranch in Friarsgate can be worth less than the ground under it. Once a roof goes or a fire runs through the attic, the repair math stops working. Estate sales, insurance claims and investor buys often land in the same place. The structure comes down and the lot gets cleaned up for whatever goes next. Local governments run into the same problem with dilapidated and burnt houses. We tear those down under municipal contracts around the Midlands. We also take down pools, carports, storage buildings and old brick outbuildings. Plenty of those sit on lots that are otherwise fine.
A teardown starts with a look at access. We need room for a full size excavator and a tri-axle truck. Older Irmo yards have narrow gates and mature oaks, with houses set close together. We check that before we quote. Utilities get disconnected first, and the septic tank gets located and marked. Then the machine works the structure down in sections and loads the material out. The hole gets backfilled and the ground gets shaped so it sheds water. Michelle Gumm said in her Google review: "Contracted them to demolish a double wide on my property. They did it quickly and cleaned up great. Even brought in fill to level the area out. Marked the septic system as required."
Irmo sits in the Dutch Fork, the wedge of land between the Saluda and Broad rivers. Soil up this way came off weathered granite and gneiss, so it runs to heavy red clay. Clay sheds water instead of soaking it up. In subdivisions built forty and fifty years ago, the original swales have flattened out. Downspouts empty next to the slab and the ground has settled toward the house. Yards stay soft for days after a Midlands thunderstorm. Some of that is regrading. Some of it means digging up and replacing a storm drain line. Jared Smith said in his Google review: "Storm drain repair for apartment complex fixed twice, both required a large excavation. Did both jobs quickly and for a great price."
Out past Ballentine and along the Lake Murray shoreline, lots get bigger and drives get longer. Gravel makes sense at that length, and it holds up on clay when the base is built right. Work at the water line is a different animal. The utility that manages the Lake Murray shoreline has to approve shoreline work in writing first. Permits depend on geography too. Irmo straddles the county line, so some addresses answer to the Lexington County building department. Others answer to the Richland County building department. Property inside town limits also goes through Irmo planning and zoning. We sort out which office a job answers to before the machines roll. We do the same in Columbia to the southeast and Lexington across the dam. The rest of it is on the full map of towns we cover.
Communities & areas we serve around Irmo: Friarsgate, Harbison, Seven Oaks, Ballentine, Whitehall, Woodland Hills, Murraywood, Ascot Estates, Beacon Point, Milford Park.
Irmo ZIP codes served: 29063, 29212, 29210.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Lexington and Richland Counties.
(803) 796-4727 We tear down houses, mobile homes, and double wides across the Midlands. Full size excavators and dozers do the work, and the lot is left graded and clean. Free estimates from our West Columbia shop.
Dirt Cheap tears down commercial buildings across the South Carolina Midlands. Strip malls, churches, warehouses and condemned structures come down with full-size excavators and dozers. We work out of a shop in West Columbia.
We clear wooded and overgrown lots across the Midlands, half acre house sites and multi acre tracts alike. Full size excavators and dozers take out the trees, the brush, and the stumps. Our shop is in West Columbia and estimates are free.
Grading and site prep out of our West Columbia shop. We cut building pads, level low yards, and reshape wet ground so water runs off. Estimates are free anywhere in the Midlands.
Dirt Cheap digs site excavation, utility and drainage trenches, and storm drain repairs across the Midlands. Our shop sits in West Columbia, and we run full size excavators and dozers. Estimates are free.
We install gravel driveways across the Midlands, on short residential lots and on quarter mile rural drives. Our crew strips the soft topsoil first, then builds the stone base in packed lifts. We also regrade rutted drives and top them back up with fresh stone.
Real reviews from real demolition, excavation and site work jobs on Google.
Storm drain repair for apartment complex fixed twice, both required a large excavation. Did both jobs quickly and for a great price. Would highly recommend.
Awesome Company. Contracted them to demolish a double wide on my property. They did it quickly and cleaned up great. Even brought in fill to level the area out. Marked the septic system as required.
Stop looking. You've found the most reliable, dependable and honest company for all of your hauling and clearing needs and beyond. Awesome folks to deal with through and through.
I have had them complete two jobs and they were here right away, completed and cleaned up immediately. Great people to deal with and very pleased with the jobs. Highly recommend.
I had an emergency involving my mobile home, not only was it after hours when they made the decision to come help me. The next morning they showed up and went above and beyond their call of duty as far as the job I hired them to do. Great people, fantastic work!
Great company to work with, very responsive and will make sure the job is done right!!
A few of the questions we hear most around Irmo. Don't see yours? Call the office and ask.
A structure that needs to come down, a lot that needs clearing, a driveway that needs help, a septic system going in? Call or send the form and we will come look at the property and price the job. The estimate is free.
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