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 Orangeburg, South Carolina. Orangeburg is the county seat of Orangeburg County, and the housing here shows its age. Older frame houses sit in Sunnyside and Bolen Town. More line the East Russell Street Area near downtown. Some have stood empty for years. Roofs fail and floors rot. The city ends up with condemned buildings on its list. Out past Wilkinson Heights and Brookdale, mobile homes make up a large share of the housing. Almost a third of the homes in the county are manufactured units. When one is worn out, it has to come off the lot before anything new goes on. Older commercial buildings line the Russell Street and Chestnut Street corridors. When one of those goes vacant, the owner faces the same decision.
Dirt Cheap is a family run business based in West Columbia, about a forty five minute drive from Orangeburg. Our crew runs the equipment and is on the job site every day. The business is family owned and woman owned. Our machines are full-size excavators and dozers built for demolition. We also run a tri-axle Kenworth dump truck with trailers. Debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job. In Orangeburg we take down houses and mobile homes and clear out closed commercial buildings. We also open up grown over lots and install new septic systems. Estimates are free. Call (803) 796-4727 and tell us what is sitting on the property.
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The City of Orangeburg tracks buildings that fall below minimum building code. A leaking roof and years of water damage will put a structure on that list. Orangeburg County works through its own dilapidated house cases out in the rural areas. Downtown adds a second layer. The city has been rebuilding the Russell Street corridor, including the Railroad Corner block at Boulevard. That block sat derelict for years before the city broke ground on it. Claflin University and South Carolina State sit a few blocks away. Plans for Russell and Amelia streets call for more housing and ground floor retail.
Tearing down condemned and burnt houses for local governments is work our crew already does. A burnt house is its own kind of job. The framing is unsound, so nobody should be standing inside it. We reach in with a full-size excavator from solid ground. Utilities get cut and capped before anything comes down. Then the building comes down in a controlled way and the lot gets raked clean. A demolition permit comes from the city or from the Orangeburg County building department. Which one depends on where the property sits. We tell you what has to be lined up before the machines roll in.
Orangeburg County covers more than eleven hundred square miles. Most of it is farmland and pine woods. Towns like Cordova and Bowman sit outside any city sewer line. A house out there runs on its own septic system. A worn out system gets a full replacement, installed to the permit design approved for that lot. A soil evaluation sets the system type before anything gets dug. The ground here helps. Orangeburg sits on the coastal plain, where the soil is a deep sandy loam. The Orangeburg soil series is named for this county, and it drains well. That is different from the red clay closer to Columbia.
Land clearing runs on the same kind of schedule. A field grows back in scrub pine and sweetgum within a few years. Before a shop or a new house goes up, that growth has to come off. Dozers push it into piles and the stumps get pulled out. Then the pad gets shaped so water runs away from the building. Fence lines and old logging roads get opened back up the same way. We look at the property before quoting. The price matches what is actually standing on the lot. The same machines work jobs up in Columbia and west in Aiken.
Communities & areas we serve around Orangeburg: Wilkinson Heights, Brookdale, Sunnyside, Jamison, Bolen Town, Pecan Way Terrace, Country Club Plantation, The Landing, East Russell Street Area.
Orangeburg ZIP codes served: 29115, 29116, 29117, 29118.
Free, no-obligation estimates throughout Orangeburg County.
(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.
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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 Orangeburg. 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.
Tell us about the structure, lot or job and we will get right back to you.