House demolition is the full teardown of a home, down to bare dirt. We take down houses, mobile homes, and double wides for property owners around West Columbia and Columbia. Some have burned. Some sat empty for years and went past fixing. Others are old mobile homes that must be off the lot before a new one is set. What sits under the house comes out too, from the slab to the concrete steps.
Dirt Cheap is a family owned and woman owned business with a shop on Edmund Hwy in West Columbia. Our crew runs the equipment and is on the job site every day, and our office handles the schedule. We work with full size excavators, dozers, and a tri-axle dump truck with trailers. Most jobs sit inside about 50 miles of the shop. That takes in Lexington, Cayce, and the rest of the Midlands. Estimates are free, so call (803) 796-4727 and tell us what needs to come down.
Tell us about the structure, lot or job and we will get right back to you.
It starts with a look at the property. We come out, see the structure, check how close the machines can get, and price the job. Brittany Gantt said in her Google review: "I had an emergency involving my mobile home, not only was it after hours when they made the decision to come help me. They helped me figure out a solution to fix my problem." Before anything comes down, power, water, and gas have to be cut at the source by the utility. If the lot is grown up around the house, we clear the brush and trees off first.
Then the machines go to work. A full size excavator pulls the walls and roof in on themselves. The pile drops in one place instead of spreading across the yard. Metal, appliances, and anything that has to stay separate get pulled out. The slab, the concrete steps, and the block piers come out with the house. Debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job. The last step is fill and grade. If you are building back, we can shape the pad for what comes next.
House demolition cost starts with size, and a single wide is a different job than a two story brick house. What the house is built of matters too, because brick and block carry more weight than wood frame. Then there is what sits under it, like a slab, a crawl space, or block piers. Access moves the number as well. A tight city lot with power lines overhead takes more setup than a wide open yard. If a full size excavator and a truck can park beside the house, the work goes faster.
Debris volume matters, and so does the run to a disposal site. Extra structures add to it, like a detached garage, an in ground pool, or an old concrete driveway. Buried pipe and old tanks turn part of the day into dig work with the same machines. Permit fees and utility disconnects sit with the county and the utility company. Machine size shows up in the price too, since a house comes down in fewer passes with the right excavator. We price a teardown after we look at it in person. Estimates are free, so call (803) 796-4727.
Houses and mobile homes are most of this work. We also take out detached garages, barns, sheds, and in ground pools. A pool gets drained, broken up, and backfilled, so the yard is solid ground again. Fire damaged houses come down the same way, with the burnt material kept apart from the rest. Storefronts and churches follow a different set of rules, and we handle those under a commercial scope. For a large demolition project we will travel anywhere in South Carolina.
Midlands ground is red clay, and it holds water after a hard rain. A wet lot can bog down a loaded truck, so we watch the weather and plan the days around it. Clay also settles, so a hole left behind needs fill and packing. County rules matter as well. Most teardowns need a permit from the county building department, and some of the paperwork comes from the state. The septic tank and well have to be marked before the machines move. 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."
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Midlands, from our West Columbia shop.
(803) 796-4727From the first call to clean ground, here is how it goes.
Tell us what you need gone or built: a house, a mobile home, an overgrown lot, a driveway, a septic system. Our office gets you on the schedule fast.
We come see the property, look at access and what has to leave, and give you a written number. The estimate is free and the price covers the work we agreed on.
Our crew runs the equipment on site. Full size excavators and dozers handle the teardown or dirt work, and debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job.
The site gets graded out, filled where it needs it, and left ready for what comes next: a new build, a driveway, a septic system or just a clean lot.
Common questions about residential demolition across the Midlands. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
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.
Dirt Cheap pours concrete driveways, patios, walkways, and slabs around West Columbia. Our excavators strip and pack the ground before any concrete goes down. Estimates are free.
Full size CASE excavators, dozers and a tri axle Kenworth dump truck. Machines sized for two story houses, commercial buildings and whole lots. A mini excavator crew cannot do this work.
One contractor takes the structure down, clears the lot, brings in fill, grades it flat and can finish with gravel, concrete or a septic system. No handoffs between companies, no waiting on a second crew.
Hauling off the mess is part of the job, on our own trucks. The site gets cleaned as the teardown happens, so when the machines load up and leave, the lot is done.
The shop sits on Edmund Highway, so Columbia, Lexington and Cayce are minutes away. Family and woman owned. Call and you talk to our office, not a call center.
Yes. Columbia requires a separate demolition permit for every structure, West Columbia lists $50 residential, Lexington County charges $21. What goes in the packet, the SCDES asbestos rule and what a missed permit costs.
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Read more →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.