House Demolition
We tear down houses and the outbuildings around them, like a detached garage or an old barn. The debris is loaded and hauled off, and the lot is left clear.
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Hope Mills grew up as a cotton mill town on Little Rockfish Creek, about seven miles south of Fayetteville. Its oldest blocks sit near the lake, around Trade Street and the old mill village. The town's 2025 strategic plan looks for new uses for vacant and dilapidated parcels on Historic Trade Street. Work on a lot like that often starts when an old house or slab comes down.
Hollingsworth and Son Construction is a demolition contractor serving Fayetteville, Raeford and the surrounding counties. Hope Mills is part of our service area. Our house demolition work takes down houses, garages, barns and sheds by machine, and lot clearing opens up overgrown lots. Call or text (910) 527-1108, and we look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the building, lot or land and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Hope Mills is mostly a town of single-family homes. Census estimates count 6,850 housing units, and about 76 percent are detached houses. The median home was built in 1995. About 27 percent went up before 1980, and about 6 percent before 1960.
The oldest homes sit downtown, in the Hope Mills Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1985. Part of its mill village was built around 1919 as one-story frame duplexes for mill workers. Those houses were sold to private owners in 1954. None of the town's old textile mills still run, and each one was destroyed or put to another use.
The Census counted 15,176 people in Hope Mills in 2010 and 17,808 in 2020. The 2025 estimate is 18,324. Census permit data shows 149 new housing units permitted in the town in 2024. On an older lot, a new house starts with the teardown and the clearing.
Inside the town limits, the Town of Hope Mills Inspections Department issues demolition permits. It enforces the North Carolina State Building Code. Its demolition application lists what has to be in hand before a permit is issued. If the building sits in the Hope Mills Historic District, ask the town's planning staff before you set a date.
Each utility gives written clearance first: electric, gas, water and sewer, and telephone, plus the health department. Where it applies, an asbestos inspector accredited by the state confirms there is no asbestos, or that it was removed. That inspection is the owner's step before the teardown, and any removal is a separate asbestos company's job.
The form also asks how the debris travels and which disposal site takes it. State law requires notice to NC 811 at least three full working days before any digging or demolition. The utilities mark their public lines, but a private line, like propane to the house, needs a private locator.
Much of Hope Mills sits on deep sand. The NRCS soil survey maps fast-draining Lakeland and Candor sands across large parts of the town. Along Little Rockfish Creek, much of the bottomland is Johnston loam. The survey rates that soil very poorly drained and frequently flooded.
FEMA's flood map puts the land along Little Rockfish Creek and Rockfish Creek in Zone AE. That zone carries a 1 percent chance of flooding in any year. Look up the address on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center before a teardown or a clearing job.
For acreage around Hope Mills, land clearing takes out trees and stumps with a dozer and an excavator. State law requires an approved erosion and sedimentation control plan before work that disturbs more than one acre. The town's plan review lists NC DEQ, the state environmental agency, for that approval. Moving or filling a ditch or a natural watercourse in town takes a town drainage permit first.
Town sanitation will not take construction material such as drywall, doors, shingles or tubs. Weekly yard waste pickup covers limb piles up to 5 feet by 5 feet by 3 feet. A teardown or a cleared lot makes far more than that. With debris removal, we load it by machine and haul it to the proper facility.
Open burning is unlawful inside the town limits, with a short list of exceptions. A fire for land clearing is one, and it takes a town permit. We haul or pile the cleared material, and the written quote says which.
Taking out a driveway at a town street can need a right-of-way permit from public works. Removing curbing takes a site inspection and the department's approval first. On a state road such as Main Street, the permit comes from NCDOT instead. Ask that question early when you plan concrete removal for a driveway.
Communities and areas we serve around Hope Mills: Historic Trade Street District, Mill District, Hope Mills Lake, Heritage Park, Hope Mills Municipal Park, Golfview Greenway, Main Street, Rockfish Road, Golfview Road, Camden Road, Hope Mills Road, Legion Road.
Hope Mills ZIP codes served: 28348, 28306, 28304, 28371.
Hope Mills is part of our service area. We look at the job first, then put the quote in writing.
(910) 527-1108 We tear down houses and the outbuildings around them, like a detached garage or an old barn. The debris is loaded and hauled off, and the lot is left clear.
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We take down small and mid-size commercial buildings with an excavator and a dozer. The debris gets hauled off, and the site is left clear for the rebuild.
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We break up old driveways, slabs, patios and sidewalks by machine and haul the concrete off. Old foundations and footings left after a teardown come out the same way.
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We clear wooded and overgrown acreage with a dozer and an excavator. The stumps come out, and the cleared material is hauled off or piled.
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We clear single lots in town, including overgrown lots and the lot left after a teardown. Trees and stumps come out by machine, and the ground is rough-leveled for what comes next.
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We dig trenches and ditches and take old slabs and footings out of the ground. Dirt gets moved and spread where the job needs it, around Fayetteville and Raeford.
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We push cleared brush into piles and rough grade the ground level. We also spread fill dirt and backfill the low spots after a teardown.
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We load demolition and construction debris by machine and haul it off the property. Brush from a clearing and broken concrete are part of the work too.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Hope Mills. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the job and the town it is in. Call or text (910) 527-1108 or use the form, and we will set a time to look at it.
Tell us about the building, lot or land and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.