Commercial Demolition
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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House demolition is a typical job at Hollingsworth and Son Construction, where demolition is the main line of work. Homeowners and property owners call us when a house has burned or is past saving. We are a demolition contractor serving Fayetteville, Raeford and the towns around them.
House demolition here means the whole structure comes down by machine, with an excavator and a dozer. A typical house comes down in a day or two. The debris is loaded and hauled off, and lot clearing takes care of what is left on the ground.
Tell us about the building, lot or land and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
A teardown starts with paperwork, well before the machines arrive. State law says a building comes down only after its permits are in place. Inside Fayetteville's city limits, the demolition permit comes from Permitting and Inspections in the city's Development Services department.
Fayetteville's permit form has a signature line for each utility on a complete demolition. State law also gives utility owners time to remove or protect their lines first. A notice to North Carolina 811 goes in at least three full working days before the teardown starts.
The state's Health Hazards Control Unit recommends an asbestos inspection before any house is torn down. You set up that inspection, and the inspector must be accredited by the state. If the report finds asbestos that has to come out, an abatement company removes it first.
With the permit in hand and the utilities off, the machines go to work. The excavator, or track hoe, pulls the house down and loads the debris as it goes.
Once the house is down, the slab or foundation can come out too. Breaking up old slabs and footings is concrete removal, and it runs on the same job. A dozer then backfills the low spots and levels the ground.
Everything that comes down is loaded by machine and hauled off. That haul is our debris removal work, and it comes with every teardown. What you get back is a clear lot.
Fayetteville has a lot of older houses. About 44 percent of the city's homes were built before 1980, by Census counts. Federal job-safety rules treat pipe insulation and vinyl floor tile from 1980 or earlier as asbestos until tested. That is one more reason to set up the asbestos inspection early.
Condemned houses are part of our demolition work. Under state law, a city can order an unfit house repaired or torn down after a hearing. If the order goes unmet, the city can tear it down and put a lien on the property. Fayetteville's demolition permit form even asks whether a teardown was ordered by code enforcement or the City Council.
Fire-damaged houses come down by machine like any other teardown. The burned framing and the rest of the debris are hauled off together. If a city order has set a deadline on your house, call or text (910) 527-1108.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 50 miles around Fayetteville across the Sandhills and southeastern North Carolina.
(910) 527-1108From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (910) 527-1108. Tell us what needs doing and where the property is.
We come out and look at the building or the land. We check how the machines get in and where the debris goes.
You get the work and the price in writing. The job goes on the schedule when you say go.
Before a teardown, the permit and the asbestos inspection come first. Any digging or demolition also waits on an NC 811 notice. Then the machines go to work.
The debris gets loaded and hauled off. The site is left the way the written quote describes.
Common questions about house demolition around Fayetteville and the Sandhills. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.
Learn MoreThe teardown, the concrete removal, the hauling and the lot clearing all come from us. You make one call for the whole job.
Houses and outbuildings come down by machine, and so do commercial buildings. Fire-damaged and condemned houses are part of that work.
We look at the job before we put a price on it. The quote then comes to you in writing, so you see the work and the price before anything starts.
Fayetteville sits at the center of our service area, and Raeford is part of it too. The area reaches north to Sanford and Dunn and south to Lumberton and Laurinburg.
House demolition in North Carolina runs about $4 to $10 a square foot in national cost guides. See what asbestos and landfill fees add near Fayetteville.
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Concrete removal runs $2 to $8 per square foot in national cost guides. See how thickness, rebar, access and disposal move the price in North Carolina.
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Construction debris removal cost in North Carolina: dumpster rental vs. a crew by the load, landfill fees per ton around Fayetteville, and what can go in.
Read more →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.