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.
House, mobile home and commercial teardowns by a family owned West Columbia company. Land clearing, grading, excavation, gravel driveways, concrete and septic installs across the Midlands.
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West Columbia, SC · Serving the Midlands Dirt Cheap is a family owned demolition company working out of a shop on Edmund Highway in West Columbia, with our own crew on the machines every day. The equipment is the real thing: full size CASE excavators, dozers and a tri axle Kenworth dump truck. That is what it takes to drop a two story house, a burnt shell or an old strip mall and leave the lot clean. The same machines handle dirt work, land clearing and septic installs, so one call covers the whole site.
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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!!
Look at the equipment first. Plenty of crews around Columbia will bid a teardown with a mini excavator and a rented dumpster. A real demolition contractor shows up with machines rated for the building in front of them. Our CASE excavators take down houses, mobile homes and double wides in hours, and they have brought down churches, strip malls and condemned buildings for towns and counties. The debris goes straight into our own dump trailers as the structure comes apart. You are not waiting a week for someone else's roll off.
Then look at what happens after the building is down. A teardown is not finished at the slab. We break out and load the concrete, pull the footings, and fill and grade the hole so the lot drains right. If the ground needs more, the crew stays on it: brush and tree clearing for the rest of the parcel, pad grading for the next build, trenching and storm drain digs, even a full septic system where sewer does not reach. Finish trades are covered too, with gravel drives and concrete flatwork.
And look for a local outfit that picks up when you call. We are family and woman owned, based on the Lexington County side of the river, and we work about a 50 mile circle around the shop. That keeps us in Columbia, Lexington, Cayce, Irmo and the towns between, with room to reach Sumter, Aiken, Orangeburg and Camden. Estimates are free, written, and priced from the property, not from a phone script.
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.
Teardowns, dirt work and the finishing trades that get a lot ready, all across the Midlands.
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.
Call for a free, no obligation estimate. We look at the property in person and price the whole job.
From 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.
Real photos from our own jobs around the Midlands.
Based in Lexington County, we cover Lexington, Richland, Aiken, Orangeburg, Newberry, Kershaw and Sumter counties: the communities below and the towns between them.
The questions Midlands property owners ask us most. If yours is not here, call and ask. The estimate and the answer are both free.

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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.
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