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 Camden, South Carolina, and across Kershaw County. Camden is the oldest inland city in the state. That age shows in the building stock. Downtown blocks near Broad Street hold houses and storefronts that went up before 1940. The Kirkwood streets north of the center hold large old homes on deep lots. The Historic Camden museum grounds sit at the south end of Broad Street. Most of Camden rests on Sandhills ground, loose sand over clay, sloping toward the Wateree River floodplain. Older houses here get left empty or damaged by fire. Double-wides sit on family land long after the roof gives out. Horse farms near Springdale Race Course and Knights Hill Road keep barns and sheds that outlived their use. All of it comes down with real machines, and the ground gets put back flat.
Dirt Cheap is a family business out of West Columbia. Our crew runs the equipment and is on the job site every day, and the business is woman owned. Camden sits about 37 miles up I-20 from our shop, close to a 40 minute drive. We bring full-size excavators and dozers, plus a tri-axle Kenworth dump truck with trailers. Debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job. Around Camden we take down houses, barns and double-wides. We clear brush and trees off a tract and shape the dirt so water runs off. When the ground is ready we put in a gravel drive. Estimates are free. Call (803) 796-4727 and tell us what you have.
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Every teardown inside the city limits needs a permit from the City of Camden building department. Outside the city, that paperwork goes through the Kershaw County building department. Downtown Camden also sits inside a historic overlay district. Work on or near a listed property gets an extra review first. Property owners handle that approval step with the city. We build our schedule around whatever the approved plan says. About one in ten Camden houses went up before 1940, and the median home dates to around 1975. Older buildings take more checking before the machines move. Power, gas and water get cut and confirmed by the utility. On rural lots we find the septic tank and drain field first, and heavy equipment stays off them.
On the day, a full-size excavator takes the structure down in sections rather than dropping it at once. That keeps the debris inside the footprint and off the fence line. Materials get separated as the pile comes apart. Then the hole gets filled and the pad gets leveled so the lot drains again. 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."
Camden runs on acreage. Horse farms sit along Knights Hill Road near Springdale Race Course and the Camden Country Club. Lake Wateree lots fill the north end of Kershaw County. Old field and timber tracts run out toward Cassatt, Bethune and Boykin. Land like that grows back fast. Scrub pine and sweetgum take a pasture back in a few seasons. We clear brush and small timber with a dozer and excavator. Then the stumps and roots come out of the ground. What comes off gets piled or burned when the burn rules allow it. The finished tract gets graded so it sheds water. Camden keeps growing, and newer subdivisions like Bramblewood are still filling in. Fresh lots have to be cleared and shaped before anything gets poured on them.
Long drives are the other Camden job. A farm entrance off a county road can run several hundred feet to the barn. Sandhills soil drains well, but loose sand does not hold a truck or a horse trailer. Hard summer rain cuts ruts down the middle of a sand drive. We cut the drive in and crown it so water leaves the surface. The base gets set before the stone goes down. A crusher run base packs tighter than loose stone and carries a load. An existing farm drive can be regraded and topped back up. We do the same work in Blythewood and Sumter, and across the rest of the Midlands towns on our list.
Communities & areas we serve around Camden: Historic District, Kirkwood, Knights Hill, East Camden, Arrowwood, Windsor Heights, Bramblewood, Kirkover Hills, Carriagebrook, Gordon Village.
Camden ZIP codes served: 29020, 29021, 29078, 29045, 29032, 29009, 29175.
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Real reviews from real demolition, excavation and site work jobs on Google.
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 Camden. 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.