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.
An excavating contractor digs the trenches and holes that a job needs before anything can get built or repaired. Dirt Cheap runs excavation out of our shop on Edmund Highway in West Columbia, and we dig across the Midlands. Homeowners, builders, property managers, and general contractors call us when the dirt has to move before the real work starts. One job may be a short water line trench, and the next a full site dig under a commercial slab. When the problem is a failed storm drain, a collapsed driveway culvert or a yard that holds water, that is drainage and storm drain repair, and the same machines handle it.
Dirt Cheap is a family business with our own crew on the machines every day. We run the job from our West Columbia shop, and we own full size excavators, dozers, and trailers. We dig anywhere inside roughly 50 miles of West Columbia, and we bring the ground back to grade after. Estimates cost nothing, so call (803) 796-4727 and tell us what needs to come out of the ground.
Tell us about the structure, lot or job and we will get right back to you.
Call us and tell us what you need dug, where the property sits, and when you need it done. We look at the site, check whether a full size machine can get in, and read the soil. Utility locates go in before every dig, so the water, power, gas, and cable lines get marked first. On a wooded lot we cut the trees and brush off first, then set the machine where the plan starts.
Storm drain repair shows how a deep dig goes, because the pipe usually sits well below grade. The hole has to be wide enough to work in safely, and the ground has to go back tight. Jared Smith said in his Google review: Storm drain repair for apartment complex fixed twice, both required a large excavation. Did both jobs quickly and for a great price. We backfill in lifts, compact the trench, and the debris leaves on our own trucks as part of the job.
Most of the Midlands sits on red clay, and red clay holds water instead of letting it drain away. That is why so many yards around here keep a soft, wet corner for days after the rain stops. A trench cut in soaked clay can slump, so we watch the weather and time the dig around it. Red clay digs the same in Columbia as out toward Orangeburg, and sandy ground shows up near the river.
If you are comparing excavation companies near you, ask what size machines they own and how deep they dig. A full size excavator reaches deeper and lifts more weight, which changes how long the whole job takes. That matters on a ditch that has silted in, or on a pond dug to hold storm water runoff. The same excavator digs the tank hole and the field lines when we put in a new septic system.
An excavation contractor prices a dig by what comes out of the ground and how hard it is to reach. Depth drives it first, since a four foot trench and a ten foot trench are two very different jobs. Soil matters next, because wet clay and old buried concrete will both slow a big bucket down. Access matters too, since a tight backyard behind one narrow gate costs more to dig than an open field.
Length and where the spoil ends up set the rest of the number, since spreading it on site costs less. Slab cut outs and footing trenches price out differently than one long straight run of open drain pipe. Site excavation after a building teardown is its own kind of job, with old material still in the ground. Estimates are free, and you get a real number once we have seen the site and the access.
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 excavation across the Midlands. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
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.
We repair rutted, washed out and potholed driveways across the Midlands, from short residential drives to quarter mile farm lanes. Our crew cuts the ruts out, reshapes the crown and packs the surface so water leaves the drive instead of cutting into it. We also grade new lanes and replace broken concrete drives.
We tear down single wides, double wides and older trailers across the Midlands, then fill and level the lot.
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, fills the low spots, grades it flat and can finish with a repaired driveway, concrete or a septic system. No handoffs between companies, no waiting on a second crew.
Cleanup 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.
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. Awesome folks to deal with through and through.
Published guides put trenching at $5 to $12 per linear foot, about $500 to $1,200 for a 100 foot trench. See what moves the cost of your trench in SC.
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Published cost guides put land clearing at $500 to $2,000 per acre for light woods and $3,000 to $5,600 for heavy woods. See what moves your cost in SC.
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Published guides put a new septic system in South Carolina at $5,000 to $15,000, and lots around Columbia at $5,000 to $8,000. Free on site estimates.
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.