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.
Our Services
Land clearing takes a lot from thick woods or heavy brush down to open, workable ground. We clear property around West Columbia and the rest of the Midlands for builders, homeowners, farmers, and landowners. Trees come down, brush and undergrowth come out by the roots, and stumps get dug and the holes filled. What is left is a lot you can build on, fence, farm, or see across. Some jobs are a half acre house site. Others run several acres of pine and hardwood that nobody has touched in twenty years.
Dirt Cheap is a family run company with a shop on Edmund Highway in West Columbia. Our crew runs the equipment and is on the job site every day. We clear with full size excavators and dozers that push over a mature pine and pull the stump with it. We cover about 50 miles out from Columbia, which puts most of the Midlands in reach. Once a lot is open, we can level the dirt and set the slope for whatever gets built on it. Estimates are free, so call (803) 796-4727 and tell us what you are looking at.
Tell us about the structure, lot or job and we will get right back to you.
It starts with a phone call and a look at the lot. We come out, see what is standing, and check how the ground sits. We look at tree size, how thick the undergrowth is, and where the property pins are. A tri axle truck and a trailer need room to turn around, so access gets checked early. Utility lines get located and marked before any stump comes out of the ground. If an old house or mobile home is still sitting there, that comes down first. Then you get a price for the whole job before any equipment rolls in.
On the work day the dozer goes first and pushes the standing timber into piles. The excavator follows and digs the stumps and root balls out of the ground. Along a fence line or close to a house the work slows down and gets done in smaller bites. Big root balls get shaken out first, so the good dirt stays on your lot. The piles get worked down and taken off the lot, and the last pass rakes the ground back flat. Jodi Ketchem put it this way in her Google review. "I have had them complete two jobs and they were here right away, completed and cleaned up immediately."
Price comes down to what is on the ground and how hard it is to get out. Acreage matters, but a half acre of mature hardwood costs more than two acres of young pine. Big stumps take longer than small ones, and a lot that was logged before goes quicker than untouched woods. Wet ground, steep slope, soft sand, and tight access all slow the machines down. So does old fence wire, trash left behind by the last owner, or buried concrete nobody knew about.
What you want at the end changes the number too. Rough clearing that knocks out the brush and small trees costs less than bare dirt ready for a house. We price each lot after seeing it, and the estimate costs nothing. Call (803) 796-4727 or send us the address and the acreage and we will come take a look. Some lots need a way in for trucks. While the equipment is here, we can put in a gravel drive back to the site.
The dirt around here changes fast, since Lexington County sits right on the fall line. One lot is loose sand and the next is heavy red clay that holds water. After a wet week a freshly cleared lot turns to mud, and heavy machines cut deep ruts in it. Low spots near creeks and ditches stay soft long after the rest of the lot dries. We watch the weather and time the work so the lot is not left torn up. Older Midlands property has its own habits, and pasture edges grow up in briars. Lots that sat empty for years fill in with sweetgum and scrub pine.
Storms are the other reason people call. Summer thunderstorms and the tail end of hurricanes drop pines across yards and pastures here every year. We take out the downed trees and the root balls and get the property open again. Rules change by county and city, so ask your county office about land disturbance before a large site gets cleared. We clear lots in Blythewood, Camden, and the rest of the 50 mile radius. Bare ground is also the easy time to run a water line or fix a drainage problem.
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 land clearing 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.
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.
Dirt Cheap pours concrete driveways, patios, walkways, and slabs around West Columbia. Our excavators strip and pack the ground before any concrete goes down. Estimates are free.
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.
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.