Demolition
House Demolition in the Denver Metro
We take houses down to a clean, graded lot. Single family homes, brick ranches, fire damaged structures, and scrape offs for new construction. We coordinate the paperwork, bring in the excavator, haul every load, and hand you a site that is ready for the next step.
What a House Teardown Includes
- Site walk and a written, itemized proposal
- Asbestos building inspection by a state certified inspector, required in Colorado before any demolition
- CDPHE demolition notice and the local demolition permit
- Utility disconnects coordinated: gas and electric with Xcel, water and sewer cap with the district
- Excavator demolition of the structure, foundation, and slab
- Basement backfill and compaction when a basement comes out
- Debris loaded and hauled to the landfill, with concrete and metal recycled where we can
- Lot rough graded and left clean
Add ons priced as separate line items: driveway, sidewalk, and patio removal, tree and fence removal, detached garage and shed teardown, pool fill in.
Who Hires Us for Teardowns
- Builders and developers scraping a lot for new construction. We hit your schedule and leave a pad your excavator can work from.
- Investors and flippers where the house is worth less than the dirt.
- Homeowners rebuilding on a lot they already own.
- Owners of fire, flood, or storm damaged homes that are past saving.
- Estates, realtors, and landlords clearing a condemned or vacant structure before a sale.
The Process, Start to Finish
Site walk
Usually within a few days of your call. We look at the structure, foundation, access, utilities, trees, and what's next to the property line.
Itemized proposal
Survey, permits, disconnects, demolition, hauling, disposal, and grading, each on its own line.
Asbestos survey
A certified inspector samples the house. If anything comes back positive, a licensed abatement contractor removes it before demo. We schedule both.
Paperwork
CDPHE demolition notification, the city or county permit, and utility disconnect letters. Expect 2 to 4 weeks from signed proposal to the first swing of the excavator. Most of that is waiting on utilities and the state notice, not on us.
Demo day
A typical single family teardown is 1 to 3 days of machine work.
Haul off and grading
Every load out, the hole backfilled, the lot graded, and photos sent to you when we're done.
All in: survey, notice, permit, disconnects, demo, hauling, disposal, grading. Quoted in writing after a site walk.
Read the cost guide →What moves the number
Three things, in order
Concrete is heavy to break and haul, and the hole gets backfilled. Adds $5,000 to $10,000 over a slab.
Floor tile in one room is a small abatement. Textured drywall through a 1960s house is not.
A house three feet off the fence means hand work near the shared wall. A corner lot with an alley is the easy case.
Permits and Asbestos, Handled
Colorado does not let anyone tear down a house without an asbestos inspection first, and CDPHE needs a demolition notice on file before the city will issue a permit. On top of that, each city has its own permit, its own fees, and its own utility letter requirements. Denver, Arvada, Lakewood, Jefferson County, and Douglas County all run it a little differently.
We prepare and coordinate the whole package. In jurisdictions that require a licensed contractor of record, we partner with one and it's built into your proposal. You sign, we chase the paperwork.
More detail: Demolition permits in the Denver metro
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