House Demolition
We tear down old houses and cabins, including homes hurt by fire or storms. The debris goes out on our dump truck, and the lot is left clean for what comes next.
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Robbinsville is the Graham County seat, a town of about 600 people in one of the most forested counties in the state. Inside the limits, built lots run about a quarter acre in the middle of the range, the smallest of any town we serve. About one home in four is a mobile home. When an old one has to go, there is little room to work around it.
Sanders Contracting is a demolition contractor based in Murphy, about 36 road miles away by US 19/74 and US 129. Robbinsville is part of our service area. We tear down houses and mobile homes, clear lots and cut pads with two excavators and a dump truck. Call or text (828) 342-1467 and we will look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us what you need done and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Most of the town is mapped as graded or filled ground and urban land, about 60 percent of it. The soil survey calls that Udorthents, the ground left after a century of building and regrading. Below it the hillsides are Junaluska and Brasstown soils over phyllite and slate, with weathered rock 20 to 40 inches down on the steeper lots. A teardown on a flat downtown lot and a pad cut on a hillside are two different jobs here.
On a quarter acre lot the excavator works close to the lines, and the debris has to leave as it comes down. We stage the dump truck and haul by the load instead of piling up the yard. The courthouse block on North Main Street and the lots along the Rodney Orr Bypass are typical of that tight work.
Graham County Building Inspections, on Knight Street in Robbinsville, enforces the state building code in the county. The same office enforces the county and town watershed rules, the floodplain rules and 911 addressing. Its page does not spell out a separate demolition permit, so the first call on any teardown goes there. We can tell you what to ask for, and the office has the final word on your lot.
Ground disturbance follows the state rule here. Graham County runs no local erosion program, so a job that disturbs more than one acre needs a plan approved by the state's Asheville regional office. Under that line the ground cover still has to go back on and the sediment has to stay on the lot. Land clearing on a wooded parcel is where that question usually comes up.
Tulula Creek, Sweetwater Creek, Long Creek, Mountain Creek and Atoah Creek all run through or around town, and all of them are on the flood maps. About 13 percent of the town's land is in the flood hazard area, with about 3 percent in the floodway. Lake Santeetlah is a flooding source too, on the lots that face it. A lot in those zones needs the county's floodplain rules checked before any fill goes down.
The rest of the county is woods, water and steep road. US 129 north of town is the stretch they call the Tail of the Dragon, 318 curves in 11 miles. The Cheoah River, Fontana Dam and the Cherohala Skyway bring cabin lots and second homes. Clearing a cabin lot and cutting a pad into the slope is site development work we run with the same two excavators.
About 26 percent of the homes in town are mobile homes, the highest share of any town on this site. Many went in during the 1980s, the decade with the most building in Robbinsville. When one is past saving, we take it apart with the excavator, haul it off and clear the piers, skirting and pad. Check the title with the DMV and the county tax office first, because a titled home has its own paperwork.
Old barns, sheds and garages on the county's farms and hollows are the other call. Building demolition covers those, and the debris leaves in the dump truck. Storm damaged structures and downed timber are part of the work in a county this wooded. We serve Robbinsville, Lake Santeetlah, Stecoah and the rest of Graham County from Murphy.
Communities and areas we serve around Robbinsville: Downtown and the Graham County Courthouse, North Main Street, the Junaluska Memorial, Robbinsville High School, the Rodney Orr Bypass, Tulula Creek, Sweetwater Creek, Lake Santeetlah, the Cheoah River, Tapoco Road and US 129, the Cherohala Skyway, Fontana Dam.
Robbinsville ZIP codes served: 28771.
Robbinsville is part of our service area. We come out from Murphy, look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(828) 342-1467 We tear down old houses and cabins, including homes hurt by fire or storms. The debris goes out on our dump truck, and the lot is left clean for what comes next.
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We tear down single wide and double wide mobile homes and haul them off in our dump truck. The lot is left cleaned up and ready for a new home or a new pad.
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We tear down barns, garages, sheds and old store buildings with the excavator. The dump truck hauls the debris off and the spot is left clean.
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We break out old slabs, foundations, driveways and patios with the excavator. The broken concrete goes out in our dump truck.
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We clear brush and small trees off lots and acreage, then pull the stumps. The dump truck hauls the debris away, and the ground is ready to use.
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We cut house pads and driveways into sloped lots and dig for the foundation. Your build starts on level ground.
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We dig for footings and basements and cut level building pads into sloped lots. Extra dirt and rock leave in our dump truck.
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We take down dead and leaning trees with the excavator and haul the wood off in the dump truck. We also trim and prune limbs and handle storm cleanup.
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Retaining walls that hold a driveway or a house pad on a sloped mountain lot. You choose the material, and every wall gets drainage behind it.
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We spray seed and mulch over new lawns, graded sites, cleared ground and cut banks. Once the grass takes, its roots hold the soil in place.
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We haul off demolition, construction and storm debris with the excavator and the dump truck. Brush piles and stumps go too, and the site is left clean.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Robbinsville. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us what has to come down or get cleared, and where the job is. Call or text (828) 342-1467 or (828) 361-8764, or send the form, and we set a time to look at it.
Tell us what you need done and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.