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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Waynesville has plenty of older homes on tight or steep lots. Census figures show half the homes in town went up before about 1972. About one in three went up before 1960. When an old house or a worn-out mobile home has to come down, the lot shapes the job.
Sanders Contracting is a demolition contractor based in Murphy, and Waynesville is part of our service area. Here we handle house demolition, mobile home demolition, land clearing and site development for new houses. A large excavator and a small one do the work, and our dump truck hauls the debris off. Call or text (828) 342-1467, and we 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.
The town's development rules describe several of its older neighborhoods. Love Lane is one of the first neighborhoods settled in town. Between Richland Creek and Dellwood Road, it holds small bungalows on small lots. Hazelwood, its own town until it merged with Waynesville in 1995, has small, well-built houses on narrow, tree-lined streets.
A tear-down on a lot like that is close work. The small excavator works in tight, near the house next door and the trees you want to keep. The large one handles the heavy pulls and loads the dump truck. Where the town supplies the power, you set up the shutoff with its electric division before we start.
The Census counts about 13 percent of the town's homes as mobile homes. Our mobile home demolition work takes the skirting and the steps down with the home. Then we pull the old block piers and clean up the pad. If a new manufactured home is going on that pad, the town has its own permit for setting it.
Inside the town limits, most clearing or grading over 1,000 square feet needs an approved erosion control plan first. The town's permit form asks for a site plan drawn to scale, with the slopes and the erosion control shown. Disturb an acre or more, and the form also calls for a plan approval from NC DEQ.
The town's hillside rules apply at 2,900 feet and up. Land that high, with an average slope of 25 percent or more, counts as a steep slope area. On those lots, no land disturbing starts until the town gives full development approval. The share you may disturb drops from 35 percent of the site to 10 percent on the steepest ground.
The town's rules describe Eagles Nest and Hall Top as steep, rural districts. Hall Top also has narrow, winding roads, which matters when an excavator and a dump truck need to get in. For Eagles Nest, the rules call clear cutting for views unacceptable and prefer trimming trees for a vista. Before any land clearing on a steep lot, ask the town's Development Services Department what your lot allows.
The federal soil survey maps much of the town as Evard and Cowee soils on 15 to 50 percent slopes. Cowee soils reach weathered rock 20 to 40 inches down. The survey rates those slopes very limited for houses with basements and for local roads. That rock and that slope shape how a house pad or a foundation dig goes.
On the creek flats, the survey maps Dellwood soils, named for the Dellwood community in Haywood County. They hold plenty of rounded gravel and cobbles. In winter and spring, the water table rises to within 2 to 4 feet of the surface. FEMA also maps a high-risk flood zone along Richland Creek through town.
Grading or filling in that flood zone takes a floodplain development permit from the town. State law calls for exposed slopes to be covered within 21 calendar days after each phase of grading. Hydroseeding is one way to get that cover down. For a new house, our site development work covers the house pad and the driveway cut.
Communities and areas we serve around Waynesville: Hazelwood, Frog Level, Love Lane, Allens Creek, Plott Creek, Eagles Nest, Hall Top, Ninevah, Raccoon Creek, Russ Avenue, Saunook, Lake Junaluska.
Waynesville ZIP codes served: 28786, 28785.
Waynesville 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 Waynesville. 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.