Demolition & Removal in Lakeland, FL

What gets torn out behind Lakeland's older homes

The century homes around Lake Morton and down the brick streets of Dixieland have hundred-year-old oaks in the yard, and those roots have spent decades lifting the front walk, cracking the driveway and tilting the block wall along the side lot. That's most of the demo work in the historic core: concrete walks and drives broken up, a low block wall knocked down, a back deck that somebody added in the eighties and the termites have been eating since. The crew brings the Kubota track loader with the breaker when it's concrete and hand tools when it's wood, and everything is loaded as it comes apart.

South Lakeland is a different tear-out. The 1980s and 1990s suburbs there are on their second or third pool-deck life, and the call is a spalling concrete pool deck, a screen enclosure with rusted-out fasteners, or a wood deck around an above-ground pool that's coming out with the pool. North of I-4, in the production subdivisions, it's mostly fence: a run of privacy panels leaning after a storm, posts and all.

How Lakeland demolition is priced

Rob quotes one flat number from photos or a walk-through, before any tool comes out. Wood, metal, vinyl and screen ride the dump trailer: $350 for a half load, $525 for three-quarters, $700 for a full one. Concrete and dirt never go in the trailers. The loader breaks the slab or walk on site, a partner dump truck hauls the pieces to a recycler, and that part is quoted for the job. You pay when the footprint is raked and the trailer is gone.

Permits are a City of Lakeland building department question, and Rob will tell you if your job looks like one that usually needs a call. When a job needs a permit, he works with a general contractor and says so before you book.

Booking demolition in Lakeland from Davenport

Lakeland is 44 minutes down I-4 from the yard, so demo here goes on Rob's west-side day with Auburndale and Bartow, usually the next day after you call. A job that needs the track loader gets a firm date so the machine and the trailer arrive together. Brick streets and narrow historic drives are fine; the trailer parks where a pickup can park. Paint, solvents and propane found under a deck stay off the load and go to the county facility.