MOBILE HOME DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL. THE PAD STAYS READY.

Typical mobile home demolition and removal runs $5,000–$12,000 per home. That covers dismantling on site, hauling, recycling, pulling the piers and tie-downs, capping the utilities, and grading the pad. The three things that move the number most: the size of the home (single-wide versus double-wide), what's attached to it (site-built porches, carports, decks, additions), and how hard it is to get a roll-off truck to it. What's still inside the home matters too — a house full of furniture is extra loads. The pre-demo scan turns the range into a fixed price. You can rough out a starting number on the demolition calculator or read the demolition cost guide.

A single-wide typically lands toward the low end of the range — roughly $5,000–$8,000 — and a double-wide toward the high end, roughly $8,000–$12,000. A double-wide isn't just twice as long; it's two chassis to strip and load, twice the roof and drywall, more piers and anchors under the floor, and it almost always came with a site-built porch or addition that has to come down with it. Triple-wides and homes with large additions can run past the top of the range, and we'll tell you that before we quote, not after.

We dismantle on site and recycle. Hauling a manufactured home intact needs a home that's still road-worthy — sound frame, axles, tires, hitch — and a transport permit, and a home that's reached the point of demolition almost never qualifies. Moving it whole also just relocates the problem to someone else's lot. Taking it apart where it sits lets us sort the aluminum, the steel, and the C&D as it comes down, which is what gets it recycled instead of landfilled. If your home is genuinely in good shape and you're looking to relocate or sell it rather than demolish it, that's a different service and we'll say so.

Usually: concrete block piers or poured pads under the chassis, steel tie-down straps running to screw-in earth anchors, vinyl or metal skirting, hanging drain lines, the water supply, the sewer connection, and electric to a pedestal or panel. Sometimes: a propane tank, a site-built porch slab, a carport pad, a deck on its own footings. The piers, anchors, skirting, and plumbing come out as part of every job; the utilities are capped and flagged at the stub. Propane tanks go back to the supplier before demo day. Slabs and footings are broken and hauled when they're scoped. Septic tanks are located and protected but are separate scope. The pre-demo scan and a walk-under inspection are how we know what's there before we price it.

The ownership record for a manufactured home in Texas is kept by the state (TDHCA), separately from the land, and updating or retiring that record when the home is destroyed is the owner's responsibility. We don't file it, and we're not going to give you legal or title advice we're not qualified to give. What we can do is make sure you have what an owner usually needs in hand: dated before-and-after scans, load tickets, and recycling documentation that show the home was demolished and removed on a specific date. If you're an executor or you bought the land with a home already on it, sort out who's on the record before demo day — it's easier with the home still standing.

Disconnects happen before we mobilize, on your side of the line: power off and the meter pulled by the utility or co-op, propane tank emptied and picked up by the supplier, water shut at the meter or well. We'll tell you exactly what needs to happen and in what order. On demo day we remove the lines under the home, cap the water, sewer, and electric at the stub, and flag them so the next home can tie back in or the builder knows where they are. Septic tanks and lids are located on the scan and protected during the work; abandoning or replacing a septic system is separate scope we can point you to.

Yes, and that's usually the plan. Pad graded is part of every mobile home demolition: pier holes and anchor voids backfilled and compacted, the footprint rough-graded to drain, utilities capped and flagged where the new home will tie in. If the new home's set-up crew or the dealer has a spec — pad elevation, gravel, a poured runner, a bigger footprint — that's site prep and pad prep, and we scope it on the same mobilization so you're not paying two crews to touch the same dirt. The post-demo RTK scan gives you and the set-up crew the finished elevation to ±0.5 cm before they schedule.

Permit requirements vary by jurisdiction — inside a city, in the ETJ, or in unincorporated county land, and by whether the home is on its own parcel or in a park. We tell you what applies to your lot and handle the demolition permit where we can. On the schedule: a single-wide is typically one to two days on site, a double-wide two to three. Add a day for a large porch or a lot of contents to haul. We quote within 48 hours of the scan and mobilize within 48 hours of acceptance. Older homes may need an asbestos survey and, if it finds anything, abatement before we mobilize; we don't do abatement, and we can point you to a contractor who does.