MOBILE HOME DEMOLITION IN AUSTIN & CENTRAL TEXAS
Clear Ground demolishes single- and double-wide mobile homes in Austin and Central Texas for $5,000–$12,000 per home (single-wide to double-wide). We dismantle on site, sort and haul the debris, pull piers and tie-downs, flag the utility stubs and grade the pad. Most homes take one to three days on site once utilities are off and the title paperwork is current.
Part of our Austin demolition service. Piers and tie-downs pulled, utility stubs flagged, and the pad graded for the next home or the next build.
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A MANUFACTURED HOME ISN'T A STICK-BUILT HOUSE.
IT COMES APART DIFFERENTLY.
Mobile home demolition is the dismantling and removal of a manufactured home, single-wide or double-wide, down to the steel chassis. Then the chassis, the piers, the tie-downs and the skirting go, the utility stubs are flagged and the pad is graded. A manufactured home is light: aluminum, wood, drywall and insulation on a steel frame. Knocking it down is the easy part. The job is the sorting, the hauling and everything hiding under the floor. We dismantle on site instead of dragging a rotten box down a county road, ticket every load, recycle the aluminum and steel, and bury nothing.
Mobile Home Demolition
One section, one steel chassis, roughly 12–18 ft wide and 40–80 ft long. The most common trailer house on rural lots and older parks. Roof and walls pulled apart from one side, chassis stripped and lifted whole, piers and anchors out behind it. Usually one to two roll-offs plus the steel.
Manufactured Home Demolition
Two or three sections married on site, two or three chassis, twice the roof and drywall, and very often a site-built porch, carport, deck or room addition that has to come down with it. More piers, more anchors, more loads. We count all of it on the site walk before the price is set.
Park Pull-Outs
The inherited home nobody has lived in for years. The old trailer house on the back forty. A park owner retiring three units at once. Priced per home, mobilized once. Gate width, distance from the county road and how far the roll-off truck can get to the home all show up in the price, before we sign.
THE BOX IS THE EASY PART.WHAT'S UNDER IT IS THE JOB.
Pull the skirting off any manufactured home that has sat for twenty years and you find what cheap quotes skip: block piers, steel straps and earth anchors, hanging drain lines, a sewer connection, sometimes a propane tank, sometimes a site-built porch slab. Every one of those either comes out with us or gets counted and priced before we mobilize. A walk-under inspection tells us what is there. Nothing gets cut off at grade and left for the next builder's footing to find.
THE TITLE PAPERWORK IS YOURS. THE DEMOLITION IS OURS.
A manufactured home in Texas has its own ownership record, the Statement of Ownership and Location, kept by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) separately from the land. It should be current, or transferred to you, before the home is demolished. Ask the TDHCA Manufactured Housing Division what to file for your situation, including what to file after the home is gone. We do not file it for you, and this is not legal advice. We give you dated load tickets and recycling records showing the home was removed.
Utilities are disconnected at the meter by the utility or a licensed trade before demo day. A licensed plumber or electrician caps what is left at the stub; we flag and photograph it.
Older homes can contain asbestos in flooring, roofing and siding. Federal asbestos rules (EPA NESHAP) generally treat a residential building with four or fewer dwelling units differently from commercial buildings, but park and multi-unit projects can be different. Verify what applies to your home with Texas DSHS before you schedule. If a survey finds asbestos, abatement happens before demolition, and we can point you to an abatement contractor.
We check whether your address needs a demolition permit and say so in the quote. Where one applies, we pull it or coordinate with whoever holds it.
Last reviewed: September 2026.
ONE MOBILIZATION FROM
OLD TRAILER TO READY PAD.
Mobile home demolition is rarely the whole project. Something is going on that pad next: a new manufactured home, a stick-built house, a barn, or clean pasture. We scope the removal so the next step does not have to undo it. The pad is graded to drain, the old slabs are gone or kept on purpose, and the brush around the old home site can come out on the same trip. One crew, one handoff.
Owner's side: power, gas or propane, and water off at the meter; tank pulled by the supplier; title record current; any asbestos survey and abatement complete. We tell you what applies.
→This page. Dismantle, sort, haul, recycle. Piers, anchors and skirting out. Utilities capped and flagged. Pad graded to drain.
→Grade and compact the pad for the next manufactured home, or cut a building pad for a stick-built house: site prep & pad prep. Old porch and carport concrete goes under concrete & slab removal.
→Cedar and brush around the old home site cleared under land clearing; any site-built footings under foundation removal. You get the load tickets and recycling records.
BEFORE THE FIRST PANEL COMES OFF.
We walk the lot and get under the home: pier count, anchor type, where the sewer connection is, whether there is a slab under that porch, what is still inside the house. We measure access for the roll-off truck instead of eyeballing it. Everything we will dismantle, pull, haul and grade is identified and priced before the excavator is loaded on the trailer. That is why the number holds.
We do not haul manufactured homes away intact. A home old enough to demolish is rarely road-worthy, and moving one whole just relocates the problem. An excavator with a hydraulic thumb opens the roof, folds the walls in and pulls the floor off the frame one section at a time. Aluminum siding and windows go to one pile. Wood, drywall, insulation and shingles go to the roll-off. The steel chassis is stripped bare and lifted whole onto a trailer for scrap. Dust is kept down.
With the frame gone, the footprint is open. Block piers are pulled and stacked. Earth anchors are backed out of the ground, straps and all. Skirting, hanging drain lines and the sewer connection are removed. A licensed plumber or electrician caps the water, sewer and electric stubs; we flag and photograph them so the next home can tie back in. If a site-built porch slab or carport footing is in scope, the hydraulic hammer breaks it and it leaves with the concrete. Nothing is cut off at grade and buried.
Pier holes and anchor voids are backfilled and compacted. The footprint is rough-graded to drain. That grading is included in the price. Gravel, imported fill and a pad built to a dealer's or builder's spec are not included; those are site prep, scoped separately. If you want a measured topo of the finished pad, a drone scan is available as a priced add-on ($500–$1,500 per scan).
Every load leaves on a ticket. The aluminum, steel, concrete and C&D recycling are documented. For an estate, that paperwork is what the executor keeps. For a park owner, it goes in the file. For anyone who has to show the state the home was removed, it is dated evidence in hand.
MOBILE HOME DEMOLITION COST.
PRICED PER HOME.
Most mobile home demolition and removal in Central Texas lands at $5,000–$12,000 per home (single-wide to double-wide). A single-wide with clean access sits toward the low end. A double-wide with a site-built porch, a long dirt drive and a house still full of furniture sits toward the high end. The site walk and under-home inspection turn that range into one number, set before the excavator moves.
| Service | Unit | Range | Typical timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile home, single-wide to double-wide (dismantle, haul, recycle, piers and anchors out, utility stubs flagged, pad graded) | home | $5,000–$12,000 | 1–3 days on site |
| Single-wide | home | Lower part of the range | 1–2 days |
| Double-wide or triple-wide, site-built additions | home | Upper part of the range, more with additions | 2–3 days |
| Porch, carport and patio slab concrete | sq ft | $4–$8 | Adds about a day for a large slab |
| Sheds and outbuildings on the same lot | structure | $1,000–$5,000 | Same mobilization |
| Extra haul-off (contents, junk piles) | job | $1,000–$3,500 | Adds a day for a lot of contents |
| Drone topo scan (optional add-on) | scan | $500–$1,500 | Optional. Not part of the base price. |
Prices reviewed: September 2026. Ranges for Austin and Central Texas; your site walk sets the final number.
Ranges reflect typical Central Texas residential work. Double-wides, site-built additions, long haul distances and homes still full of contents push toward the high end. Your price is set after the site walk and holds unless the scope changes. Title paperwork, utility disconnects, asbestos survey and abatement, septic work, gravel, imported fill and pad building to a set-up spec are not included.
The thumb is what makes manufactured home demolition clean. It peels roof and wall sections off instead of smashing them, lifts the stripped chassis whole onto a trailer, and pulls block piers and earth anchors out of the ground. A compact carrier fits down a ranch drive and through a park lot.
Comes out only when there is concrete to break: a site-built porch slab, a carport pad, poured pier footings or an old patio. The site walk tells us whether the hammer is needed at all.
- CAT 305.5E2 mini excavator with hydraulic hammer
- Kobelco SK75 excavator with 1,500 lb hydraulic hammer
- Ram 3500 dually and Diamond C equipment trailer
Dozers, larger excavators and compaction equipment are rented locally when a job needs them.
ALUMINUM ONE WAY. STEEL ANOTHER.
NOTHING BURIED ON SITE.
A manufactured home is one of the most recyclable structures we take down, if somebody bothers to sort it. Aluminum siding, window frames and trim are nonferrous scrap. The chassis, axles, straps and anchors are steel. What is left (wood, drywall, insulation, shingles and carpet) is ordinary C&D. We sort as the home comes down, so the aluminum never gets buried in a mixed roll-off and the steel leaves as a clean load. Every ticket comes back to you.
The Old Trailer House
Has to Go Before Anything Else Can Happen.
You inherited the place, or you bought the acreage with the home already on it, and it has sat since before you had keys. Selling, building or setting a new home all start with getting it off the pad properly, not dragged into the tree line. We get down a dirt road, take the home apart on site, pull what is under it, and leave a graded pad and a set of records the executor, the buyer or the dealer's set-up crew can read.
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Keep the Pad and the Neighbors.
Abandoned and end-of-life units cost a park in rent, liability and appearance. Pulling them out means working between occupied homes with tight lanes and shared utilities. We scope multiple units on one mobilization, keep the site tidy while neighbors are home, flag and photograph every utility stub, and document each unit separately for the park's file.
See All Demolition ServicesTypical mobile home demolition and removal runs $5,000–$12,000 per home (single-wide to double-wide). A single-wide sits toward the low end and a double-wide toward the high end, and site-built porches, carports and a house full of contents push it up.
We dismantle on site and recycle. Hauling a home intact needs a road-worthy frame, axles and tires plus a transport permit, and a home ready for demolition rarely qualifies. Taking it apart where it sits lets us sort the aluminum, steel and C&D as it comes down.
Yes, check it first. The home's Statement of Ownership and Location, kept by TDHCA, should be current or transferred to you before demolition. Ask the TDHCA Manufactured Housing Division (www.tdhca.texas.gov/manufactured-housing) what to file. We do not file it for you.
Disconnects happen before we mobilize, on your side: power off by the utility or co-op, propane tank emptied and picked up by the supplier, water shut at the meter or well. On demo day we remove the lines under the home; a licensed plumber or electrician caps the water, sewer and electric stubs, and we flag and photograph them. Septic tanks and lids are located and protected; abandoning or replacing a septic system is separate scope.
The pad is graded to drain and that is included: pier holes and anchor voids backfilled and compacted. Not included are gravel, imported fill and a pad built to the dealer's or builder's spec. That is site prep, and we can scope it on the same mobilization.
We check whether your address needs a demolition permit and say so in the quote. Where one applies, we pull it or coordinate with whoever holds it. Requirements differ inside a city, in the ETJ and in unincorporated county land.
Older homes can contain asbestos, and federal rules (EPA NESHAP) treat residential buildings of four or fewer units differently from commercial ones, so verify with Texas DSHS at www.dshs.texas.gov/asbestos. If a survey finds asbestos, abatement comes first. Once we are on site, a single-wide takes one to two days and a double-wide two to three.
Every demolition service we run, in one place.
View Hub →Stick-built residential teardowns for rebuilds, inheritors and infill developers. $9,000–$25,000 per house.
View Service →Outbuildings on the same lot as the mobile home, often scoped on the same mobilization. $1,000–$5,000 per structure.
View Service →Single-story retail, shop, office and warehouse structures. $6–$12 per sq ft.
View Service →Porch slabs, carport pads and old patios next to the home. $4–$8 per sq ft.
View Service →Site-built additions and old pier-and-beam footings left on the property.
View Service →Pad built to the new home's spec, or a building pad for a stick-built house.
View Service →Cedar, brush and overgrowth around the old home site cleared while the equipment is on the property.
View Service →How a demolition job runs in Central Texas, from permits and disconnects to the last load.
Read Guide →What drives the price on every structure type we remove.
Read Guide →Every service range in one place.
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A site walk and under-home inspection confirm the size, the additions, the piers and the access before we quote. You get one price per home and a pad graded to drain.
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