Demolition and Tear-Downs in Hendersonville, NC
Torn down, hauled, left level.
Hendersonville is the Henderson County seat, half an hour south of Asheville, with older houses on in-town lots, apple orchards and packing sheds out east, and retirees' houses on the slopes toward Laurel Park and Flat Rock. McKinley takes down the garages, barns, decks and mobile homes that are in the way, hauls them and grades the ground back.
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Demolition in Hendersonville
In-town garages and the apple-country barn
Henderson County leads the state in apples, and the orchards east of town come with old packing sheds, equipment barns and workers' cabins that have outlived the trees around them. In town, the older streets have detached garages and block sheds built for another era's cars and another era's storms.
Both end up as demolition calls. The orchard building is in the way of a house on land that has been sold off. The in-town garage is leaning, or the owner wants a workshop or an accessory dwelling where it stands and the old one is not worth saving.
Mud Creek and the low side of town
Mud Creek runs through the low ground on the south and east sides of Hendersonville, and the city has frequent flooding along the lower part of it, enough that Spartanburg Highway and Greenville Highway close in big rains. Helene put more water through that bottom than anyone had seen.
Buildings down there took water, and some will not come back. Taking them down is straightforward; what matters is what goes back in the hole. In the floodplain, bringing in fill has its own rules, so McKinley asks the county before raising anything beyond filling the void.
Sloped lots toward Laurel Park and Flat Rock
West and south of downtown the ground climbs, and the houses built there over the last fifty years sit on cut-and-fill lots with a deck off the back and a shed on the low side. When a deck comes off, the posts and footings come out too, and the bank it was hiding is suddenly visible.
That bank is the real job. Once the structure is gone, the ground is filled, compacted and graded so water keeps moving past the house. Where it will not hold on its own, a retaining wall in Hendersonville goes in while the machine is there.
The Henderson County demolition permit
Henderson County Permits and Inspections, on North King Street in Hendersonville, issues the building demolition permit for the county. The application notes that the state requires an asbestos inspection and a notification before demolition, even when nothing is found, and that the site has to be cleared to the footings and graded for drainage afterwards.
Water meters and sewer cleanouts in the right-of-way have to be found and marked before work starts, and the utility pulls the meter if the service is going away. NC811 locates the rest with three working days' notice, as North Carolina law requires.
Machines, access and hauling
McKinley runs the machine himself. For a garage on a tight in-town lot that is usually the mini excavator and the tracked skid steer, carrying debris out to the dump truck at the street. On orchard land there is room for the bigger excavator, and the truck can back right up to the building.
He sorts the load as it goes on and hauls it off; you do not arrange a dumpster or a second contractor. Whatever gets tracked up on the way in and out is graded back at the end of the job.
One price, and what comes after
The estimate is free and on site. You get one figure before anything starts, with the hauling and the finish grading in it, and no surprise later for the footings or the slab. If the job is only concrete, with no building standing on it, see concrete removal in Hendersonville.
A new drive or parking area can follow; see gravel driveway installation in Hendersonville. A yard that was wet before the building came down is covered at yard drainage in Hendersonville. The main page for the area is demolition in Asheville.
Demolition
Sheds, garages, barns, carports, decks, mobile homes and old slabs taken down, hauled off and the ground graded back.
See the serviceTalk to McKinley(828) 540-6856
Tell McKinley whether it is in town, on orchard land or up a slope, and what is going in its place. He comes out to Hendersonville and gives you one figure.
Call nowWhat that covers
- Orchard buildings. Packing sheds, equipment barns and cabins off land that is being sold for houses.
- In-town garages. Block or frame garages on narrow lots, taken down and the slab out.
- Decks on sloped lots. Boards, posts and footings out, the bank behind graded or held.
- Mobile homes. Frame hauled, piers and skirting out, the pad dealt with.
Hendersonville, NC
The Henderson County seat, 30 minutes south of Asheville, with older in-town lots, apple-country acreage and retirees' houses on sloped lots toward Flat Rock and Laurel Park.
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See the pageThe serviceDemolition
Sheds, garages, barns, carports, decks, mobile homes and old slabs taken down, hauled off and the ground graded back.
Main service pageHendersonville and the towns nearby
The same tear-down work runs north up US-25 through Fletcher, where the flood did most of the damage, and Arden to Asheville. The rest of Henderson County is covered from Hendersonville out: Flat Rock, Laurel Park, East Flat Rock, Etowah, Mills River and the orchard country toward Edneyville and Dana. McKinley is based in Asheville, about half an hour up the road. The Hendersonville service area page lists everything else done locally, from gravel drives to retaining walls.
You get McKinley. Not a crew he sent.
You call
You call or text. McKinley comes out and looks at the job with you, on the ground, rather than pricing it off a photograph.
A number first
You get one figure before anything starts, with the hauling and the finish grading in it.
He runs the machine
Then he shows up and runs the machine himself.
Ground left usable
Voids get filled, water is given a way out, and the ground is left so you can build, pour or seed.
Photos of his work.
These are photographs from actual jobs. See more recent work. Or read about the full demolition service.
Questions people ask
Not seeing yours? Call (828) 540-6856 and ask McKinley, or read the guides.
Do I need a permit to tear down a garage in Hendersonville?
Henderson County Permits and Inspections issues the building demolition permit, and the application spells out what has to happen before and after. Ask them before a date is fixed. McKinley can tell you what the office will want for your building.
What is the asbestos inspection the county mentions?
The county's demolition application notes that the state requires an asbestos inspection and a notification before a building is demolished, even if none is found. Henderson County falls under the state program rather than a local one. Ask Permits and Inspections how it applies to your building.
Will you take down an old packing shed on orchard land?
Yes. Orchard buildings on land being sold off for houses are common calls. There is usually room for the bigger excavator and the truck, so they come down and go quickly, and the ground is graded for whatever is going on it.
My lot is near Mud Creek. Can you raise it once the shed is gone?
The hole the shed leaves is filled and crowned so it does not hold water. Raising the whole lot with fill is a floodplain question for the county, and McKinley asks before bringing in more than the job needs.
Do you haul the debris or do I need a dumpster?
McKinley hauls it in his dump truck as part of the job, loading as the building comes down rather than leaving a pile in the yard. You do not arrange a dumpster or a second contractor. The one figure you get before work starts has the hauling in it.
Other work he takes on
Most jobs end up being two or three of these at once, and they get quoted together.
Demolition in other towns
Gravel Driveways
A new drive cut into the hill, based in lifts and crowned to shed water.
Learn moreDriveway Repair & Grading
Washouts, ruts and potholes fixed at the cause, not just regraded.
Learn moreDrainage & Erosion Control
French drains, catch basins, culverts and riprap so the property sheds water.
Learn moreRetaining Walls
Block, boulder and riprap walls that hold a cut bank up.
Learn moreLand Clearing
Lots, building sites and overgrown acreage cleared, stumps and root mat out.
Learn moreHouse Pads & Site Prep
Pads cut, filled and compacted on ground that started at anything but level.
Learn moreFree estimate in Hendersonville.
Where it is, how long the drive is, how steep it gets and what it is doing now. We come out, walk it, and give you a real number.
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- One crew from clearing through to the last load of stone
- Drainage designed in, not sold to you afterwards
Need demolition in Hendersonville?
Call or text McKinley. He walks the ground before he gives you a price.