House Demolition
We take down houses, garages, and small structures across Los Angeles. Our own trucks haul the debris, so the lot is clear and ready for your builder.
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Pacific Palisades is a hard place to work if you do not know it. The Alphabet Streets are narrow and lined with parked cars. Castellammare clings to the bluffs above Pacific Coast Highway. The Highlands and Marquez Knolls climb the hillside, so most lots sit on a slope. We have hauled out of every part of Pacific Palisades. Since the January 2025 fire, Pacific Palisades has been in a long rebuild. We did cleanup work here after the fire. Our crews are still in the fire area today, working on fire-damaged homes and lots. Most lots are cleared now, and homes are going back up one block at a time. Rustic Canyon and the Riviera bring their own access problems, with tight driveways and mature trees. We handle the demolition and hauling part of the work. It is dusty, heavy work that has to run quietly and on schedule.
We are Southwest Hauling, Demolition & Disposal, founded in 1994. California License #792182, insured, with multiple crews, our trucks and equipment, and a truck yard in the South Bay. Most of our Palisades work is lot cleanup and concrete removal ahead of a rebuild. That means old slabs, footings, driveways and retaining walls broken out and hauled away. We also do grading and trenching to get the pad ready for your builder. For 20 years we held City of Los Angeles contracts on foreclosed and vacant properties. Permit paperwork and access rules are normal for us. We also do weed abatement to the LAFD fire code, and the cuttings leave on our trucks.
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Our crews are working in the Pacific Palisades fire area now, on fire-damaged homes and lots. When a fire-damaged house has to come down, that job is a full teardown, and the debris leaves in our own trucks. When the structure is staying, we gut the damaged rooms down to bare studs. Burned garages, sheds and fences come off the lot in the same job.
Lots need work too. We clear what is left on the ground, break out old slabs and footings, and rough grade the pad for your builder. We also do weed abatement to the LAFD fire code. The LAFD rules cover weeds and grass within 200 feet of a structure, and our guide to the LAFD brush clearance requirements lays them out.
The Army Corps finished its debris removal program in the Palisades in 2025. That took the burned structures and the top layer of soil off most lots. What is often left behind is the older concrete: foundations, slabs, driveways, pool shells and retaining walls. We break that out, load it and haul it off so the lot is ready for the builder.
Pulling an old foundation changes what the city asks for. LADBS says removing a conventional foundation during demolition disturbs the soil next to it. That soil has to come out and be recompacted, which takes a grading permit and a compaction report. We plan the removal with your soils engineer and leave the pad at the grade they called for. Call 310-546-4855 and we will come look at the lot.
Most of Pacific Palisades sits in a hillside grading area, so LADBS looks closely at the dirt work. A grading permit is required to excavate or fill, and to import or export earth. LADBS also maps Palisades Geohazard Risk Assessment Zones, or PGRAZ. Orange zones are lots on or beside steep slopes and old landslide areas; yellow zones sit below them. Both need a combined geology and soils report, so check your address with LADBS early.
Access is the other half of the work here. Castellammare sits above Pacific Coast Highway on switchback roads with no shoulder. The Alphabet Streets are narrow and parked full through the day, and Highlands lots often drop away behind the house. We size the truck to the street. When a ten wheeler will not fit, we send a smaller unit and shuttle loads. Much of our work in the Palisades is under an NDA. We do not discuss whose property we are on.
Communities & areas we serve around Pacific Palisades: The Alphabet Streets, Huntington Palisades, Castellammare, The Highlands, Marquez Knolls, The Riviera, Rustic Canyon, El Medio Bluffs, Sunset Mesa.
Pacific Palisades ZIP codes served: 90272.
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(310) 546-4855 We take down houses, garages, and small structures across Los Angeles. Our own trucks haul the debris, so the lot is clear and ready for your builder.
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We tear down sheds, decks, patio covers and pergolas across the Westside and South Bay. The debris leaves in our own trucks.
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A house that needs to come down, a garage full of junk, a lot that needs clearing? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing, teardown through haul-off. The estimate is free.
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