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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Shed removal in Los Angeles means taking the structure apart where it stands and hauling every piece away. We tear down wood-framed sheds and metal or resin kit sheds. The same work covers decks, patio covers, pergolas, gazebos, playsets and carports. Some are still sound and just in the way. Others lean or have rotted where the wood meets the ground. Our crew empties the shed first, then takes it apart piece by piece. The pieces leave in our own trucks that same day. Before we go, the ground where the shed stood gets raked clean.
Southwest Hauling is a licensed demolition and hauling contractor, founded in Los Angeles in 1994. We run multiple crews, and every one works with our own trucks and equipment. The crew that takes your shed apart is the crew that hauls it away. For twenty years the City of Los Angeles kept us under contract to clear foreclosed, vacant and abandoned properties. Detached garages, pool houses, guest houses and whole houses are bigger jobs, and they run under house demolition. Clearing brush and debris from the ground around a shed is lot cleanup. We are licensed and insured, CA License 792182, and every estimate is free and in person.
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Shed demolition runs in a set order, and it starts with the utilities. If the shed has power or water, it gets shut off and capped. The utility or a licensed electrician or plumber does that work. Our crew starts after that. Point out any wiring or an outdoor faucet on the estimate visit. That way the lines are capped before the job day.
On the day, the contents come out first. Anything you want kept goes where you point. Then the roof comes off, followed by the wall panels. The framing and the floor come down after that. Posts and ground anchors get pulled or cut free at the base. Pieces go onto the truck as they come loose. Once the structure is gone, the crew rakes the ground clean of nails and scraps.
Each type comes apart a little differently. A metal or resin kit shed was bolted together, so it unbolts or cuts apart quickly. A wood shed built in place takes more cutting and fills more of the truck. Patio covers and pergolas come down beam by beam, with the posts last. Gazebos and carports follow the same top-down order, and so do old playsets. Long pieces get cut down to fit through your gate.
A deck on a flat yard comes apart from the top down. Railings go first, then the deck boards, then the joists and beams. The posts come out last. Leaves and junk that collected under the deck get raked out and loaded too. If a hot tub sits on the deck, the tub comes out first. That is hot tub removal, and one estimate covers both.
A hillside deck is slower and more careful work than a deck on a flat yard. Many sit on tall posts, and the slope drops away below them. Our crew works in safety harnesses on those decks. The order stays the same, from the railings down, with the posts last. A shed or a playset on a slope comes apart with the same care.
Then every piece gets carried by hand. On many hillside homes, that means a long run of stairs down to the street. The truck sits wherever the street has room, and the crew shuttles loads to it. On a hillside job the carry can take longer than the teardown. The estimator checks the stairs and where a truck can park before pricing it.
Once the shed is gone, whatever it sat on is still there. That might be a poured slab, a row of pier blocks or concrete footings under deck posts. Pier blocks lift out by hand and leave with the load. A slab can stay if a new shed is going back on the same spot. In that case the crew clears it down to bare concrete.
If you want the concrete gone, a saw cut first separates it from any patio or walk that stays. Then a hydraulic breaker or jackhammers break it up, and the pieces load straight into our trucks. That work is concrete removal. If a new structure is planned there, we rough grade the pad while the equipment is on site. That runs under grading and trenching.
A torn-down shed is a mix of materials, and the crew sorts them as it loads. Metal goes to metal recycling: steel panels, metal roofing, brackets and hardware. Clean concrete from a slab or footings is crushed for base rock at a certified recycling facility. Wood framing, siding, resin panels and old shingles go to a licensed transfer station. Every load goes in our own trucks, and the debris leaves the same day it comes down.
The City of Los Angeles has an ordinance on where this waste goes. It covers construction and demolition waste generated in the City. That waste has to be taken to a City certified construction and demolition waste processing facility. A torn-down shed or deck counts as demolition waste. It is a City of Los Angeles rule, so it applies inside City limits.
The City also runs a free pickup for bulky items. LASAN, the City's sanitation bureau, picks up items too large for a normal trash bin free of charge. The service is for residential customers. It does not take construction material, and a torn-down shed or deck is construction material. So a torn-down shed is not a curbside pickup. Our trucks carry it off instead, and you never rent a dumpster.
Our truck yard sits in the South Bay, just north of San Pedro, and the trucks run from there. Long Beach, San Pedro, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach are all close by. On the Westside, a longer drive north, our crews work Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air and Beverly Hills. Those ten are the whole service area, and we keep it that size.
Access is most of the planning on a shed job. In a tight backyard, the side gate sets how big each piece can be. In the beach cities, many lots are narrow and back onto an alley. When a truck can sit in the alley, the carry from the shed is short. On Westside hillsides, long stairs and steep driveways mean the pieces come down by hand.
Much of our work is at high-end homes, and discretion is routine. Crews park where they are told and keep the noise down. Some jobs come with an NDA, and the crew works to it. Call 310-546-4855, or fill out the contact form, and an estimator comes out free. On that visit, show the estimator the gate and the path to the street.
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(310) 546-4855From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
Tell us what needs to come down, come out or get hauled off. A few photos help. We cover the Westside and South Bay, Beverly Hills to Long Beach.
The estimate happens at the property, free. We check the structure, the access and where the trucks will sit, then give you one number for the whole job.
Multiple crews, our own trucks and equipment. The teardown, the loading and the hauling stay with one company, so the schedule holds.
Debris goes out on our trucks to licensed facilities. We sweep the street, clear the drive and leave the property ready for whatever comes next.
Common questions about shed removal across the Westside and South Bay. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
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 break out old driveways, patios, pool decks and slabs anywhere in Los Angeles. Our own trucks haul the broken concrete to a certified recycling facility, so removal and disposal are one job.
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We load and haul away furniture, appliances, mattresses and yard debris anywhere in Los Angeles. Our hauling services run out of a demolition company, so heavy and awkward loads are normal work for us.
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Vacant lots in Los Angeles collect two things, overgrowth and other people's trash. We clear both off the lot and haul it all away.
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We rough grade residential lots across Los Angeles, from a backyard cut to a level pad for a new build. Our crews trench for utilities and footings, then haul the extra dirt off the property.
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Hot tub, spa and swim spa removal across the Westside and South Bay. We cut the tub apart where it sits and haul every piece off in our own trucks.
View DetailsSouthwest Hauling was founded in 1994, and every job still gets priced in person. The slogan on the trucks has not changed since: It's All About Service. Same owner, same phone number, same standard.
Our own trucks and equipment do the loading and the hauling. Debris leaves on our schedule, not a bin company's. The teardown and the haul-off are one job and one price.
Twenty years of City of Los Angeles contracts clearing foreclosed and vacant properties. That work runs on deadlines and documentation, and the habit stuck. Sites get finished, not abandoned.
Much of our work sits behind gates on the Westside, and NDAs are routine. Crews park where you say, keep the site tidy and do not talk about whose property they are on.
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.
Tell us about your project and we will get right back to you.