Light Demolition & Hauling Around Brainerd
Some lots need something gone before anything can start. Brainerd Lakes Dirt Works does light demolition and hauling around Brainerd — small structures taken down, debris loaded and hauled, and the ground left clean and graded behind us.
Light is the honest word. Our scope is the small stuff: a tired shed, an old garage, a small outbuilding, a deck, a fallen barn section. Houses and big structures are a bigger contractor's job — we'll tell you plain if yours is past our scope, and the lot work after is still ours.
Hauling is the other half: dirt that has to leave a dig, debris that has to leave a tear-down, loads moved where they need to go. Dirt hauling runs $300–$600 a load, the same figure as haul-off on a dig. Debris prices by the load and the dump, quoted in writing after the look.
The smart sequence is demo, haul, grade — one crew, one visit plan, and the lot ends ready for whatever's next: a pad, a driveway, a yard. Half our demo jobs end in exactly that, with the grading and drainage done while the machines are already there.
Permits and utilities first, always: a structure coming down gets its services disconnected and its paperwork sorted before we touch it. We flag what we know on the look; the disconnects are the owner's to arrange.
How the Job Runs
The look: what the structure is, what's in it, where the loads can go, and what the ground should look like after. The written estimate names the scope — down, loaded, hauled, graded. On the day we take it down in control, load as we go, and haul to the proper dump. Last pass is the grade: the footprint smoothed into the lot so there's no scar left to mow around.
Demolition usually opens the door to the real project. The same machines that take the old garage down can dig the new one's pad — that's excavation services, and booking the run together saves a second mobilization.
Do you take down houses?
No — our demolition scope is small structures: sheds, garages, outbuildings, decks. If yours is bigger, we'll say so on the look and the lot work after the big crew leaves is still a job we'd like.
What happens to the debris?
It's loaded and hauled to the proper disposal site — that's in the written price. Nothing gets buried on your lot unless you ask for clean fill to be spread, and demolition debris never gets buried, period.
Can you haul dirt I dug myself?
Yes — if you've got a pile that needs to go, we load and haul at $300–$600 a load depending on the haul. Call with the rough size of the pile.
Something on the lot that needs to go? Call (612) 260-8779 — we'll look, write the price, and leave it clean.