Demolition
Houses, garages, barns, sheds and small commercial buildings taken down, plus interior demolition and concrete removal, with the site cleaned up after.
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Essexville is a small city with old bones. The median home here was built around 1952, and close to a quarter of the housing predates 1940. Behind those houses sit garages that have settled, sheds with rotted floors and driveways that have broken apart. City lots run narrow, so a teardown has to come down without wrecking the yard beside it.
Contracting Pros is a demolition contractor based in Bay City, a couple of miles west of Essexville. We take down houses, garages, barns, sheds and small commercial buildings, and we break out old concrete. Beyond demolition we handle land clearing and general contracting for Essexville property owners. Estimates are free, so call or text (501) 520-1783.
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Essexville covers about 900 acres, and most of it was built on long ago. Of the roughly 1,350 housing units in the city, more than 300 went up before 1940. Another 430 were built in the 1950s. Fewer than 30 have been added since 2010, so the structures that come down here are old ones.
That age shows up in the same few places. Detached garages built for smaller cars lean and settle. Back sheds give way at the floor, and old porch and stoop concrete lifts and cracks. We take those down, break out the slab underneath and haul it off.
Some Essexville jobs are interior only. We strip a kitchen, a bath or a basement back to the framing so the rebuild can start clean. That is often the first step of a kitchen, bathroom or basement remodel in a house this old. Space is tight too, with about 3,300 people in a little over a square mile.
Most demolition in Essexville needs a permit before anything moves. Inside the city, construction permits and inspections go through the Essexville building department. Addresses just past the city line fall under Hampton Charter Township. We pull the permit or tell you what your address calls for.
Utilities come first. Gas, electric, water and sewer are typically disconnected before a building comes down. Michigan also requires underground utility lines to be marked before any excavation, so we file a MISS DIG 811 locate. Those flags go in before we touch the ground.
Asbestos is a real question here because of the housing age. Michigan runs its asbestos program through EGLE, and a demolition typically needs an inspection and a state notification. Older siding, floor tile and pipe wrap are the usual places it turns up. We guide that step so the paperwork is filed before the machine shows up.
Essexville runs along the east bank of the Saginaw River, a few miles up from Saginaw Bay. Roughly 1.4 miles of that river frontage inside the city is industrial ground. Smith Park and the Main Street boat launch put the water right at the edge of the neighborhoods. Vacant and aging commercial buildings are part of the local picture, and small commercial demolition is work we take on.
The town has watched big structures go quiet. Consumers Energy shut the coal units at the Karn plant north of town in June 2023. The Weadock plant beside it closed back in 2016, and two gas units at Karn are still online. Those are utility projects on a scale no house lot ever sees.
The ground under Essexville is old lake plain, flat and heavy with clay. Water sits close to the surface, so a foundation hole can fill before the day is out. We plan the dig, the backfill and the finished grade around that. Frost and thaw work this ground every winter, which is why so much Essexville concrete has broken up.
Hampton Charter Township starts at the east edge of Essexville, and Essexville itself was part of it until 1934. Lots get bigger fast out along Nebobish, Finn, Knight and Boutell roads. Out there the demolition work is barns, old outbuildings and farm sheds. Concrete pads and silo bases usually come out with them.
Clearing goes with that work. Fence lines grow in, brush swallows the back of a lot, and small trees crowd a drive. We clear it off, grind or haul what is cut and leave the ground ready to use.
Michigan lost most of its ash trees to the emerald ash borer. Dead standing ash is common around Bay County. A dead ash leaning toward a house, a drive or a power drop calls for hazardous tree removal. We bring those down in pieces when they sit tight to a structure, then clear the wood and brush away.
Communities and areas we serve around Essexville: Woodside Avenue corridor, Main Street riverfront, Borton Avenue, Scheurmann Street, Pine Road, Nebobish Road, Finn Road, Knight Road, Boutell Road, Center Road, Youngs Ditch Road, Hampton Charter Township.
Essexville ZIP codes served: 48732.
Free estimates throughout Bay County and the surrounding area.
(501) 520-1783 Houses, garages, barns, sheds and small commercial buildings taken down, plus interior demolition and concrete removal, with the site cleaned up after.
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Learn More We take down dead, dying, leaning and storm damaged trees that threaten a house, driveway or fence. The debris goes with the job, so the yard is clear when we leave.
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We run residential and commercial projects across the Great Lakes Bay Region as your general contractor. One point of contact covers the estimate, the permits, the trades and the schedule.
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Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Essexville. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us what needs to come down and where the property is. Call or text (501) 520-1783, or send the details through the form and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the job. We will get right back to you.