Light demolition in Golden Valley, AZ

On a light demolition job in Golden Valley, Brandon Woodhouse takes the thing apart first and hauls off what's left, and he does the same anywhere in Mohave County. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. Every other job on this site starts with something already loose on the floor. This one starts with a pry bar: deck boards come up, fence panels come off their posts, kitchen cabinets get unscrewed from the wall, and the shed frame in the side yard comes down to the slab before anything rides away.

He prices the job and answers the phone himself, then shows up and does the work. Nobody else gets handed the pry bar once the price is set. Send a picture of the deck or the cabinet wall and Brandon comes back with a number before he drives out. The minimum on any job is $250. What he wants from the photo is scale, so step back far enough that the whole run of it is in frame, and say in the text which room or which side of the house it's on.

A demo job usually arrives mixed. Half of it is the thing he just took apart and half is whatever was stacked around it in the garage or the spare room. Brandon loads both in the same visit, so the room is empty when he pulls out. If the walls and the framing are already down and the pile is just sitting there, removal of construction and remodel debris is the closer fit, and it's priced off a photo the same way this one is.

What goes on the truck

• Deck boards and railings
• Fence panels and posts
• Kitchen cabinets and countertops
• Bathroom vanities
• Closet shelving
• Patio covers and awnings
• Shed and playhouse framing
• Carpet and tack strip

Text a photo of yours to (559) 479-1199.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: remodel debris and light teardowns.

What counts as light demolition

Light demolition means the thing has to come apart before it can be hauled. A back deck gone soft underfoot. A fence line with the posts rotted off at the base. Kitchen cabinets and a bathroom vanity coming out ahead of the new ones. Closet shelving screwed into studs. A patio cover or a backyard shed comes down to the slab. Brandon keeps to the non-structural pieces, the parts that come off a house without touching what holds the roof up. Two kinds of calls come in on this. Homeowners mid-project who hit something they'd rather not wrestle alone, and managers who need a built-in gone before the unit shows again. Either way he wants to see it in a photo first.

Where the pieces go after

A cabinet run that comes off the wall clean doesn't have to be trash. Brandon looks at it first for a donation center: solid cabinet doors, or a vanity with a good top somebody else can use. What nobody wants gets recycled where it can be. Split deck boards and drywall that crumbled coming off the studs are real trash, and those go to the landfill. He sorts while he loads rather than tipping the whole pile in one place. If something in the tear-out is worth keeping, say so before he starts. He'll pull the screws instead of the pry bar and set it aside on the patio for you.

What he leaves behind on a tear-out

Demo work turns up the things he can't put on the load. The shelf in the shed behind the thing he's tearing out is usually the problem: paint, solvents, thinners and household chemicals all have to stay put. So do propane tanks and every other pressurized cylinder, the patio and camping ones included. Car batteries stay, so does anything with liquid still in it, and so do the motor oil, the antifreeze and the fuel cans. Pool and spa chemicals count as household hazardous waste. Asbestos is the one that halts a tear-out on an older house. Old sheet flooring, old sprayed ceiling texture, anything that might contain it: a licensed abatement contractor has to clear the room before he works in it. An appliance still on gas, water or power needs disconnecting before it can move. If the transfer station turns something away he can't take it either, so ask him and he'll check.

What a tear-out costs

The minimum on a tear-out is $250. One number covers the taking apart and the hauling both, and he sets it from the photo you send. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. Two photos help more than one here: a close shot of what's coming apart and a wide one showing how much of it there is. The quote costs nothing. If you want the longer explanation, how junk removal pricing works here goes through it in more detail than a service page can.

How he takes it apart and gets it out

Brandon works it apart in pieces small enough to carry, and he stacks as he goes so the yard doesn't end up worse than when he got there. Nothing needs to be moved out front first. He carries it from where it sits, down the stairs or through the side gate if that's the way out. If the way out runs down a tight hallway, put that in the text so he can plan the pieces around it. It goes on a pickup truck with a trailer. On a rental or a storefront, he'll settle the timing with the manager by phone and sort out which door he's using and where he can park while the pieces come down. He works Monday through Saturday from 7 to 5, with Sunday off.

Demo calls across Mohave County

Brandon is based in Golden Valley and the demo calls run out from there. Laughlin has a page of its own, and so do Lake Havasu City, Bullhead City and Fort Mohave. Kingman, Dolan Springs and Mohave Valley do too. Oatman, Chloride, White Hills, Yucca and Valle Vista have no page and get the same calls anyway. The county is spread out, so say which town it's in when you send the photo and he'll work out a day from there. B&H Junk Removal is a service-area business, so there's nowhere to haul a stack of deck boards to; he drives out to the property instead. If your town isn't named above, every town a tear-out call can come from is listed here.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (559) 479-1199. Brandon texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $250. More on how pricing works.

Where Brandon does this

All of Mohave County. See every town Brandon covers for light demolition.