Mobile Home Demolition in Brunswick County, NC

The county that prints its mobile-home price

Every teardown quote in this business has a disposal number buried in it. Brunswick County is one of the few places that publishes that number where anyone can read it: the county's Accepted Items and Tipping Fees page carries an actual mobile-home clause — $59 per ton if the unit will fit on the scale at the Brunswick County Landfill on Landfill Road NE in Bolivia, a flat $250 per single-wide if it will not, and $500 per single-wide hauled in with the contents still aboard. Construction debris and household waste tip at the same $59. With 17,001 manufactured homes standing in the county — Leland to Shallotte, Southport and Oak Island down to Calabash — that one paragraph of fee schedule governs more demolition money than any contractor's price sheet, so it is where we start every Brunswick quote.

Shrinking the billable tons

At $59 a ton, the winning move is not a cheaper excavator — it is fewer tons across the scale. NC DEQ's disposal guidance for manufactured homes says it plainly: separate the metal base, wheels, axles, window frames, and aluminum siding for recycling before the debris rides. That steel and aluminum is weight the landfill never bills — and published figures put a home's scrap recovery at $400 to $1,000. The county's accepted construction-and-demolition list (treated wood, sheetrock, doors, windows, vinyl and aluminum siding, PVC and metal pipe) takes the rest at the standard rate. Appliances dump free — refrigerators completely emptied of food — and tires carry no charge at the landfill, a Brunswick quirk worth knowing since only the Leland and Southport convenience centers otherwise accept them. Sorted this way, with loads running US 17, US 74, US 76, or NC 211 to Bolivia depending on which end of the county the pad sits, a demolition lands inside the published market band: $3,000 to $5,000 for a single-wide, $5,000 to $8,000 for a double, roughly $4 to $8 per square foot with disposal included. Panel-by-panel deconstruction runs higher — as much as $10,000 in published figures — and only makes sense when the salvage justifies it.

The $500 line: what a cleanout is actually worth

Read the flat-rate clause again: $250 per single-wide, $500 per single-wide with contents. The county literally prices an un-emptied home at double. That is the entire argument for clearing furniture, mattresses, and years of shed overflow before demolition day — left inside, that material either doubles a flat-rate tip or crosses the scale at $59 a ton as ordinary waste. The same clause frames the haul decision. An intact single-wide can go to Bolivia whole (published transport figures run $1,000 to $2,000 for a landfill haul), but state guidance prefers demolition or deconstruction over burying a unit intact, and Brunswick's flat line is written per single-wide only. On a double-wide, everything ends up crossing the scale by the ton — which means sort-and-strip discipline is the whole game.

Asbestos rides at $80 a ton, with state paper first

Older units can carry asbestos in flooring, mastic, and panels, and Brunswick prices that reality on the same fee page: asbestos disposal at $80 per ton, accepted at the landfill only, never at the convenience sites, handled in the county's words "in a special way." The state layer comes first. For one standalone home, North Carolina recommends rather than mandates a pre-demolition asbestos inspection, but any inspection done must come from an NC-accredited inspector, and the HHCU demolition notification (form DHHS 3768-D) has to be filed at least 10 working days before the start date — no fee, with the assigned NESHAP number displayed on site for the duration. Find regulated asbestos above the thresholds and the job escalates: accredited removal first, a DHHS 3768 permit with fees capped at $1,500, and abatement itself published at $1,192 to $3,240 (testing $250 to $850). Brunswick files with the state HHCU in Raleigh — only Buncombe, Forsyth, and Mecklenburg counties run their own local programs. The full walk-through is in our NC demolition requirements guide.

What the permit roll says about Brunswick teardowns

The county's manufactured-home permit dataset for 2025-2026 logs 306 permits — 299 of them setups, 151 involving moves, 175 double-wides, 60 different contractors working the county — and not one demolition filing in that lane. Homes pour in; the units they replace exit across the Bolivia scale, governed by the fee ledger rather than a permit queue. Two pieces of state paper still matter. If a home leaves your parcel intact instead of coming down — a removal, not a demolition — G.S. 105-316.1 requires a county tax permit before it rolls: free to issue once taxes are cleared, a Class 3 misdemeanor to skip, and officers can detain both hauler and home. And no NC statute lets you surrender a title because the home was demolished — G.S. 20-109.2 covers only conversion to real property, so the title either gets assigned to the remover or stays in your name after the debris is gone; we handle that assignment as part of the job. One last check before you commit: this is a HUD Wind Zone II county with 35 federal disaster declarations on record — the most recent five span a hurricane (2023), tropical storms (2024 and 2025), a fire (2025), and a winter storm (2026) — yet with 299 setups in two years, replacement demand is clearly alive. A storm-worn home is a teardown; a sound one may be worth more sold or moved out intact than scrapped.