Mobile Home Demolition in Horry County, SC

The county where demolition is the main event

The permit rolls tell the story better than any pitch: of 169 recent manufactured-home permits in Horry County (2024 through 2026), 75 were demolitions — against just 8 setups and 5 moves — spread across Conway, Loris, Longs, Myrtle Beach, and Galivants Ferry. That is what 34 federal disaster declarations and salt-air decades do to a housing stock of 28,038 manufactured homes: units age out faster than they move out. It also means the county apparatus — permit desk, landfill, haul routes down US-501 and US-701 — processes mobile-home teardowns every week, and a crew that knows the sequence clears a lot in days, not months.

Priced against the Hwy 90 schedule, not a national average

Every Horry demolition ends at the scale house: the Solid Waste Authority's Hwy 90 complex outside Conway runs both the Class 3 MSW landfill and the Class 2 C&D landfill, billing mixed construction debris at $47.50 per ton per its published fee schedule. A typical teardown load is tens of tons, so that rate — not the excavator — is the anchor of your quote. We work the schedule instead of eating it: the frame, axles, and aluminum skin come off for scrap; wood, metal, cardboard, and carpet can route through the SWA's C&D Recycling Facility; tires price separately at $150 per ton, so they come out first. Anything unusual gets the SWA's required special-waste pre-evaluation before it rides — surprises at the scale house are how other crews' quotes grow after signing.

The South Carolina legal layer, Horry edition

For one owner-occupied or standalone home, SC's asbestos program exempts the demolition — SCDES's rule excludes residences of four or fewer units. Clear several units at once — a park row in Loris, an estate parcel with three old singles — and the exemption is gone: licensed inspection, 10-working-day notification, $50 project license. Two more Horry-relevant rules: structural burns are prohibited statewide, and asbestos-containing debris needs a Bureau of Air Quality permission letter before any Class Two landfill takes it. Demolition-in-place needs no state moving permit (that statute only reaches homes that travel), but a home hauled out intact first would — with the county treasurer certifying taxes paid per S.C. Code 31-17-360. We run the whole sequence, and because this is a Wind Zone II county under 24 CFR 3280.305, we will tell you straight if your still-sound home is worth more sold as a rated unit than scrapped.