Mobile Home Demolition in South Carolina

One number statewide; one variable per county

Our quote in South Carolina is a flat $6,500 — permits, teardown or tow-out, disposal, and a grade-ready pad, whether the home is a single-wide or a double. What we absorb inside that number changes county to county, because the landfill sets its own rules. Georgetown County bills a dismantled mobile home as Special Waste at $80 per ton while ordinary C&D pays $46. Oconee County's landfill will not take a whole mobile home at all — the unit must be dismantled and the materials separated before the gate. Horry County runs everything across one scale at $47.50 per ton but makes special waste pass a pre-evaluation first. Same state, three different jobs. We publish every rate we have verified on the county disposal-fee table, sourced to each county's own schedule.

When South Carolina itself gets involved

The state's demolition interest runs through asbestos regulation R.61-86.1. A mobile home standing alone as a private residence is excluded from the rule's “facility” definition — no state-mandated survey, no state demolition license for that one teardown. The exemption dies the moment the job grows: clearing several homes in one park under one owner, a teardown inside a commercial or public project, or a home last used for something other than living all pull the full regime — a survey by a SC-licensed asbestos building inspector no more than three years old, an ePermitting application to SCDES at least ten working days ahead, and a $50 demolition project license — required even when the inspection finds no asbestos. The statute-level detail lives on our SC requirements page; the practical version is that we know which side of the fork a job sits on before we schedule it.

Two landfill classes and a permission letter

Debris from a South Carolina teardown has two legal destinations under R.61-107.19: a Class Two landfill, which accepts structural debris — lumber including treated lumber, floor covering, vinyl siding, plaster, pipes, insulation, even furniture and mattresses — or a Class Three municipal landfill. Asbestos-containing material is Class Two eligible only after the waste generator obtains a “permission for disposal” letter from the Bureau of Air Quality and hands it to the landfill, which must keep it on file for three years and bury the material under six inches of cover on arrival. And the shortcut every rural lot owner eventually asks about is off the table: structural burns are prohibited under the state's open-burning regulations. The debris rides in a truck or it does not go.

The paper trail that outlives the teardown

Demolition-in-place needs no state moving permit — S.C. Code 31-17-360 attaches the county moving permit and its treasurer's tax certificate to relocation, and a home that dies on its own lot never relocates. The title is the piece people forget. South Carolina's manufactured-home title article has procedures for affixing a home to land and for severing it, but none for destruction — so the clean practice is a title assignment to the contractor before teardown, or surrender at the county's intake desk. If the title is lost, SCDMV issues a replacement for $15 — to the lienholder first if one is on record. For a derelict home the owner will not deal with, S.C. Code 6-1-150 gives landowners and local officials a magistrates-court path to have it removed and destroyed after 30 days of posted notice.

Trailer, single-wide, manufactured — the excavator does not check the label

Half the people who need this service search for “mobile home demolition”; the other half type “tear down a trailer,” “old trailer removal,” or “manufactured home demolition companies.” They are the same job. The frame is the same steel, the county scale charges the same tonnage, and our price is the same flat $6,500. If what you own is a 1978 single-wide the family has always called the trailer, every word on this page applies to it.