Mobile Home Removal in Kershaw County, SC

The pad is the asset. The old home is what is in its way.

A swap-out is a different job from a clear-out. When a Kershaw County property owner is replacing an aging single-wide with a newer unit, the thing being protected is not the home — it is the site: the graded pad, the power drop, the septic connection, the drive that already reaches a real road. The county's permit records back up how common this cycle is here: 331 mobile home permits on file for 2025-2026, including 36 moves and 23 demolitions, handled by 11 different contractors. With 5,808 manufactured homes countywide — from Camden and Lugoff out to Bethune and Cassatt — homes age out and pads get reused constantly. Our job on a replacement project is to take the old unit off that pad clean, on schedule, and leave everything the next home needs untouched.

Sequencing the swap so the new home lands on time

A replacement runs on the dealer's delivery calendar, not ours, so we work backward from it. First the walk-through: can the old home roll out intact down US-1, US-521, or US-601 to I-20, or has it settled, rotted, or been built onto until towing is off the table? If it rolls, the paperwork gate opens early — under S.C. Code 31-17-360, no moving permit issues until the county treasurer certifies the taxes are paid, and a home leaving the county needs the full current year settled. If it cannot roll, we demolish in place instead — which skips the state moving permit entirely, since the statute only attaches to relocation. Either way, the deadline logic is the same: an empty home does not improve while it waits. Kershaw County carries 28 federal disaster declarations, with hurricanes in 2022, 2023, and 2024, a tropical storm in 2024, and a winter storm in 2026 — every season a dead unit sits on the pad, the odds of removing it in one piece get worse.

What the swap costs: tow, teardown, or sell it first

Three prices, and we quote all three. By published market ranges, transporting an intact single-wide under 50 miles averages about $4,000 and a double-wide about $7,000. Teardown with disposal runs $3,000-$5,000 for a single-wide and $5,000-$8,000 for a double — roughly $4-$8 per square foot — with the haul to the landfill itself typically adding $1,000-$2,000 in transport. Full hand-deconstruction, where nearly everything is salvaged, can reach $10,000. Two offsets cut against those numbers on a replacement project: the steel chassis, axles, and aluminum skin carry $400-$1,000 in scrap value on an average home, and a structurally sound unit may not be a cost at all — a buyout offer can turn the outgoing home into part of the down payment on the incoming one. The cost guide breaks down where each number comes from.

The title swap underneath the home swap

Replacing a manufactured home is really two title transactions moving in opposite directions, and skipping either one haunts the property later. The outgoing home: if it was affixed to the land, a Severance Affidavit under S.C. Code 56-19-550 formally separates it before it is moved or destroyed. The incoming home: once it is installed, the retirement affidavit filed with the register of deeds lets SCDMV retire its title so the home and land become one taxable parcel. And on the demolition side, the state rulebook is lighter than most owners fear — SCDES asbestos regulation R.61-86.1 excludes a single private-residence mobile home from the survey-and-notification regime that governs commercial demolition, though multi-home clear-outs and park projects fall squarely back inside it. The SC requirements page walks the whole sequence.

Where the old home actually ends up

Kershaw County runs its own Class Two construction-and-demolition landfill at 860 Park Road in Cassatt, and under R.61-107.19 that class accepts exactly what a mobile home teardown produces: dimensional and treated lumber, floor covering, plasterboard, vinyl siding, insulation, glass, brick, and even furniture left inside. What the county does not do is publish its rates — the county solid waste pages list no dollar amounts, and the county code exempts personal users from landfill fees while leaving commercial rates to council action that is not posted online. So we will not put a tipping-fee number on this page that we cannot source; we confirm the current gate rate directly with the facility before a Kershaw quote goes final, and the metals never make the trip at all — frame, axles, and siding go to scrap, where they earn instead of cost.