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Barns, garages, foundations, mobile homes, and outbuildings — demolished, hauled, and graded smooth. Based in Mattoon, IL, working Charleston, Effingham, Shelbyville, Decatur, Champaign, Urbana and every town in the 60-mile radius between them.
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Snap it, send it, and we'll tell you what we're looking at.Demolition contractor in Mattoon, IL — serving Charleston, Effingham, Shelbyville, Decatur, Champaign, and Urbana. Looking for demolition contractors near you, or demolition services near Mattoon, Charleston or Champaign? That is the radius we work every day. Brohez Trucking LLC tears down barns, garages, sheds, mobile homes, houses, pole barns, grain bins, foundations, and in-ground pools — residential, ag, and commercial — then hauls the debris and leaves clean dirt. Insured, owner-operated, on a 60-mile radius covering Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, Champaign, and Macon counties. Free on-site estimate, or text a photo to (217) 809-0779.
When something needs to come down, you don't want surprises. You want it down, hauled off, and the site cleaned up — without dragging on for weeks or running the bill up sideways.
Wondering how long it takes? The machine work is the short part — most of a demolition timeline is the permit, the utility disconnect, and (on a commercial or ag building) the 10-working-day asbestos notice. We broke the whole schedule down, structure by structure, in how long a demolition job actually takes.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles demolition across central Illinois — old barns, garages, sheds, mobile homes, foundations, in-ground pools, and partial structure removals. Residential, agricultural, and commercial, from the Coles County farm ground around Mattoon and Charleston north to Champaign and Urbana, west to Shelbyville and Decatur, and south to Effingham.
Searching demolition companies near me and turning up outfits three counties away, or brokers who sub the whole job out? We're based in Mattoon and work a 60-mile radius with our own machines and trucks. You deal with Levi — the man on the machine, not a call center — and the travel is built into your estimate instead of tacked on afterward. A teardown in Tuscola or Paris gets priced the same way a teardown two miles from the shop does.
The Komatsu PC150LC handles the heavy work. The JCB mini and Takeuchi skid steer get into the tight spots and clean up after. Dump trucks haul the debris straight to a proper disposal site. Tear-down to clean dirt is one job, one contractor.
We're straight about what's in the structure before we start. If we see signs of asbestos, lead paint, or other hazards, we'll tell you and recommend the right next step. No corner-cutting on the things that matter.
A good share of teardowns are really the first half of a build. If something is going back on that ground — a shop, a new pole barn, a garage — say so on the first walk. We haul the old foundation out instead of caving it in, bring clean fill, compact it in lifts, and hand off a pole barn pad or building pad shot to grade. One mobilization covers the teardown and the pad instead of paying a second outfit to come back out in the spring.
Trying to work out what your teardown will run before you call? Start with what demolition costs in central Illinois — it walks through the nine things that actually set the price, then breaks out by building type: house, garage, barn, pole barn, shed, mobile home, grain bin, and in-ground pool. Every one of them ends the same way: the site walk and the itemized number are free.
Structures built before about 1980 can carry asbestos in old siding, shingles, floor tile, or pipe wrap. It's common and it's manageable — it just has to be handled the right way, not bulldozed and ignored.
Which rule applies is decided by the building, not its age. A single-family private residence — four dwelling units or fewer — is exempt from the pre-demolition asbestos survey and the IEPA 10-working-day notification. A commercial, institutional or agricultural building is not: the survey and the notice are required, and we coordinate both and build the 10-day clock into the schedule. It's worth confirming the specifics with your local IEPA office, and we'll point you the right direction. New to the lingo? Our plain-English demolition glossary explains NESHAP, CCDD clean fill, tipping fees, and more — and before you sign with anybody, read what to ask a demolition contractor, which lays out the four questions a real crew answers without dancing.
Talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a call center. Call (217) 809-0779.
The shop sits on US Highway 45 just outside Mattoon, and the machines work a 60-mile radius out of it. That circle covers Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, Champaign, Macon, Christian, Clark, Edgar, and Jasper counties in Illinois, plus Vigo County across the Indiana line. Mobilization is built into the estimate — a teardown in Champaign doesn't pay a travel fee a teardown in Mattoon skips.
Mattoon and Charleston, plus the farm ground and county roads between them. Our shop is here, so this is where same-week scheduling is easiest — house and garage teardowns in town, barns and machine sheds out in the country.
Champaign, Urbana, and the smaller towns north of us. Older housing stock near campus, detached garages and sheds in established neighborhoods, and farmstead teardowns out toward Fisher and Rantoul. Roughly an hour up I-57 from the shop.
Champaign · Urbana · Savoy · Sidney · Mahomet · Rantoul · Fisher
West of us — Shelbyville and Windsor around Lake Shelbyville, Decatur for the bigger site-clearing and commercial work, Pana out on the far edge of the radius. Lake-area properties often mean an old cabin, a boathouse, or a shed that has to come out without tearing up the yard.
Shelbyville · Windsor · Decatur · Pana
South down I-57 and out into the Embarras River country. Effingham for light commercial and residential, and rural ag demolition — corn cribs, hog barns, grain bins — through Neoga, Toledo, Greenup, and Newton.
Tuscola, Arcola, and Sullivan — a half hour or less from the shop. Amish country around Arcola means a lot of older timber-frame barns and outbuildings; Sullivan runs to farm buildings and lake-adjacent residential work.
East along I-70 and over the state line. Casey, Marshall, and Paris for farm and residential teardowns; Terre Haute is in our regular rotation and we work the surrounding Vigo County area. Full liability and equipment coverage applies in Indiana the same as it does at home.
Casey · Marshall · Paris · Terre Haute, IN
We don't draw a hard line at anybody's city limits. Most of what we tear down sits on a county road with a rural route address, not in a subdivision — if you're inside the radius and the job pencils, we'll come look at it. Not sure whether you're in it? See the full service area or just call (217) 809-0779 and give us your township.
Every tear-down is different. The basics don't change.
We come look at the structure, talk through what's coming down, check for hazards, and give you a straight number. No pressure.
We help figure out what permits are needed and call in the utility locates. You call the electric, gas, and water companies to shut off service to the structure — they only take that request from the account holder. We handle the private side: pulling or capping the well, getting the propane tank removed, and capping the sewer.
Take out anything you want to keep before we mobilize. Once we start, the structure comes down as a unit. Metal is separated for scrap and everything else is hauled.
The Komatsu does the heavy work. We work the structure down in a controlled sequence — no surprises, no dropping things on what's nearby.
We break out the foundation if it's part of the job, separate metals when possible, and load debris onto dump trucks for proper disposal.
We backfill the hole, grade the site flat, and walk you through the finished work. Clean dirt — ready for whatever comes next.
If it's standing and shouldn't be, we can probably help.
Old barns, sheds, corn cribs, machine sheds, and farm outbuildings — torn down and hauled off, foundation included if needed.
Detached garages, carports, and pole barns — broken down and removed cleanly, even when they're attached or in tight spaces.
Old slabs, basements, and footings broken out, hauled, and backfilled. Common after a fire or a previous demo that left the foundation behind.
Old single-wides and double-wides demolished and hauled off, including the pad and any tie-downs.
Old grain bins and silos taken down and hauled off, footings and concrete pad broken out and graded back.
Concrete-stave, poured, tile, and steel silos cleaned out and brought down safe, pad and ring footing out, ground graded.
Country elevators taken down mechanically — headhouse, leg, crib or concrete storage, boot pit and tunnel out below grade, site backfilled and graded.
Old pole barns broken down post by post, posts pulled below grade, tin and lumber separated and hauled.
In-ground pool demolition and fill — concrete or vinyl, partial or full removal, with the site graded to match the yard.
Cleanup of fire-damaged structures and storm debris, including separating metal and hauling away unsalvageable material.
Removing additions, lean-tos, chimneys, or sections of a larger structure without disturbing the rest. Surgical work.
Lot-wide demolition for redevelopment — multiple structures, foundations, and concrete cleared in one mobilization.
Old farmhouses and homes torn down for a rebuild or cleared off the property — foundation and basement out, debris hauled, site graded.
Corn cribs, hog barns, machine sheds, and whole farmstead cleanups — taken down and hauled off, ground left ready to farm or build.
Smaller jobs done quick with the skid steer — sheds, decks, old fence rows, and the slab underneath if you want it gone.
Small-town storefronts, old gas stations, shops, and light commercial buildings — right-sized teardown work, not downtown high-rises.
Septic, heating-oil, and farm fuel tanks dug out and hauled — and we bring in a licensed party if a tank shows contamination.
Same machines, same crew, same clean dirt at the end — but a farmstead teardown and a commercial strip-out don't run the same way. Here's how each one goes.
Homeowners and acreage owners. Houses, garages, sheds, mobile homes, in-ground pools, and old foundations — torn down with the lawn, drive, septic, and neighbors in mind. We protect what stays, cap what needs capping, backfill, and grade it so you can mow it. Most residential tear-downs are a one- to three-day job.
House demolition · Garage & shed · Mobile home · Pool demolition
Farmers, landowners, and farm managers. Barns, pole barns, machine sheds, corn cribs, grain bins, and silos. We work around standing crops, field access, and your calendar — and scrap steel comes off for recycling instead of getting buried in the hole. Ground goes back to farmable or buildable.
Barn demolition · Pole barn · Grain bin · Silo removal · Farm buildings
Property owners, contractors, and municipalities. Interior strip-outs, small commercial buildings, concrete and slab removal, storm- and fire-damaged structures, and grain elevators. Certificate of Insurance emailed before we roll in, scope in writing, and a site you can hand straight to the next trade. We work with GCs as a sub or direct for the owner.
Commercial demolition · Interior demolition · Concrete removal · Storm & fire damage · Grain elevators
Most people figure demolition is a spring and summer job and call us in April. Winter is a real option, and on some properties it is the better one — not because the work is easier, but because the ground holds.
What stops a teardown is usually access, not the building. A tracked excavator and loaded dump trucks have to get to it, and in March a yard, a field lane, or a soft two-track turns into ruts you will be looking at all summer. Frozen ground carries that weight. When the top of the ground is hard, we can cross the lawn, come through a field entrance, and set the machine where it needs to sit without tearing up the route in or the grass around it. If keeping your yard and your lane intact matters, that is the strongest argument for a cold-weather date we have.
Straight about the other side of it: frozen ground is harder to dig. Footings, a foundation, a basement wall, or an old concrete floor all come out slower when the ground around them is frozen, and backfill and final grade are the parts that suffer most — frozen clods will not compact and will not shape up smooth. So on some jobs the building comes down in the cold, the footprint is left safe, and we come back for the foundation, the backfill, and the finish grade after a thaw. We will tell you at the walk whether yours is a one-trip job or a two-trip job. What we will not tell you is that a frozen job goes faster, because it does not.
Snow and deep frost also hide things. A well head, an old cistern or septic lid, buried concrete, downed fence wire, the drop-off at the edge of a lot — a few inches of snow covers all of it, and frost hides the soft spot underneath. A walk is still a walk. If there is snow on the ground we would rather come look at it with you and have you point at what we cannot see than find it with a track.
None of that makes winter the only right time to take a building down. Firm, dry fall ground is a good window too, and plenty of buildings come down in July. The point is that winter is not the dead season people treat it as, and the schedule is usually more open. If you have been waiting for spring to call, call while it is cold and we will pick the window together: (217) 809-0779.
Some teardowns aren't a project you schedule around the weather. A building the county has condemned, a roof that's already let go, a wall leaning over a fence line, a barn the wind opened up last week — those move to the front of the schedule.
We're owner-operated and local to Mattoon, so there's no branch office deciding when a truck is available. Call or text a photo during the workday and Levi looks at it the same day. If it's genuinely unsafe, we get out to walk it ahead of work that can wait.
Straight about what that means: we're a small owner-operated crew working Monday through Saturday, not a 24-hour emergency contractor. We won't promise you a crew at midnight. What we will do is put an unsafe structure ahead of the jobs that can sit, and tell you on the phone exactly how soon we can be there instead of guessing to win the job.
Where it usually comes from:
Utilities have to be off before anything comes down, and on a condemned structure that's often the long pole. We'll tell you which disconnects you have to call in yourself and which we handle, so nothing stalls on the day.
Not every structure gets its own page — but around here we've torn down about everything a farm, a backyard, or a small town can put up. Pick the closest match below, or just call (217) 809-0779 and describe it.
Real demolition jobs from around central Illinois.
Older structures can have asbestos, lead paint, or other hazards. We recommend a pre-demo inspection if there's any doubt and proper abatement before tear-down. We're straight about what we find.
Yes. Cleanup is part of the job — debris hauled, foundation removed if needed, site graded smooth.
It's your property — take out whatever you want before we mobilize. Once we're on site the structure comes down as a unit; we don't hand-pull material out of it. Metal goes out as scrap, everything else is hauled.
A small shed or garage is usually a day. A big barn or full house with foundation removal is several days. We give a realistic timeline at the estimate.
Demolition pricing depends on size, materials, hazardous content (like asbestos), debris disposal, and access. When you're comparing demolition companies in central Illinois, the thing to check is whether hauling and disposal sit inside the quoted number — ours do. We give free on-site estimates with a straight number. Call (217) 809-0779.
It depends on what's being demolished and where. Most cities in central Illinois require a demolition permit; rural and farm structures often don't. We'll let you know what's required and help you navigate it.
Yes. Foundation-only removal is common when an old structure has been removed but the slab or basement remains. We break it out, haul it, and backfill or grade as needed.
Yes. Champaign County is a regular run for us — Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Rantoul, and Fisher are all inside the 60-mile radius, roughly an hour up I-57 from the shop. Garages, sheds, houses, and farmstead buildings. Mobilization is built into the estimate; there is no separate travel charge.
Yes. Shelbyville and Windsor are about a half hour west of Mattoon, and we work the lake area regularly — old cabins, boathouses, sheds, and decks, plus farm buildings out in Shelby County. Tight lake lots usually get the mini excavator and skid steer instead of the Komatsu so the yard and drive stay intact.
60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — Charleston, Effingham, Decatur, Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Rantoul, Fisher, Shelbyville, Windsor, Sullivan, Tuscola, Arcola, Neoga, Toledo, Greenup, Newton, Casey, Marshall, Paris, Pana, and Terre Haute, Indiana. That's Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, Champaign, Macon, Christian, Clark, Edgar, and Jasper counties, plus Vigo County across the Indiana line.
If you're inside a 60-mile radius of Mattoon, Illinois, yes. Brohez Trucking LLC handles barn, garage, house, mobile home, foundation and outbuilding demolition, debris haul-off, and smooth grading throughout that radius — Decatur, Champaign, Effingham, Charleston, Urbana, Sullivan, Tuscola, Shelbyville, Pana, and Terre Haute included. You deal with Levi, the owner running the machine, and travel is built into the estimate rather than added afterward. Call or text a photo during the workday and you get a straight number back the same day. Free on-site estimate: (217) 809-0779.
Yes, and winter is often a good time for it. Frozen ground carries the excavator and the loaded trucks, so we can reach a building across a yard or a field lane without rutting it up the way we would in spring mud — where keeping the grass and the lane intact matters, that is worth scheduling around. The honest tradeoff is that frozen ground digs slower: footings, foundation removal, backfill and final grade can run long or wait for a thaw, so some winter jobs come down in one trip and get finished in a second. We will tell you which one yours is at the walk; a frozen job is not a faster job. Snow also hides well heads, old lids, and buried concrete, so we still want to walk it with you before anything moves. Call (217) 809-0779.
Yes — Champaign is inside our 60-mile working radius from Mattoon, and we are on jobs up there regularly. Brohez Trucking LLC handles house, garage, barn, mobile home, pole barn, foundation and outbuilding demolition near Champaign and Urbana, hauls the debris off, and grades the lot clean behind it. Rental property, an old shop building, or a tenant space getting gutted before a rebuild are the three we see most often up there. If you are comparing demolition contractors near Champaign, the difference here is that you deal with Levi, the owner running the machine, and travel is built into the estimate rather than added afterward. Free on-site estimate: (217) 809-0779, or see demolition in Champaign, IL.
Brohez Trucking LLC delivers demolition across a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, IL — into Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Christian, Jasper, Edgar, Clark, Champaign, and Macon counties, plus over the line into Vigo County, Indiana. Pick your town below for local details, or call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in the radius.
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"We hired Levy for a large demo job and dirt removal. They showed up on time, worked hard, and completed the job faster than I expected. What impressed me most was how clean they left the site afterwards — no mess left behind."
"Great Service and Great Price! They continued working for 3 days to demolish three buildings and removed all the debris to dumpsters that I ordered. Then, they also came in with dirt to fill the whole backyard. Strongly recommended!"
"Very responsive, fair pricing, and easy to work with. Did a great job for our project."
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