Send a picture of the building to (217) 809-0779 and you are talking to the man who will run the machine. Here is exactly what to send and what happens after.
Most people send one close-up of the worst corner. That is the least useful picture. Three shots from a distance tell us more than ten from arm’s length.
Cannot get a clean picture — overgrown, snowed in, or you are not local to the property? Send what you have and we will work with it. A rough photo and an address beats waiting until spring.
None of it is a test. These are the five things that actually move a demolition job, and knowing them up front is the difference between a real number and a guess.
If the building went up before about 1980 we will also talk through the Illinois EPA asbestos notification. On most single-family homes it does not apply; on farm and commercial buildings it often does, and it carries a ten-day clock. It is a schedule item, not a scare tactic — and it is one of the most common reasons somebody else’s date slips.
Send a picture of the structure to (217) 809-0779. One wide shot is enough to start. No form, no account, no salesman calls you back — it comes to the phone in the truck.
Where it is, roughly how big, whether the foundation or slab is coming out, and whether anything is still hooked up to it. Usually three or four messages, not an interrogation.
For anything bigger than a shed we come look. That is where hazards, access, buried surprises and the haul route get settled. The visit is free and there is no obligation.
One written number that already includes the teardown, the debris haul-off, the concrete if it is coming out, and the grade behind it. Itemized so you can see what each part costs you.
You will find sites that will give you a demolition price in four clicks without anyone looking at your building. We are not going to do that, and it is worth saying why.
A number you read before anyone sees your ground becomes the number in your head. Every real quote afterward gets measured against it — including ours, and including the honest ones from the other guys. When the calculator was low, every real contractor looks like they are gouging you. When it was high, you delay a job you could have afforded two years ago.
What actually moves a demolition number is your building and your site: what it is built from, what is under it, how far the debris has to travel, and how hard it is to get a machine and trucks to it. None of that is knowable from a dropdown. It is knowable in about twenty minutes standing in your yard, and that visit costs you nothing.
Talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a call center. Call (217) 809-0779.
Anything on this list, and plenty that is not. If it is old, in the way, and should not be standing, send a picture.
We cover a 60-mile radius from Mattoon, Illinois — Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, Edgar, Clark, Champaign and Macon counties, and the towns in between. See the full service area.
No. The photo exchange, the phone call and the on-site walk are all free, and there is no obligation to book the work. We would rather look at ten buildings and tear down three than quote something off a web page and be wrong about it.
One wide shot of the whole structure from the side you would drive up to, one of the far end so we can see the length, and one of anything unusual — a lean, a collapsed section, an attached lean-to, a slab, or a burned area. If you can, stand back far enough that the whole building fits in the frame. A photo from thirty feet back tells us more than five close-ups.
We can tell you what your job depends on, and if you are a long way outside our radius we will tell you that on the first call rather than waste your time. What we will not do is name a number before somebody has looked at your building. A figure you hear before anyone sees your ground becomes the number in your head, and every real quote afterward gets measured against it — including ours.
Usually same day for the first reply, and the site walk within a few days depending on where we are working. If you have a closing date, an insurance deadline or a village letter with a date on it, say so up front and we will work to it.
The address or a pin, whether the foundation and slab are coming out or staying, whether the building still has power, gas, water or a septic connection, whether there is a well on the property, and roughly when you want it gone. If it was built before about 1980 we will also talk through the asbestos notification, because that is a schedule item and not a surprise we want on tear-down day.
Yes, and a whole farmstead is one visit rather than one per building. Barns, corn cribs, hog barns, machine sheds, granaries, milk houses, chicken houses, grain bins and silos all count. Clearing several at once is cheaper per building than separate trips, and we will price it both ways so you can see the difference.
One wide shot is enough to start the conversation. Free, no obligation, and you are talking to the owner.