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Black Diamond

City · Salt Lake County, UT

Junk Removal & Demolition in Holladay

Holladay is a rambler town, and the rambler is the single most common house in Salt Lake County to have a load-bearing wall right where the owner wants an opening.

Housing stock

Roughly 55% built 1940–1969 · single-level ramblers on large mature lots

Areas we work

Olympus Cove · Holladay Village · Cottonwood Country Club · Canyon Rim · Walker Lane · Knollwood · Crescent · Holladay Hills

What Holladay is built out of.

Most of Holladay went up between 1940 and 1969, and the single-level rambler is the signature — long, low, brick, sitting on a lot with fifty-year-old trees on it. The neighborhoods around Holladay Village, Walnut Lane, Knollwood, and Crescent were largely built out in that stretch, and Olympus Cove climbed the bench behind them.

The rambler's floor plan is the reason this town calls. A 1950s rambler almost always runs a bearing wall straight down the middle of the house, perpendicular to the joists, separating the kitchen from the living room — which is exactly the wall people want gone. That's not a wall a hauling crew should be taking out, and most of them know it and say so.

The other thing about Holladay is tenure. People bought these houses and stayed. That means original owners aging in place, adult children in another state, and eventually a house full of sixty years of one family that has to be dealt with on a listing timeline. It's the reason estate and probate work concentrates here.

What that means for the work.

Opening up a rambler
The kitchen-to-living-room wall in a Holladay rambler is usually bearing. Temporary shoring goes in, the wall comes out, a beam takes over. The drywall and studs leave on the same trip.
Full estate cleanouts
Long-tenure households on big lots: a finished basement, a two-car garage, a shed, and sixty years of accumulation between them.
Decks, sheds, and detached garages
Large mature lots here came with outbuildings. A lot of them are original and past saving.

Holladay

Where we’re working.

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