City · Salt Lake County, UT
Junk Removal & Demolition in Sandy
Sandy is the split-level capital of the valley, and the split-level is aging into exactly the kind of work this company does.
Housing stock
Mostly 1970s–1980s split-levels and ramblers · Hidden Valley late 1970s–early 1980s
Areas we work
Historic Sandy · Hidden Valley · Dimple Dell · Alta Canyon · Willow Creek · Granite
What Sandy is built out of.
Sandy filled in through the 1970s and 1980s as a collection of pocket subdivisions, and the split-level and the brick rambler are what got built. Hidden Valley went up in the late 1970s and early 1980s on wide cul-de-sac streets with larger lots, and it has aged into one of the more established addresses in the city. Historic Sandy, the original town core, is older and much smaller.
A split-level is a specific demolition problem. The half-flights mean the structure is stepped, the wall between the entry and the living room is frequently bearing, and the lower-level family room usually has a beam somewhere in it that somebody boxed in with paneling in 1984. Opening these up is one of the more common remodels in the valley and one of the more commonly botched.
The first owners bought at forty and are seventy-five now. Sandy is moving from a volume junk-removal market into an estate and downsizing market, and it's doing it fast.
What that means for the work.
- Split-level wall removal
- Stepped framing and a bearing wall where you least want it. The most common demo call from this part of the valley.
- Lower-level and basement demo
- 1980s paneling, drop ceilings, wet bars, and boxed-in beams, back to a workable shell.
- Downsizing and estate work
- Original owners moving on from houses they bought new in 1979.
In Sandy
All seven services.
- Junk Removal
$695 a full trailer, $395 a half. Garages, basements, single items. Demo is in house, so nothing gets left behind because it's attached.
- Downsizing Cleanouts
You take what you're keeping. We clear everything else and leave the house swept. Removal only — no moving service.
- Estate Cleanouts
A whole house, emptied and swept. Usually after a death or a move to care, and usually on somebody else's deadline.
- Estate Sales
A real estate sale, run at the property. Sorting, pricing, staging, marketing, and the sale itself — 40% of what sells.
- Probate Cleanouts
For the executor and the attorney. The house emptied on a court timeline, documented, and ready to list.
- Hoarding Cleanouts
Discreet, unhurried, no judgment. Most of the people who call about this are calling about someone they love.
- Demolition
Structural and load-bearing, interior and exterior. Licensed GC, so the demolition permit gets pulled — a hauling company legally can't.
Sandy
Where we’re working.
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