Mobile home demolition and removal

Single-wide or double-wide

Single-wides come as one box on one steel chassis. A double-wide is two boxes set side by side and joined down the middle at the marriage line, each on its own chassis. The price is the same for both, because the work is the same kind of work.

We start by pulling the skirting, the steps and any carport or porch attached to the home. Then the excavator takes the roof and walls down onto the floor. Most manufactured homes are light wood framing with metal or vinyl siding, so this part goes quickly and loads straight into the dump truck. What's left is the steel frame. We cut it into lengths a truck can carry, along with the axles and the hitch when they're still under the home, and it all goes to scrap. The tie-downs come out of the ground last.

The title has to be surrendered

Florida titles a mobile home like a vehicle, and the title doesn't disappear when the home does. Under Florida Statute 319.30, when a mobile home is dismantled or destroyed, the owner listed on the last title has to turn it in to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) so it can be canceled. Knowingly skipping that step is a second-degree misdemeanor.

Homes that were declared real property and tied to the land go through a title retirement instead, with form HSMV 82109. The paperwork runs through your county Tax Collector's office, and each county handles the counter steps its own way, so we check yours before we start.

Asbestos and the utilities

A single mobile home on its own lot usually falls outside the federal asbestos rule, but clearing several homes for the same owner on the same site does not, so we schedule the survey with a licensed asbestos consultant whenever the job calls for it. Our guide to the asbestos exemption for single homes explains where that line falls.

Power comes off first, with FPL pulling the meter. Water and sewer get capped by a licensed plumber, or the septic tank is abandoned under its own permit. Any A/C unit has its refrigerant recovered before it goes to scrap.

A clean pad when we're done

Once the home is gone you're left with the pad. We pull the concrete blocks and piers it sat on, rake out the nails and siding scraps, and rough-grade the ground so a new home can be set or the lot sold as is. A concrete slab or driveway under the home is a separate job, priced as slab and driveway removal at $4 per sq ft. All of it is hauled off the same way our construction debris hauling works.

South Miami-Dade, where most of these jobs are

Homestead, Florida City and the Redland are where mobile home teardowns cluster in Miami-Dade. Lots out there are bigger and the roads are open, so the excavator and the trucks get in without trouble. Older homes on family land get replaced with a newer unit or a block house. We work the rest of Miami-Dade and Broward too, parks included.

Price per home

Labor, equipment and haul-off included, in US dollars, October 2026.

That price covers the tear-down, the frame and debris hauled, and the pad cleaned. The permit fee and an asbestos survey, when one is needed, go on top; the full price list has every line.

Frequently asked questions