Site Clearance & Lot Clearing in LutzFrom Standing Structures to a Graded Pad
- Licensed C-11855 · CUC041521
- Family owned since 1978
- We own the transfer station
- Serving 4 Tampa Bay counties
Lutz, FL
Site Clearance & Lot Clearing in Lutz
Site clearance is everything between the lot you bought and the pad you can build on — and the fewer contractors that takes, the cheaper and faster it goes. Our yard is about 45 minutes away, and we are licensed C-11855 and CUC041521.
An old Lutz homestead off Van Dyke or the US 41 corridor is a multi-structure job: the house, the barn, a pole shed, an old mobile home, and the well and septic that served them all and now need proper abandonment. Long driveways mean the machines walk in without trouble, and we confirm whether the parcel sits in Hillsborough or Pasco before the permit goes anywhere.
Lutz demolition is acreage work: clearing an old homestead — house, barn, outbuildings, sometimes a mobile home or two — ahead of an estate build, and lakefront cottage teardowns where a 1950s fish camp becomes a primary residence. Long driveways and open sites make machine access easy.
A clearance job can be one shed and some brush, or a house, a pool, three outbuildings and forty years of accumulated concrete. Either way the deliverable is the same: a clear, graded site with the underground surprises found and dealt with, handed over ready for the surveyor and the builder.
The sequence matters. Structures come down first — with the asbestos survey and permits their age requires — then slabs, footers and buried debris come out, then septic tanks and wells are abandoned to code, and only then does fill and grading make sense. Doing it out of order buries problems that cost more to dig up later.
What it costs
What drives a Lutz quote
| Scope of job | What drives the number |
|---|---|
| Light clearance — outbuildings and brush | Structure count, vegetation density, and haul volume |
| House plus site to cleared lot | The house demolition itself plus what else is on the parcel |
| Full clearance to compacted pad | Fill quantity, compaction spec, and underground findings |
| Septic abandonment or well capping | Tank size, access, and the county’s abandonment requirements |
Every demolition is quoted on site, free. Access, structure and what has to be protected move the number more than square footage does, which is why we walk it rather than price it down the phone.
About 45 minutes, across the Courtney Campbell and north on Dale Mabry/US 41, or the tolled Veterans Expressway when time is tight. Multi-structure clears load trucks efficiently enough that the distance stays economical.
How it works
What a Lutz job looks like
Walk and scope
Every structure, slab, tank and tree on the parcel identified, with the permits and surveys each one needs.
Permits and disconnects
Demolition permits, tree permits where required, utility disconnects confirmed, and septic or well abandonment scheduled.
Structures down
Buildings, pools and outbuildings demolished and hauled in sorted loads to our yard.
Underground out
Slabs, footers, old services and buried debris removed under our underground utility license.
Fill and grade
Clean fill and crushed concrete base placed and compacted, leaving a pad ready for layout.
Questions
Lot Clearing in Lutz — FAQs
How much does lot clearing cost in Lutz?
It comes down to the structure and the access, not the ZIP code. On light clearance — outbuildings and brush, what moves the number is structure count, vegetation density, and haul volume. What moves it in Lutz is the number of outbuildings on the homestead, and how far the machines have to travel up the driveway. We walk the site and quote it, free.
What about things buried on the lot?
Old slabs, fill and debris turn up on long-held parcels. We probe where the history suggests it, and anything unexpected is priced at rates agreed up front rather than invented mid-job.
Where does the debris go?
Concrete and masonry go to our own C&D transfer station and come back as the base material under your new pad. Vegetation and mixed debris go out in sorted loads.
Can one contractor take the lot all the way to a buildable pad?
Yes — that is the point of this service. Demolition, underground removal, fill and compacted base all run under our two licenses and one contract.