House Demolition
We tear down houses, garages and outbuildings across Tampa Bay. The slab and footers come out and the debris leaves on our own dump trucks. The ground gets graded flat for whatever comes next.
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Demolition in Town 'n' Country means working in one of Tampa's first suburban communities. Before the 1950s, this ground was mostly natural areas and cattle farms. In 1958, LaMonte-Shimberg bought a 525-acre dairy farm from the Webb family near Hillsborough Avenue and Memorial Highway. The developer built nearly 8,000 single-family homes and townhouses here from 1958 to 1978. The build-out grew to more than 2,000 acres. It ran from Memorial Highway on the south to north of Waters Avenue. Every house from that build-out is now more than 45 years old. The community covers 24.1 square miles, and the 2020 census counted 85,951 people there.
Hurricane Helene pushed storm surge through these streets and into homes in September 2024. Law enforcement had to use boats to reach people that night. A county fire rescue spokesman listed Town 'n' Country among the hardest hit parts of the county. The next morning, Town 'n' Country Boulevard at Hillsborough Avenue was still closed by flood water. The county later made the area a priority for collecting construction and demolition debris. When repairs no longer make sense, house demolition after a flood clears the lot for a rebuild. Town 'n' Country sits just south of our Citrus Park base. Our excavators bring the house down, and the loads leave in our own dump trucks.
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Mail in ZIP code 33615 carries a Tampa address, but Town 'n' Country is not part of the city. Hillsborough County runs the permits here, and the City of Tampa only borders it to the south. To knock down a house, the owner applies for a county demolition permit through HillsGovHub. A flooded home also faces the county's substantial damage test. A house is substantially damaged when repair costs reach 50 percent of its market value before the damage. The county adds up improvement costs over a 12 month period. Its worksheet takes market value from the Property Appraiser's FEMA 50% Rule value, or a current certified appraisal. Our guide explains how the 50 percent rule works in more detail.
The county says a home past that line might need to be raised or rebuilt from the ground up. Its list of ways to comply is elevate, relocate, or demolish and rebuild. When an owner picks demolish and rebuild, we take the house down to bare ground. The roof and walls come down in sections with an excavator. Then concrete removal for the old slab and driveway opens the ground for new footings. Each load goes from the excavator bucket to one of our own dump trucks. The Town 'n' Country lot ends up clear for a new home built to current flood rules.
The county calls Town 'n' Country a low-lying area. It uses a network of about 20 miles of canals to move stormwater to the bay. Sweetwater Creek is maintained by the state, and Henry Canal by the county. Both run near one flood-prone part of Town 'n' Country. During one wet stretch, the county reported about 9 inches of rain in 72 hours on soaked ground. It said street water drops as the rain eases and the tide goes out. Hurricane Milton in October 2024 was a severe test for the canals. County crews ran walking excavators six days a week for most of 2025 to repair them.
A teardown beside these canals takes care. The county says some eroded banks need an engineer's redesign and a permit before repair. It also reports illicit discharge pipes from private property running into the canals. Debris in a canal or its right-of-way can delay county maintenance, too. So we keep machines and debris piles on the lot, away from the canal right-of-way. Then land grading on the cleared lot sets a steady fall away from the new pad. Where a low corner still holds water, a french drain can carry it to an outlet the county allows.
Communities & areas we serve around Town 'n' Country: Bay Crest Park, Countryway, Rocky Creek, Sweetwater Creek, Egypt Lake-Leto, Carrollwood, Oldsmar.
Town 'n' Country ZIP codes served: 33615.
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(813) 453-5883 We tear down houses, garages and outbuildings across Tampa Bay. The slab and footers come out and the debris leaves on our own dump trucks. The ground gets graded flat for whatever comes next.
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A house that needs to come down, a lot that needs clearing, a yard that holds water? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing, teardown through final grade. The estimate is free.
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