Small demolition jobs in Bryan, torn down and hauled off

Bryan's brush and bulky service won't take leftover construction and demolition material from landscaping, remodeling, sidewalk or driveway projects. It also turns away concrete, brick and rock, along with household chemicals, food waste and garbage. Leaving chemicals at the curb can bring a citation.

The trash cart is out too. Bryan doesn't allow construction or demolition debris, dirt, sod or rock in the cart. So the boards from a deck, the posts from a fence and the slab under a shed have no city pickup route. You either haul it yourself or hire it out.

Bryan has a lot of older housing. Census estimates put the median year built at 1991, and 33% of the city's housing units went up before 1980. Lots that old have had time to collect things: a shed added in one decade, a deck in another, a chain-link run nobody has looked at in years.

Wood that's sat through enough Texas summers goes soft at the base. A playset outgrown ten years ago turns into a hazard. A hot tub that hasn't run in a while is just a heavy box on the patio.

Bryan created its Eastside Historic District in 1983 to preserve the character of many of its older homes. The Downtown Historic District followed in 1993.

The City of Bryan's historic design guidelines say a property owner must get a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Landmark Commission before the demolition or removal of a structure at a locally designated historic landmark or district. The same guidelines say one isn't required to demolish a non-historic building.

If your property is a local landmark or inside one of those districts, call the city's planning office before you book a tear-down. Sort out what needs approval first, then we'll schedule the work.

Some demo debris is harder than it looks. Old garden beds and retaining edges in Bryan yards are often built from railroad ties or landscape timbers, and those are heavy, awkward pieces to move.

Thinking of hauling shed scraps in a pickup? Tarp and tie the load down for the road, and check the Twin Oaks Landfill website for what it accepts and charges before you go.

On our end, dense material like a concrete pad, footings or brick is quoted separately by weight and handling. Wood and lighter debris is priced by the room it takes in the trailer. Here's how pricing works.

Send photos of the structure and what's around it, like fences, trees, a gate width or a slope. Small jobs can get a range from photos. Larger or heavier ones get a walkthrough. Either way, the price is set before we start and doesn't change unless the scope does.

If you'd rather do the tear-down yourself, our post on how to get rid of an old shed covers what's involved. If the job is just furniture coming out of the house, see furniture removal in Bryan. For the rest of what we do around town, visit our Bryan junk removal page.