Demolition in Ardmore runs from condemned houses in town to whole building sets out on ranchland. We work out of Ada, about 60 miles north. The run down is the Chickasaw Turnpike to Sulphur, then south into Carter County. Ardmore sits where I-35 crosses US-70. Moving a Cat D6 dozer and a 30,000-lb excavator that far costs real money. So the jobs that fit us best are full ones. Take the house, the barns, the old slab and the cellar in one move.
Most of what we take down out here sits on acreage. The farmhouse goes first, then the barns, the loafing sheds and the slabs poured around them. We pull the whole thing, footings and buried concrete included. The lot gets leveled behind us so a builder or a mower can use it. Debris burns on site where that is allowed, or it loads out and hauls off. Read how we take structures down, then call (580) 344-7473 to set up a look at the property.
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Inside the city limits, Ardmore wants a demolition permit before anything comes down. Community Development runs it from 15 First Avenue SE, along with building inspections and code enforcement. The fee splits by structure type. One and two family dwellings start at $100. Every other structure starts at $300, and that covers shops, barns, commercial buildings and outbuildings. Plenty of the city work is a single house on a small lot with utilities still live. That is a different day than a barn on forty acres. The same office keeps the city condemned properties list, and that list moves around. If a rental you own landed on it, start with a call to that office.
Outside the city limits the rules change, so call Carter County before you set a start date. A lot of teardowns here sit on open land where no city inspector is involved. Asbestos is the other checkpoint. Federal rules call for a real inspection of the building first. On commercial work the state gets notice before demolition. A single house coming down by itself is often handled differently. Anything built for the oil trade or the farm before the seventies is worth checking. We would rather learn that in week one than have a job stopped with the excavator already parked in the yard.
Carter County covers four kinds of country. The Arbuckle Mountains sit about ten miles north of town, and rock runs close to the surface on that edge. Further out it turns to red bed plains and Cross Timbers. Sandy ground in one spot, heavy red clay in the next. Clay holds water, so a site turns slick and rutted for days after a storm. Timing beats horsepower on those weeks. What sits under a building matters more than the building itself. Older farmhouses around Ardmore often stand on pier and beam with a hand dug cellar underneath. That hole has to come out and get backfilled, which is the excavation side of a teardown.
West of Ardmore the ground still carries the Healdton field. Oil came in there in July 1913, and the boom built the towns of Wilson and Healdton. It is still a producing field today. The houses and farm buildings that went up in those years are the ones now coming down. Out toward Lone Grove and the Lake Murray country, most calls are ranch calls. An owner wants the old place cleared before a new build goes up on the same rise. Our ongoing ranch job near Sulphur, 350 acres cleared so far, sits on the road between Ada and Ardmore. Look at the rest of the work we do around Ardmore.
More about the service itself is on our Demolition page, and everything we do around town is on the Ardmore service-area page.
Answers specific to demolition work around Ardmore. Something else on your mind? Call us.
Cedar taking the pasture, a pad to build, an old house to take down, or a pond you have been thinking about for years? Call or send the form. We come look at the property with you, and the estimate is free, from the owner who runs the machines.
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