Shed Removal & Demolition in York County, PA

Wood sheds are the most common thing we take down, and the most unpredictable. A solid one comes apart in big sections. A rotted one is a different animal: soft floor joists, roof sheathing that crumbles when you touch it, and framing held together mostly by habit. Either way, the whole thing goes on the truck, shingles and all.

Metal sheds are lighter but meaner. Old kit sheds rust out along the bottom, the panels buckle when the wind gets under them, and the cut edges will open up a hand in a hurry. We take them down carefully and haul off the panels, the frame, and the bag of loose screws. If a storm already folded yours into a heap, that's fine. Less for us to take apart.

Vinyl and resin sheds are quick to take apart and awkward to load, because big plastic panels don't stack flat. They still go out in the same visit as everything else.

Material matters on the disposal end too. At York County's Small Load Drop-Off, metal items are sent to a local scrap yard, while metal siding is on the list of things not accepted with construction debris. A metal shed and a wood shed simply don't end up in the same place.^[1][2]

A wood floor comes out with the rest of the structure. A rotted floor is one of the most common reasons people call us in the first place, usually right after somebody's foot goes through it.

A concrete pad is your call. We can break it up and haul it off for an additional cost, or leave it right where it is if you want it for a new shed, a patio table, or a spot to park the mower. Tell us which way you want to go when you send photos, so the price covers it.

What we don't do is pour new concrete or fill in slab footings. If you're putting a new shed on the same spot and need a fresh base, that's work for a concrete contractor once we're done.

If you were thinking about breaking up the slab and hauling it yourself, know that York County's Small Load Drop-Off does not take concrete, brick, stone, soil, or gravel.^[2]

You don't have to clean out the shed before we come. The contents come out as part of the same job: the push mower that quit three summers ago, the bikes with flat tires, the stack of clay pots, the coffee cans full of mystery bolts. One price, one visit.

If you'd rather pull out what you want to keep first, go ahead. Anything you set aside stays put, and anything still usable that you're done with can go to a donation drop-off instead of the trash.

The one thing to sort ahead of time is the hazardous stuff, because we can't take it, and sheds collect it: half-empty paint cans, weed killer, pool chemicals, gas cans, and the propane tank off the old grill. Drain gas and oil out of mowers and trimmers if you can, too. In Lancaster County, for example, LCSWMA accepts lawn mowers only with the gas and oil removed.^[3]

York County holds free household hazardous waste collection events every spring and fall, and registration is required. Those events take flammables, garden chemicals, and pool chemicals, along with propane tanks larger or smaller than 20 lbs, but not the standard 20-lb grill tank and not latex paint.^[4][5]

For latex paint, the county's advice is to donate it if it's still usable, or dry it out with kitty litter or shredded paper, close the lid tight, bag it, and put it in the regular trash. Lancaster County residents can bring household hazardous waste to LCSWMA's facility for free.^[5][6]

Our pricing is based on how much space the job takes up in the truck, and a shed is the shed plus whatever is inside it. Here's what moves the number:

If you're weighing a do-it-yourself teardown, here's the part nobody thinks about until the shed is in pieces on the lawn: your regular trash pickup won't take it. The hauler serving York Township, for one, says plainly that no construction debris is collected curbside.^[7]

York County residents can bring construction debris to the Small Load Drop-Off at the Resource Recovery Center in Manchester Township, with limits. Lumber, pressure-treated included, has to be 6 feet or less, and so does siding. Shingles are capped at one pickup truck or small trailer load per trip. A per-ton fee applies to waste loads.^[2][8][9]

Asbestos material isn't accepted there at all; the county points it to landfills that take it. Some older sheds have that kind of siding or shingle, and we don't handle it either. It needs a specialist.^[2]

Over in Lancaster County, LCSWMA's Lancaster waste-to-energy facility accepts residential construction debris only in pickup-truck loads or smaller, and every open load has to be tarped and secured.^[3][10]

Add it up and one shed can mean a weekend of cutting boards to length and several trips to the scale house. That's usually the point where people decide to have somebody else do it once.