Roughly 30 minutes east of Columbia on I-70 and Highway 54. Teardowns, mobile home removal and concrete work across Callaway County.
Fulton is the Callaway County seat, about 30 minutes east of our Columbia yard by way of I-70 and Highway 54. It is a college town with two campuses, Westminster and William Woods, a state hospital, and a big rural county around it that stretches from the river bottoms near Holts Summit up to the Callaway Energy Center and Kingdom City. We are in Fulton and the county regularly, and the mix of work there is about half in-town houses and half farm buildings.
Atlas Demolition & Site Work is a one-owner outfit. Chris Kurtz meets you on the property, writes the bid, and runs the machine. Licensed and insured with general liability, umbrella and workers' comp. Call (573) 234-6641 or get a written bid online and we will schedule the site visit.
In town, Fulton's older neighborhoods around the courthouse and the colleges have frame houses from the 1900s through the 1940s, many of them rentals that have reached the end of the line. Out in the county, the work shifts to barns, machine sheds, old farmhouses and the mobile homes that replaced them a few decades ago and are now themselves ready to go.
Farm sites usually take an extra half day for the concrete. A 40-by-60 machine shed with a 5-inch floor is about 90 tons of concrete on top of the steel and lumber. We sort the steel for scrap, which offsets some of the disposal line. See the demolition page for the full list.
Two things are specific to Fulton work. First, the rental houses near the colleges often have a second structure on the lot, a garage apartment or a shed, and it is cheaper to take both in one trip than to come back. Second, county farm sites almost always have a burn pile, an old well or a cistern somewhere near the house; we look for those on the site visit because they change how we backfill and grade.
Most of our concrete work in Fulton is residential and farm: driveways that have broken into plates, patios, old dairy-barn floors, feed-lot slabs and the foundations left behind after a fire. Driveway replacement is a removal plus a new pour by our concrete crew, under one contract and one warranty. General concrete removal covers slabs, walls and footings that just need to come out.
There is commercial work too. Churches, small strip retail along Business 54 and the fringe of the campus areas have parking lots that need to be broken out and redone, and asphalt replacement is on the menu when the owner wants blacktop instead of concrete. We do not do concrete leveling or patch repair.
Per-square-foot numbers are in the concrete removal cost guide; add a little for the haul to the recycler and they hold for Fulton.
Inside Fulton city limits, demolition permits come from the City of Fulton's building and community development office. Outside the city, Callaway County Planning and Zoning is the contact, and the rules are lighter than in town but not absent, especially anywhere near a floodplain or a county road.
What does not change with the county line is the Missouri Department of Natural Resources asbestos inspection. It is required before demolition of most structures anywhere in the state, and it applies to a 1970s mobile home just as much as an old farmhouse. If regulated material is found, a licensed abatement contractor removes it, DNR receives a 10-working-day notification, and then we mobilize. We coordinate the inspection, the abatement and the utility disconnects (electric, gas or propane, water, sewer or septic cap). We do not perform abatement ourselves.
Rural Callaway County adds one wrinkle: co-op electric and propane rather than city gas. The disconnect timelines are a little longer, so we start them the day the proposal is signed.
We bid a fixed price for mobilization, equipment and crew, and bill disposal as a pass-through at actual loads and tonnage, $40 to $90 per ton depending on the material and where it goes. Mobilization to Fulton is inside the fixed price. A Fulton job needs to be worth the drive, though: a full teardown or a mobile home removal easily is, and the unit cost is the same as it would be in Columbia. A one-hour patio removal on its own is not, and we would rather say so than quote it high. A site visit produces the firm number.
Timing in Fulton is driven by the paperwork, not the machine work. Two to four weeks from signed proposal to mobilization is typical; the demolition itself is usually one to three days.
From Fulton we cover Holts Summit, Kingdom City, Auxvasse and New Bloomfield, and the rural sections of Callaway County between them.
No travel fee. Mobilization to Fulton is part of the fixed price on the bid. The honest caveat is that a small job carries the same trip as a big one, so a half-day slab removal in Callaway County costs more per square foot than the same slab in Columbia. A full house teardown, a mobile home removal or a lot removal is not affected.
The City of Fulton's building and community development office inside city limits. Outside the city, Callaway County Planning and Zoning. In both cases, plan on documenting utility disconnects and, for most structures, a Missouri DNR asbestos inspection before the permit is issued. We coordinate all of that as part of the job.
Yes, and it is a large part of our Fulton work. We handle single-wides and double-wides, including the piers, skirting, decks and any slab or footings underneath. Asbestos inspection still applies to older units. Most single-wides are a one-day job and 15 to 25 tons of debris; double-wides run closer to two days.
That is the normal way we do it. The structure comes down, steel is sorted for scrap, lumber and roofing are hauled, and then the floor and footings come out with the breaker. We backfill the holes and rough grade so the site is ready for a builder. If you want the floor left in place for a new pole building, we can leave it and bid only the structure.
Three to five weeks before you want the crew on site. The asbestos inspection, any abatement, the DNR notification window and the utility disconnects are what take the time, not the demolition itself. Rural co-op electric and propane disconnects in Callaway County can add a week, so we start those the day the proposal is signed.
Tell us what you need torn out or put back. We'll walk the site and send a written bid.
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