Demolition
We take down houses, barns, garages, sheds and shops, and we tear out old concrete slabs. The debris leaves the property with us.
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Benton City has the fastest-rising building permit count of the towns we serve. The city's 2025 permit count was 79 new housing units, up from 19 two years earlier. Almost one home in six here was built in 2020 or later. New lots under Red Mountain need pads cut, driveways graded and ground stripped before a foundation goes in. Older places along the river and in Kiona carry the other kind of work. A tired outbuilding or an old slab has to come out before anything new goes up.
Bedrock Excavation and General Contracting serves Benton City as part of its service area. The town sits about 32 road miles east of Sunnyside on Interstate 82. We cut and compact pads for shops and houses, grade driveways, prepare sites for foundations and take down old structures. Call or text (509) 439-2533 and we put the quote in writing after we look at the lot.
Tell us about the teardown, dirt work, pad or building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Red Mountain rises right above town. Its federal wine-grape area covers about 3,400 acres of slope inside the larger Yakima Valley wine region. State Route 224 runs along its foot toward West Richland. Acreage homes and new subdivisions have followed the vineyards. Of those 79 units, 47 were single-family houses, and the 2024 count was 49.
The housing here is newer than anywhere else on our list. The median home was built in 1998. Six in ten homes are single-family houses, and about one in eight is a mobile home. Nearly three quarters of the homes are owner-occupied. A new lot on the slope usually needs a house pad cut into the hill. The driveway gets graded off State Route 225 or a county road. The topsoil comes off before the foundation crew arrives.
Slope changes the job. A pad on a hillside takes more cut on the uphill side and compacted fill on the downhill side. The driveway has to hold its grade through a wet spring. We stake the pad, cut it and compact it. The driveway is graded to shed water before the first truck of lumber shows up.
A soil survey sample puts Warden silt loam under about 43 percent of the city. Quincy loamy sand covers about 24 percent, with Hezel, Pasco and Burbank soils in smaller shares. Warden silt loam digs easily and compacts well. Quincy loamy sand drains fast and shifts under a loader. A pad on sand wants a well-compacted gravel base before anything sits on it.
The river bottoms are the wet ground. The Yakima River runs through town and the Kiona Canal crosses the city. Lots near either one hold water longer after irrigation season. Those are the lots where the cut, the fill and the drainage plan get the closest look. Larger jobs, such as stripping and leveling a whole building site, fall under our cut and fill work.
No weather station sits in town. Benton City lies between the Richland and Prosser stations, which record about 7.3 and 8.7 inches of precipitation a year. The last spring frost lands in early to mid April and the first fall frost in late October. Summers are hot and dry, so dust control is part of every summer job.
Inside the city limits, the City of Benton City handles building permits through its building permit office at City Hall. Red Mountain, Kiona and the river bottoms outside the limits go to Benton County's Building Division. The shop or house on a pad needs its permit from one of those two offices. The pad is part of its plans. We point you to the right office.
Demolition questions go to the Benton Clean Air Agency, which covers Benton County. The asbestos survey and the demolition notice run through that agency before an old house or barn comes down. Outdoor burning, including orchard wood, is the same agency's call.
Flood maps are the one thing you cannot read online here. FEMA's digital flood layer has no data for Benton City. A lot's flood zone comes from the paper flood map at FEMA's Map Service Center. Lots along the river and the canal are the ones to check first. And on every lot, a locate request goes to 811 two to 10 business days before digging.
Benton City counted 3,479 people in the 2020 Census and about 4,000 in the 2025 estimate. That is a rise of 13 to 16 percent in five years. The Port of Benton holds downtown sites, and the permit count has climbed three years running. More new lots means more pads, more driveways and more foundations waiting on dirt work.
The order of a new build does not change. Strip the topsoil, cut and fill to grade, and compact the pad. Dig for the foundation, backfill after the walls are in, then finish the grade and the driveway. Benton City is part of our service area. The quote for any of those steps is written after we look at the lot.
Communities and areas we serve around Benton City: Red Mountain, State Route 224, State Route 225, Demoss Road, Kiona, Yakima River, Kiona Canal, 9th Street, 1st Street, Babs Avenue, Rattlesnake Mountain Shooting Facility, Horse Heaven Cemetery.
Benton City ZIP codes served: 99320.
Benton City is part of our service area. We look at the job first, then put the quote in writing.
(509) 439-2533 We take down houses, barns, garages, sheds and shops, and we tear out old concrete slabs. The debris leaves the property with us.
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We cut and fill large sites and move dirt in bulk for shops and commercial buildings. Extra dirt leaves by the load, and we haul in fill or gravel when a site runs short.
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We clear and strip the lot, then rough grade it and dig for the foundation. After the foundation is poured, we backfill around it.
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We regrade worn gravel driveways and build new ones. We also grade yards and lots so water moves away from the house.
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We cut and level building pads for shops, garages, houses and campers, with a compacted gravel base. When you want a concrete slab, we pour that too.
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We pull old orchards out of the ground, stumps and roots included. The wood gets piled or hauled away, and the ground is left clear for what comes next.
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We build shops, carports and other outbuildings, plus fences, gates, decks and pergolas. The same company that prepares the ground puts up the structure.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Benton City. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about the job and where it is, and we will set a time to look at it. Call or text (509) 439-2533 or use the form, and the quote comes to you in writing.
Tell us about the teardown, dirt work, pad or building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.