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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Toppenish has the oldest housing of any town we serve. The median home here was built in 1966, and one home in five dates from before 1940. That means worn sheds, tired garages, settled yards and lots that were never graded to drain. On the north and east sides, much of the ground sits in a mapped flood zone. Water there goes where the grade sends it.
Bedrock Excavation and General Contracting serves Toppenish as part of its service area, about 17 road miles from Sunnyside. We take down old houses, barns and sheds, grade lots and driveways, and pull out worn orchards. Call or text (509) 439-2533, tell us about the lot, and we put the quote in writing after we look.
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.
Toppenish packs about 2,500 homes into 2.17 square miles, the smallest and densest town on our list. Seven homes in ten are single-family houses, and about one in fifteen is a mobile home. More than a third of them went up before 1960. Yards that old have settled and sheds have leaned. Old garages sit on slabs that were never meant to last this long.
Little new building happens inside the city. The Census building permit survey shows zero new housing units for Toppenish for 2025, and five for 2024. So the dirt work here is about what is already there. A collapsing garage comes down and leaves by trailer. A back lot gets cleared for a shop. A yard that drains toward the house gets regraded to carry water away from the foundation.
Access is the first thing we look at on a Toppenish lot. Older streets and narrow side yards decide which machine fits and how the debris gets out. A mini excavator and a dump trailer handle most of these jobs without touching the neighbor's fence.
Toppenish sits inside the Yakama Reservation, so three offices can come into play. Inside the city limits, the City of Toppenish issues building permits through its development services office. Unincorporated land outside the limits goes to Yakima County Building and Fire Safety. Tribal trust land answers to the Yakama Nation. Ask the city first which office covers your parcel, and we point you to it.
Clean air rules work the same way. The reservation sits outside the Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency's area. Demolition notices and burning questions here go to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Yakama Nation instead. The city can say which office takes the notice for your address.
Washington's dig law applies on every lot. A locate request goes to 811 two to 10 business days before any digging. The marks are only good for 45 days. Lines the owner put in, such as a yard hydrant line, are not marked by the utilities.
The ground under town is valley-floor loam. A soil survey sample puts Naches loam under about 44 percent of the city. Toppenish silt loam sits under about 22 percent more. Both dig easily and compact well, which makes a pad or a foundation cut straightforward once the topsoil is off. Low ground near the old channels holds water longer after irrigation season.
Flood zones matter here more than in most valley towns. About half of the sampled land sits in FEMA's zone AE, the 1 percent annual chance flood zone. All of it lies on the north and east sides of town. The south and west sides are not in FEMA's digital layer at all. The printed panel answers for those lots. A flood zone changes how a pad or a foundation is set, so check it before you plan a build.
The nearest weather station, at Wapato, records about 7.8 inches of precipitation a year and about 20 inches of snow. The last spring frost lands around April 21 and the first fall frost around October 15. July highs sit near 90, so summer dirt work means dust control. Spring and fall are the easy seasons for getting a lot ready for a foundation.
Toppenish is irrigated farm country. The Wapato Irrigation Project, run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, waters land across the reservation. Orchard blocks and hop yards sit right up to the edge of town. When an old block stops paying, or a field turns into a building site, the trees have to come out.
Pulling an orchard means the trees, the roots and the trellis posts, then piling the wood and leveling the rows. Burning rules on the reservation are not the county agency's, so ask before you plan a burn pile. Hauling the wood out is the other option. A cleared block can become pasture, a replant, or the pad for a new shop.
Communities and areas we serve around Toppenish: Division Street, Fort Road, Heritage University, Yakama Nation Cultural Center, Northern Pacific Railway Museum, American Hop Museum, South B Street, Toppenish National Wildlife Refuge, State Route 223, US 97, Toppenish High School, Wapato Irrigation Project.
Toppenish ZIP codes served: 98948.
Toppenish 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 Toppenish. 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.