Excavation & Dirt Work
Digging, hauling, fill and backfill — dirt moved in, out and around your property by the man who quoted it.
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Residential demolition is the heart of what we do around Hot Springs, Hot Springs Village, Benton and the surrounding 50 miles. When a house is past saving, a garage is coming down for a new build, or an old barn has finally leaned its last, we bring it down under control, load it out, and haul it off — and the lot you get back is clean ground, not a rubble pile with a story. Scott Bankhead has been doing exactly this work around Hot Springs since 1994.
Everybody thinks demoing a house is easy work. Thirty years of it teaches you the opposite: the skill isn't making it fall, it's keeping the mess contained, protecting what stays — the trees you want, the neighbor's fence, the driveway you're keeping — and getting the debris gone fast. There's a method to the madness. After the teardown, the same operation handles the dirt work and grading, so you end at a usable lot, not a hole.
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First, Scott walks the property with you: what's coming down, what's staying, where the machines and trucks can work, and what has to happen with utilities before anything moves. That walk is where the real price comes from — a house teardown is mostly loading and hauling, and access decides how fast that goes. You get a straight number for the finished job, not a teaser for half of one.
On demo day the building comes down methodically — pulled apart in a controlled sequence, not flattened in a cloud of dust for the neighbors to enjoy. Debris gets sorted and loaded as it comes down, contract trucks cycle it off the property, and the pad gets cleaned up behind them. Most single houses are down and gone within days once the utilities are clear, not weeks.
Demolition around Hot Springs means hillside lots, lake places tucked down narrow drives, and older neighborhoods where the houses sit close enough to shake hands. Bringing a structure down clean when there's a house eight feet away, a retaining wall below you, or Lake Hamilton behind you is exactly the kind of work where 30 years matters. One of Scott's teardowns — a whole lake house on Lake Ouachita — got filmed by drone and it's a thing of beauty; you can watch it on our work page.
The machine does the heavy lifting, but the operator decides whether your property gets treated like a job site or a demolition derby. Scott runs the excavator himself on every teardown — the same hands that quoted it. That's why the fence line survives, the trees you flagged stay standing, and the only thing gone at the end is what you wanted gone.
Here's the track record behind the residential work: Scott has torn down a 200,000 square foot Hot Springs high school — the biggest in town — in five weeks, running the job with a couple of drivers and contract trucks. That's the scale end of the resume. Your garage, your fire-damaged rental, your grandmother's old place on the hill — those come down with the same planning and a lot less drama.
The reason this outfit focuses on residential now is simple and Scott will tell you straight: commercial pays slow and homeowners don't. What that means for you is a demo contractor with commercial-grade experience showing up for house-sized jobs — and once it's down, the grading, driveway or retaining wall that comes next is one phone call, not three more contractors.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Hot Springs & the surrounding 50 miles.
(501) 617-1511From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
Scott comes and sees the actual job — the structure, the ground, the access, what stays and what goes. Thirty years of demo means a fast, honest read on what the work really involves. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real timeline. It covers the teardown, the loading, the hauling and the cleanup — so the price you hear is the price for a finished job, not just the fun part.
Machines show up when we said they would. The structure comes down under control, trucks cycle the debris out, and the site stays contained — there's a method to the madness, and 30 years of it shows.
The job isn't done at the last bite of the excavator. Debris hauled off, ground graded out, and a lot you can actually use — ready to build on, park on, or just mow. Done means you'd never know the mess was there.
Common questions about residential demolition across Hot Springs & the surrounding 50 miles. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
Digging, hauling, fill and backfill — dirt moved in, out and around your property by the man who quoted it.
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Lots leveled, pads built, ground shaped to shed water — site prep that the next contractor thanks you for.
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Brush, undergrowth and problem trees cleared off, hauled off, and the lot left ready for the pad, the driveway or the for-sale sign.
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New gravel drives cut and built, tired ones regraded and topped, parking pads that hold — shaped so the rain runs off instead of through.
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Large-block retaining walls that hold Hot Springs hillsides — flat ground carved out of slopes, drives protected, done by the specialty guy.
View DetailsScott has run demolition around Hot Springs since 1994 — up to a 200,000 sq ft high school in five weeks. Everybody thinks demo is easy work; thirty years is why it looks that way.
No rotating crew, no telephone game. The man who walks your property and quotes the job is the man in the excavator doing it — and contract trucks keep the debris moving out.
Free estimates from looking at the actual job. The number covers the finished state — teardown, loading, hauling, cleanup — not just the part before the mess.
Hillsides, lake lots, tight in-town streets — Hot Springs ground is its own animal. Local since 1994, from the lakes to the county lines, and the work respects the terrain.
A house that needs to come down, a lot that needs clearing, a slope that needs a wall? Call or send the form and Scott will look at the job with you and give you a free, straight number — teardown through cleanup, one outfit.
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