Storm Wreckage → Clean, Graded Ground
Storm took the garage and the shed add-on off a property in Charleston, Illinois, and dropped a tree onto the house. By the time we got the call the structures were already down — what was left was a yard full of broken building and a root ball nobody was going to move by hand.
Storm cleanup is a different animal from a planned teardown. On a normal demo we decide the sequence. On this one the weather already decided it, and what’s left is unstable in ways that aren’t obvious from the driveway — loaded framing, nails in everything, and a tree still holding tension where it landed. You work it apart deliberately or you get hurt.
The garage and shed add-on debris went out in a 30-yard box. The tree came off the house and the root ball came out with the excavator — a stump that size is machine work, not saw work. Debris ran about ten miles to disposal.
The concrete floor stayed. Same call as a lot of storm jobs: the slab was sound, nothing was going back on it that week, and taking it out would have added truck hours to a job the owner was already paying for once because of the weather.
Final pass to grade the spot so it sheds water and mows. A storm cleanup isn’t finished when the pile is gone — it’s finished when the ground looks like a yard again.
If a storm just went through your place, don’t climb into it to sort out what’s salvageable. Call and we’ll walk it with you. See storm & fire damage demolition for how these jobs are scoped, including the insurance side.
