Demolition
Houses, garages, barns, sheds and commercial buildings taken down with excavators across Fairfield County. The debris is hauled away, the hole is filled and the lot is left flat.
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Half the houses in Stamford were built in 1962 or earlier. The median residential lot is about a sixth of an acre. That mix makes for two different demolition jobs in the same city. On the smaller lots in the South End, Glenbrook and Belltown, it is a house, a detached garage or a slab. Neighbors sit close on both sides. The city also has one family districts where the minimum lot runs from one acre up to three. Those jobs come with trees, ledge and a driveway to cut in.
All Star Wrecking is a demolition, excavation and land clearing contractor based in Monroe. We come down Route 25 and head west on the Merritt Parkway, about thirty miles to Stamford. Demolition is the main work: houses, garages, barns, sheds, commercial buildings and concrete. A house demolition ends with the foundation out, the cellar hole filled and the lot left flat. Excavation, site work and land clearing follow on the same ground. Stamford is one of the towns we cover across Fairfield County. Call (412) 944-9931 for a free estimate.
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State assessor records list about 35,600 residential properties in Stamford, and the median one was built in 1962. Most sit on lots under a quarter acre. When a house that size no longer fits, it comes down. A new one goes up on the same ground.
The city keeps building. State records show more than 1,500 new housing units authorized in Stamford in 2025. New work on an old lot usually starts with something coming off it first. That is a house, a detached garage, a shed, a slab or an older commercial building.
Concrete is its own job here. Driveways, walkways, patios, footings and old fieldstone foundations get broken out and hauled off, which is where concrete removal starts. Broken concrete, brick and asphalt pieces count as clean fill under state rules, so they can go to a recycler. Stumps do not, and go to a permitted facility instead.
The demolition permit comes from the city Building Department, and the Chief Building Official handles the notices. The application asks for the age of the building and how you know it, plus photos and the assessor's property ID. Stamford also wants a certificate that the building is clear of rodents and insects. We tell you what the city will want and line the job up around it.
Any building more than fifty years old gets a legal notice published in a local paper. That notice goes out within seven days of the application. The same applies inside a historic district or to a designated historic property. If the age is unknown or in dispute, the city treats the building as at least fifty years old.
If a written objection is filed within twenty days of that notice, the permit is held. The hold runs one hundred eighty days from the date of the application. Connecticut law lets a town hold a demolition permit that long, and Stamford uses the full period. Owners nearby also get written notice by certified mail before the date, and larger structures get a sign posted on the property.
The ground across this part of Fairfield County is glacial till over schist and gneiss. That means boulders, old stone walls and ledge. On the shallow soils that run through these hills, bedrock can sit ten to twenty inches down. High Ridge, Long Ridge and Hunting Ridge are named for the ground under them.
Some of that till is dense hardpan, twenty to forty inches down, and water sits on top of it. A cellar hole that looks dry in August can be wet in April. Footings in Connecticut have to get below forty two inches for frost, so the dig goes through all of it. We plan for ledge at the estimate, before a price is set.
Stamford's Environmental Protection Board is the city's inland wetlands agency, and it is the flood and erosion control board as well. Its rules make clearing, grubbing, grading and excavating a regulated activity within fifty feet of a wetland or watercourse. Inside the public water supply watershed by the reservoirs, that widens to seventy five or one hundred feet. Land clearing near the Rippowam River or a brook that only runs part of the year starts with that step.
Stamford also has districts where the minimum lot is five thousand square feet, and a building there can sit close to the sidewalk. The state demolition code has rules for close quarters. It calls for a fence at least eight feet high along the street line. A covered walkway goes up where the building stands close to the street or reaches twelve feet or more.
Near Long Island Sound, on the streets between I-95 and the water, the state's coastal boundary comes into it. Some applications inside that boundary need a coastal site plan review from the city. Most single family house work is exempt, unless it sits right by tidal wetlands, a bluff or a beach. Shippan Point, Dolphin Cove, Westcott and the South End are where that question comes up.
Utilities run under those streets, so a Call Before You Dig request goes in first, at least two full working days ahead. Private lines on your own property do not get marked, so we ask what is buried out there. The debris leaves as the job goes, and the cellar hole is filled to grade. Stamford sits at the far west end of the county, close to the New York line, and our work stays in Connecticut.
Communities and areas we serve around Stamford: South End, Shippan Point, Glenbrook, Springdale, Belltown, Newfield, Ridgeway, Turn of River, Palmers Hill, High Ridge, Long Ridge, North Stamford.
Stamford ZIP codes served: 06901, 06902, 06903, 06905, 06906, 06907.
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(412) 944-9931 Houses, garages, barns, sheds and commercial buildings taken down with excavators across Fairfield County. The debris is hauled away, the hole is filled and the lot is left flat.
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We take down whole houses across Monroe and the rest of Fairfield County, foundation and all. The debris is hauled away, the cellar hole is filled and the lot is left flat.
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We take down detached garages, barns, sheds and other outbuildings across Fairfield County. The debris is hauled away and the ground is left graded flat.
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Commercial buildings and structures taken down with excavators, and the debris sorted and hauled away. We also take out part of a building ahead of a renovation.
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We break out concrete slabs, foundations, footings, driveways and patios with excavators. The broken concrete is hauled away and the ground is left graded flat.
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All Star Wrecking digs and backfills foundation holes for new houses and additions, cuts trenches and digs ponds. We are based in Monroe and dig across Fairfield County.
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We do the site work for a new home in Monroe and across Fairfield County. The lot gets cleared, the driveway cut in, the foundation dug and the yard graded.
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We dig, bed and backfill the trenches for water, sewer, electric, gas and conduit lines. The licensed trades and the utility make the connections, and we put the ground back.
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We cut new gravel driveways in through wooded and sloped lots, then build the base and crown the surface. Rutted and washed out driveways are rebuilt from the ground up.
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We backfill, rough grade and finish grade with excavators, then spread topsoil and put grass seed down. Yards are regraded so water runs away from the house instead of sitting against it.
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We clear whole lots and single sections with excavators, from the trees down to the stumps. The wood and brush are hauled off and the ground is left ready for the next step.
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Overgrown brush, briars, vines and saplings pulled out with an excavator. Fallen dead wood cleared, trails cut and views reopened across Fairfield County.
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We dig stumps out of the ground whole, roots and all, with an excavator. The stumps are hauled off and the hole is filled and graded.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Stamford. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Tell us what has to come down, get dug or get cleared, and how you want the lot left. Call (412) 944-9931 or send the form and we will set up a look at the site.
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