Vince Scuncio · Owner
Twenty-seven years of putting houses together.
Which turns out to be the right background for taking one apart.
Who runs it
Vince Scuncio has been in the trades 27 years — a framer by trade and a licensed Utah general contractor, #14181665-5501. Framing is the specific part that matters on a demolition job: it’s the trade that assembles the joists, bearing walls, headers and posts holding a house up, so it’s the trade that can read a load path from the basement before anything gets cut.
Background
Eleven years in the United States Navy, and a service-connected disabled veteran. Out of the service he went into real estate, flipping houses, and then into contracting — which is where the 27 years come from.
The track record
Black Diamond is two years old. The work isn’t. Before Utah, Vince ran a contracting operation in Fallbrook, California — and tearing down sheds and hauling the debris off was part of the job then exactly as it is now. These are his before-and-afters from that business, kept the way he shot them in 2020.
Why this business
Black Diamond is a junk removal and estate services business — removal, cleanouts, and estate sales are the work Vince is building it around, because that’s the part of the trade he wants to be in. Demolition and hauling were always part of the construction work anyway; every renovation starts by taking something out, and somebody has to move it. He moved to Utah and started the company in 2024, named for what a black diamond means in a skiing state — and the GC licence stayed, which is why the structural demo other haulers decline stays on the list.
What you can check
Utah general contractor licence #14181665-5501. A state contractor licence, not a business registration, and it’s verifiable at Utah DOPL. A junk removal company doesn’t hold one.
Demolition permits pulled in house. Salt Lake requires a permit for structural demolition and only a licensed contractor can pull one. That’s the practical consequence of the licence: a hauler either turns the job down or does it unpermitted, and unpermitted structural work surfaces later — at an appraisal, an inspection, or a sale.
$2M aggregate / $1M per occurrence general liability, plus a $55,000 bond. If you’re an executor, a property manager, or an agent who needs a certificate for a file before work can be scheduled, those are the numbers.
Rated 5 from 11 Google reviews. Eleven reviews, on a verified profile, and few enough that you can read every one of them.
Not asbestos, and not certified for it. On a pre-1980 house that gets tested before anybody opens a wall. If it’s clean the job goes ahead; if it isn’t, it waits for a certified abatement crew.
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