City · Salt Lake County, UT
Junk Removal & Demolition in Holladay
Holladay is a rambler town, and the rambler is the single most common house in Salt Lake County to have a load-bearing wall right where the owner wants an opening.
Housing stock
Roughly 55% built 1940–1969 · single-level ramblers on large mature lots
Areas we work
Olympus Cove · Holladay Village · Cottonwood Country Club · Canyon Rim · Walker Lane · Knollwood · Crescent · Holladay Hills
What Holladay is built out of.
Most of Holladay went up between 1940 and 1969, and the single-level rambler is the signature — long, low, brick, sitting on a lot with fifty-year-old trees on it. The neighborhoods around Holladay Village, Walnut Lane, Knollwood, and Crescent were largely built out in that stretch, and Olympus Cove climbed the bench behind them.
The rambler's floor plan is the reason this town calls. A 1950s rambler almost always runs a bearing wall straight down the middle of the house, perpendicular to the joists, separating the kitchen from the living room — which is exactly the wall people want gone. That's not a wall a hauling crew should be taking out, and most of them know it and say so.
The other thing about Holladay is tenure. People bought these houses and stayed. That means original owners aging in place, adult children in another state, and eventually a house full of sixty years of one family that has to be dealt with on a listing timeline. It's the reason estate and probate work concentrates here.
What that means for the work.
- Opening up a rambler
- The kitchen-to-living-room wall in a Holladay rambler is usually bearing. Temporary shoring goes in, the wall comes out, a beam takes over. The drywall and studs leave on the same trip.
- Full estate cleanouts
- Long-tenure households on big lots: a finished basement, a two-car garage, a shed, and sixty years of accumulation between them.
- Decks, sheds, and detached garages
- Large mature lots here came with outbuildings. A lot of them are original and past saving.
In Holladay
All seven services.
- Junk Removal
$695 a full trailer, $395 a half. Garages, basements, single items. Demo is in house, so nothing gets left behind because it's attached.
- Downsizing Cleanouts
You take what you're keeping. We clear everything else and leave the house swept. Removal only — no moving service.
- Estate Cleanouts
A whole house, emptied and swept. Usually after a death or a move to care, and usually on somebody else's deadline.
- Estate Sales
A real estate sale, run at the property. Sorting, pricing, staging, marketing, and the sale itself — 40% of what sells.
- Probate Cleanouts
For the executor and the attorney. The house emptied on a court timeline, documented, and ready to list.
- Hoarding Cleanouts
Discreet, unhurried, no judgment. Most of the people who call about this are calling about someone they love.
- Demolition
Structural and load-bearing, interior and exterior. Licensed GC, so the demolition permit gets pulled — a hauling company legally can't.
Holladay
Where we’re working.
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