Junk Removal & Demolition in Kearns

In 1942 the Army took 5,450 acres of dry farmland here and built Kearns Army Air Base. By 1943 it held 40,000 troops and was, briefly, Utah's third largest city. The war ended, the base was declared surplus in 1947, and veterans' groups fought to keep the land in housing rather than let it revert to farm ground. The first residents moved into the new tract homes in 1949.

So Kearns is unusual: a town whose housing stock was effectively built in one push, for one kind of buyer, to a handful of plans. Small single-level homes, modest lots, and — this being Utah — a full basement under nearly all of them.

Seventy-five years on, that produces a very specific and very predictable stream of work. The original buyers, or their children, are now in their eighties. Houses are changing hands for the first or second time ever. And because the plans repeat across whole blocks, a bearing wall in one Kearns house is in the same place as the one next door, which makes these among the most straightforward structural jobs in the valley to scope.