When you’re trying to get rid of your mobile home, you have three options. You can pay someone to remove it from your property. You can donate it. Or you can demolish it and dispose of it in trailer dumpsters.
Demolishing it might sound like a good option (and, indeed, it might be a necessary option if it is in such disrepair that it can’t be donated and renovated), but the cost of mobile home demolition can get pretty steep. Any demolition project can be expensive, and when it comes to mobile homes, dumpsters are going to be a big part of the bill.
Dumpsters for Mobile Home Demolition
Some of the first things that you need to consider when demolishing your mobile home are the permits needed, which will range anywhere from $100 to $350. Then comes the cost of demolition, which averages about $3.50 to $5 per square foot. But then you’re going to need something to put all of that waste debris in, and that’s where rented manufactured home dumpsters come in.
Typically, for a standard single-wide mobile home, you’re going to need two dumpsters, size 40 yards. That’s a lot of waste. Renting the yard dumpster is expensive enough. The price to get this dumpster with a trailer to the dump bumps up your costs, and the price to dispose of the waste is yet another expense. An important question to answer is, how much does a single wide trailer weigh? Trailer manufacturers estimate that a regular single-wide mobile home will weigh about 12 tons, and you’re going to have to pay that disposal fee.
(It might be that the disposal fee is wrapped up in the cost of the demolition contractor’s total bill, but you’re still going to be paying for it.)
Mobile Home Donation
This is why it makes so much more sense to donate your mobile home. Donating your mobile home means the mobile home will be removed from your property at no cost to you–Banyan pays all of that–and the home will go off to be refurbished so that a new family can live in it, giving the mobile home new life. And, best of all, you get a tax break by donating your trailer to charity. It’s a win, win, win. Learn more about the differences between mobile home donation and demolition.