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Demolition in Hillsborough County has a clock on it before it has a machine on it, and the clock belongs to the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County. The EPC holds delegated air and asbestos authority, one of only eight of Florida’s 67 counties that regulate their own air program rather than leaving it to the state. For a regulated demolition or renovation project, the EPC requires notification at least 10 working days before the scheduled start date, with a copy of the asbestos survey attached for staff review, and its published fee schedule for those notifications runs from $310 to $360 depending on the category. Ten working days is a fortnight in practice. That is the single most common reason a Brandon demolition date slips, and it is entirely avoidable if the survey happens early. Confirm current requirements with the EPC before you commit to a date.

The county permit sits on top of that, and it wants proof you have dealt with the EPC. Hillsborough County Development Services runs building permits and code for every unincorporated address in the county, and the commercial demolition permit application lists the EPC asbestos form among its intake documents. So the order is survey, then EPC notification, then county permit, then equipment. Residential and commercial submissions differ, so ask Development Services which checklist applies to your structure rather than assuming. And note who you are dealing with: there is no City of Brandon building department, because there is no City of Brandon. Hillsborough has exactly three incorporated cities — Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City — and the county’s own right-of-way page confirms it, noting permits “are not issued for projects in Tampa, Plant City, or Temple Terrace municipalities.”

Before anything breaks the ground, there is Sunshine 811. Florida’s notification center is Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, established under § 556.103, Fla. Stat., and operating under Chapter 556, the Underground Facility Damage Prevention and Safety Act. The notice period is set by § 556.105(1)(a) at not less than 2 full business days before beginning any excavation or demolition. Two, not three. Several other states use a three-day standard and crews carry the habit over the state line, which is how a job ends up waiting a day it did not need to wait or, worse, starting a day early. Call 811 or (800) 432-4770, or file online with Sunshine 811. The statutory definition of excavation is broad and includes work intended to change the grade or level of land, so a graded staging pad is worth a ticket.

Most Brandon demolition is small demolition, and it has a recognizable shape. A detached shed. A carport. A screen enclosure or pool cage that has been through one storm too many. A garage conversion being taken back out. An interior tear-out of a 1970s house down to the studs before it is rebuilt. These are slab structures, so there is no foundation to fill and no basement to collapse, but there is nearly always a slab, and the slab is the part that changes your container plan. Framing, roof panel, siding, screen and drywall are light and bulky. Slab, block, mortar and pavers are dense. Those two loads should not travel together. Hillsborough charges a surcharge of twice the posted rate on mixed loads, and it charges by the ton, so combining them is the most expensive way to run a small demolition.

The reason the county cares so much about what is in the load comes back to how Hillsborough disposes of it. The county-owned Resource Recovery Facility at 350 N Falkenburg Road burns about 1,800 tons a day, generates around 47 megawatts and diverts roughly 80 percent of material from landfill, and the county lists it as accepting burnable waste only. That is why the rate sheet distinguishes processable from non-processable material, and it is a genuinely different disposal logic from a market that buries everything. Clean wood, drywall and packaging go one way. Concrete, block and dirt go another. Asbestos never goes in a roll-off at all; that is a licensed abatement job with its own waste stream, regulated statewide under Chapter 62-257, F.A.C., with contractor licensing under § 469.004, Fla. Stat., and notification here through the EPC. Ask us at booking and we will bring the right pair of boxes.

Demolition Jobs We Supply Containers For

Containers For A Demolition Job

Plan demolition containers in pairs rather than in sizes. The light box takes framing, roof panel, siding, screen, drywall and packaging, and that is a 30 yard for most small structures or a 40 yard where a screen enclosure or a large carport is involved, because that material is almost pure volume. The heavy box takes slab, block, mortar and pavers, and that is a 10 yard loaded flat and low every time. Keeping them apart is not tidiness. Hillsborough burns most of its garbage, prices processable and non-processable material differently and charges twice the posted rate on a mixed load, so one combined container is reliably the most expensive way to do it. A 20 yard covers a bounded interior tear-out on its own. Tell us what is coming down and roughly how much slab is involved and we will bring the right combination. Dimensions sit on the container sizes page.

Lead Times, Locates And Setting The Boxes

Three things need to happen before a machine starts. The asbestos survey, then the EPC notification at least 10 working days ahead with the survey attached, then the county permit, which for a commercial demolition expects the EPC form as an intake document. Alongside that, a Sunshine 811 locate request, not less than 2 full business days before you break ground under § 556.105(1)(a), Fla. Stat. Then the containers. We want about 60 feet of straight run, roughly ten and a half feet of working width and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist, and we set both boxes where the machine can reach them without tracking across a soft area. That last point matters here: Myakka fine sand is very poorly to poorly drained with a water table under 18 inches for one to four months in most years, so unpaved ground in the wet season will not carry a loaded container or a tracked machine. Plywood under the wheels and rails, hard standing where we can get it, and a tarp on the light box because rain in an open container is weight you pay to haul.