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Playset & Swing Set Removal in Connecticut

Playsets, swing sets, and trampolines — disassembled, anchors pulled, hauled in 1-2 hours. From $200, disposal included.

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  • 16,000+

    jobs completed

  • 4.99 ★

    463 reviews

  • Family-owned

    since 2014 (12 years)

  • Licensed & insured

    in Connecticut & New York

dumpster-truck-jobsite in Stamford, CT by Grizzly Junk Pros

The kids are in high school and the swing set is still standing guard over an empty yard — every parent knows the exact year it stopped being equipment and started being scenery. We remove playsets, swing sets, and trampolines across Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford, Litchfield, and Middlesex counties, the lower New London shoreline, and the Westchester border towns, starting at $200, with the price fixed before we book — often straight from your photos, since jobs this size rarely need a formal walkthrough.

It's the quickest work on our demolition menu: 1-2 hours, 2-person crew, anchors and all, and the lawn starts recovering by the weekend.

The 1-2 hour job, and why it's worth not doing yourself

Could you take down a swing set yourself? Sure — it's a Saturday, a socket set, a reciprocating saw for the rusted third of the bolts, and then the real problem: a quarter ton of awkward lumber and steel with nowhere to go. The set comes apart in an afternoon; the pile sits by the garage for a month. That second half is the actual product here.

Our crew does the disassembly in an hour or two because they've done the same three playset brands a hundred times, and the truck is already parked on the curb when the last post comes out. Disassembly, anchor extraction, load-out, disposal — one visit, one fixed price, no pile. Because these jobs are short, we often route them alongside other stops in your area, which is part of why the tier stays the cheapest on the demolition menu.

Anchors out — the detail that separates removal from abandonment

Every playset is attached to the planet somehow: augered ground anchors on metal sets, rebar stakes on trampolines, small concrete pours at the corner posts of the serious wooden forts. Pulling the visible structure and leaving the anchors is the classic shortcut, and the lawn keeps the evidence — a steel spiral two inches under the grass, exactly mower-blade deep.

We pull them. Augers get backed out, stakes get levered, small pours get dug and lifted, and the holes get tamped roughly level. In-ground trampolines — the sunken kind — are the exception that needs a real conversation, since there's a retaining wall and a drainage pit involved; those price above the floor and we'll walk it first.

Trampolines: a note from experience

Trampoline disassembly rewards respect. The springs hold serious stored tension, the net poles hide their set screws, and a 14-foot galvanized frame does not fit in any vehicle you own once it's only half apart. Our order of operations — springs released in a star pattern, mat rolled, poles down, frame unbolted or cut into sections — turns it into a tidy 45 minutes, and nearly all of it leaves as scrap steel rather than landfill, which is the best disposal story of anything on this page.

If yours is the in-ground style, or the frame has fused into one rusted ring, say so when you call — both are solvable, both just belong in the quote rather than as a surprise.

Playset removal — starting price

Every demo job is different — final quote confirmed on site after walkthrough. These are honest starting ranges so you can self-qualify before calling. Disposal of all materials is included in the total.

  • Playsets, swing sets, trampolines$200+

    Wood or metal playsets, swing sets, trampoline frames. Disassembled and hauled.

    1-2 hours, 2-person crew

How the pricing works: Final quote confirmed on site after walkthrough. Disposal of all materials included in the total. We don't pull demo permits — that's the homeowner's responsibility when required.

Standalone outbuildings only — no interior demo, no full-house teardowns, no asbestos.

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The floor price, from the canonical source

The tier above renders live from the same canonical pricing data as everything else in our demo lineup — this page holds no numbers of its own to drift out of date. $200 floors the simple version: standard set, reachable yard, anchors that cooperate. Big multi-tower wooden complexes, in-ground trampolines, and long carries move it up, stated plainly before we book.

Disposal is inside the number — pressure-treated lumber to licensed CT transfer stations, steel to recycling. And if the playset is one item in a bigger yard reckoning, bundle it: a fence pull, a shed teardown, or a general junk removal load on the same dispatch almost always beats separate visits.

Kids outgrew it years ago?

Send photos, get a fixed price — most sets are gone within the week.

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Five steps, most of them short

  1. Call (203) 219-8855 or send the demolition quote form. Photos usually finish the quote for playset-scale jobs — set, anchors if visible, and the path to the street.
  2. Fixed price confirmed. In writing, from photos or a quick walkthrough for the bigger forts.
  3. Schedule. Often same-week; these jobs slot into existing routes.
  4. Removal. 1-2 hours, 2-person crew: disassembly, anchor extraction, load-out.
  5. Gone. Steel recycled, lumber to licensed CT transfer stations, holes tamped. Invoice matches the quote.

Scope notes, playset edition

Backyard play equipment is about as safely inside our standalone-structures lane as it gets — no permits at this scale in any town we've worked, no utilities, no envelope questions. The standing rules still ride along: we don't haul concrete beyond the small anchor pours we dig ourselves, donation-worthy sets deserve a week on the local listings before demolition, and anything we said we'd extract, we extract. Full scope: demolition overview.

Playset removals — customer review

From our review corpus — a play set broken down and hauled in record time.

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    “They came, they saw, they hauled. Super fast response time, great rates and very friendly. The crew arrived early, broke my unwanted kids play set down in record time. I'm extremely happy with the service I received and I will most definitely be a repeat customer. I would also highly recommend them for your junk removal.”

    Saul W. G. · Wilton, CT

    YelpJun 2016

Playset removal FAQs

How much does playset removal cost?
Starting at $200 — the smallest tier on our whole demolition price list, because it's the smallest job. A basic metal swing set sits right at the floor; the big wooden fort-tower-slide-climbing-wall complexes land higher because there's simply more structure and more lag bolts. Trampolines usually ride the low end. Whatever the setup, the price is fixed at the walkthrough (or often from photos, for jobs this size) before we book.
How fast is the job, really?
1-2 hours, 2-person crew — that's honest, not marketing. These are the shortest jobs on our demo menu, which is exactly why they're worth hiring out: the crew shows up with the right sockets, saws, and a truck, and the thing your kids outgrew five years ago is gone before the coffee's cold. We often slot playset removals alongside other jobs in your area, which keeps the dispatch efficient and the price at the floor.
What about the ground anchors and concrete?
They come out. Metal swing sets are usually staked or augered into the ground; wooden playsets are sometimes anchored into small concrete pours at the corner posts. Either way, our standard is extraction — anchors pulled, small footings dug, holes kicked in and tamped. An anchor left in a lawn is a mower strike waiting to happen, and leaving it would be the kind of shortcut that shows up in a review. The rare oversized pour gets flagged and priced honestly at the quote.
How do trampolines come apart?
In the reverse order everyone assembles them wrong: springs first, and carefully — a loaded trampoline spring is a small catapult with opinions. Then the mat, the safety-net poles, and finally the frame sections, which unbolt or get cut where rust has made the decision already. The frame is good scrap steel, so most of a trampoline leaves the property as recycling rather than waste. In-ground trampolines add digging and price a bit above the floor.
The playset is still in good shape. Should I donate it instead?
Try — genuinely. A structurally sound wooden playset has real second-life value, and 'free, you disassemble and haul' listings find takers fast in family neighborhoods. Charities generally can't accept installed playsets (transport and liability), so the neighbor-to-neighbor route is the realistic one. Give it a week; if nobody bites, we're the tidy plan B. What we won't do is pretend a sun-rotted, splinter-shedding set is donation material — if it's past it, we'll say so.
Wood or metal — does it change the removal?
It changes where the pieces go. Metal sets and trampoline frames head to scrap recycling — most of that material never touches the waste stream. Pressure-treated playset lumber can't be burned, chipped, or reused as garden edging (the preservative chemicals rule it out), so it rides to a licensed CT transfer station with the rest of our demo loads. Rubber mulch and ground pads can go on the same truck; mention them so the quote covers it.
Do I need to do anything before the crew arrives?
Just two things: clear the toys, bikes, and sandbox gear out of the work zone, and point out the sprinkler heads or invisible-dog-fence wire if the anchors are near either. That's it — no permits at playset scale in any town we've worked (though if yours somehow says otherwise, that paperwork is yours), no utility disconnects, no draining. Easiest prep list on our menu.

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Call (203) 219-8855 or text photos of the set for a fast fixed price. Phones answered Mon–Fri 8 AM – 4 PM live, AI after-hours and weekends.

Call (203) 219-8855Get a Demolition Quote