Family-owned since 2014 · 4.99 ★ × 463 reviews · 16,000+ jobs
Shed Removal & Demolition in Connecticut
Garden sheds through 16x20+ outbuildings — torn down, loaded, and hauled in a day. Starting at $400, fixed quote on site, disposal included.
16,000+
jobs completed
4.99 ★
463 reviews
Family-owned
since 2014 (12 years)
Licensed & insured
in Connecticut & New York
Every old shed tells the same story by the time we get the call: it came with the house, it's been sinking into the yard for a decade, the door hasn't closed right since the first winter, and this spring a corner finally let go. Shed removal is one of the cleanest jobs in our demolition lineup — one day, two people, and a level patch of ground where the eyesore stood.
We tear down and haul away sheds anywhere in Connecticut — 8x10 garden sheds up through 16x20+ outbuildings, dispatched from our Stamford and West Haven yards across Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford, Litchfield, and Middlesex counties plus the lower New London shoreline. Small sheds start at $400, larger ones at $700, and the number you actually pay is fixed on site at a free walkthrough before anyone swings a bar.
Shed removal — starting prices
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.
- Sheds (8x10 to 10x12)$400+
Wood-frame, on-grade or skid foundation, single-day teardown.
1 day, 2-person crew
- Sheds (12x16+) and outbuildings$700+
Larger wood-frame outbuildings, barns under ~400 sq ft.
1-2 days, 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.
See demolition scopeWhat shed removal costs
Two tiers, and the footprint decides which is yours. $400 is the floor for the 8x10-to-10x12 class: empty structure, clear access, skid or gravel base. $700 does the same for 12x16 and up. Both figures render live from the same canonical pricing data as the demolition hub, so this page can't quietly drift from the master list.
What moves a shed quote above its floor, in rough order of how often we see it: contents still inside, a double-walled build someone framed like a small garage, a spot the truck can't get near (every extra fifty feet of carry matters), partial collapse, and salvage requests that need careful disassembly. None of it is a surprise on the invoice — the walkthrough number is the contract.
One thing the price never includes: concrete. A poured slab stays — we don't cut, break, or haul concrete, and broken slab is clean-fill material that belongs with a specialist hauler, not in our cans. Most homeowners keep the slab as a pad for the next shed. If you'd rather swing the bar yourself, a small shed is honestly a fine weekend project — rent one of our roll-off dumpsters and take your time. For the full cost anatomy, all the quote drivers plus the honest DIY math, read our shed demolition cost guide.
Why shed removal costs less with Grizzly
When homeowners collect quotes for old shed removal, ours tends to come in under the pile, and there's a structural reason for it — not a discount, not a thinner job.
Most shed-removal outfits don't own the container the debris leaves in. They rent a roll-off from a container company, pay per-load dump fees on that rental, and pass both through to you with a markup on top. There's a second company inside their quote, and you're the one paying for it.
Our crew tears the shed down and the debris goes straight into our own can, on our own truck, on our own disposal route. Grizzly owns about a hundred cans and runs them out of two Connecticut yards — Stamford and West Haven — which means the teardown and the hauling live on one company's cost structure instead of two. No rented container, no per-load dump-fee markup, no middleman in the chain.
That's the whole trick. Same saws, same crew size, same swept footprint at the end — a shorter chain between your backyard and the transfer station scale.
How a shed teardown goes
The call. (203) 219-8855, or the demolition quote form. Structure size, what it sits on, what's inside, how close a truck can park. Photos texted to the same number tell us most of it.
The walkthrough. Free, usually the same week. We check the foundation type, pace the access path, note any salvage requests — doors, window sashes, decent hardware come off first if you want them — and hand you a fixed price in writing.
Demo day. Salvage items come off, roofing gets stripped so the framing can drop clean, walls come down in sections with saws and bars — hand demolition, no machine ripping, which is why the flowerbed six feet away survives. Floor and skids come up last. Everything loads as we go rather than piling, so there's never a debris mountain on your lawn. 1 day, 2-person crew covers most sheds; a 16x20 with a loft might stretch to a second morning.
What's left. Skid or gravel base: plantable ground, raked level. Slab: swept clean and yours to keep or have a clean-fill specialist break out. A rotted or storm-collapsed shed changes the rhythm — nothing comes apart in predictable sections, so it runs slower and quotes above the floor — but it's a regular version of this call. Don't try to stabilize a collapsing shed before we arrive; just keep people out of it.
What counts as a shed
Everything the catalogs have ever called them: garden sheds, potting sheds, garden houses, she-sheds, storage sheds, tool sheds. If it stands alone in the yard and holds stuff, it's this page. The name doesn't change the quote — the material does, because material decides how the structure comes apart and what the load weighs.
Metal sheds unbolt fast and fold flat. The panels stack thin on the truck, the loads run light, and even a rusted-out frame is more cooperative than it looks — though a badly corroded shed sheds sharp edges, which is a good reason to let us handle it rather than wrestling it into your own trailer.
Plastic and resin sheds come apart almost as fast — panels unclip from the frame or cut quickly where the clips have fused. Bulky on the truck but light on the scale; the awkwardness is in the carrying, not the weight.
Wood sheds are the slowest to break down and the heaviest load, but the most predictable — sawn sections, framing, and roofing behave the same way on every job. Most of the sheds we remove are wood.
A finished interior — the she-shed with the daybed, the potting shed with three generations of clay pots — adds junk-removal scope for the contents. Same visit, quoted as its own line so you see both numbers side by side.
Where the shed actually goes
Shed demolition produces an honest mixed load: framing lumber, sheathing, roofing, whatever floor system survived the carpenter ants. It rides out in our own cans, on our own trucks, to licensed CT transfer stations — the same routes our roll-off fleet runs every day, which is exactly why the disposal line lives inside the fixed price instead of showing up as a separate dump fee on the invoice.
Metal gets pulled from the stream wherever the facility takes it — metal roofing, scrap steel, the hardware bucket a forty-year-old shed always yields. What never rides with us: concrete, dirt, stone (clean-fill lane, see above) and hazardous liquids — the paint cans, mower gas, and garden chemicals a shed accumulates go through your town's household-hazardous-waste program before demo day.
One scope note worth knowing up front: a few very old sheds carry asbestos-cement roof panels. If we spot suspect material at the walkthrough, we stop, decline that portion, and refer you to a licensed abatement contractor before any demolition happens.
Ready to lose the shed?
Free walkthrough, fixed price in writing before demo day.
Shed work — from our review corpus
This one's a haul-away after a self-demo — the family knocked the shed down themselves and we handled the removal. That's also a service we offer if you'd rather do the teardown and skip the disposal.
Y “My parents used this service for to remove large items (freezers, washer, dryer etc.) and a bunch of old wood from a shed we knocked down. I live in Boston but my parents are in Stamford and needed help with this removal since at their age they were unable to do it themselves. The process was extremely easy and service was punctual and timely. The workers were kind, careful, and fast with the removal the day they came. The yard never looked better.”
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Related demolition pages
- Demolition overview — full scope, all published starting prices, what we don't do
- Shed demolition cost guide — the cost drivers and the DIY math, long form
- Barn & outbuilding demolition — the bigger siblings, up to ~400 sq ft
- Chicken coop removal — coops, runs, and the small-structure end of the yard
- Detached garage demolition — where the slab rule comes from
- Roll-off dumpsters — DIY shed teardown, we handle the debris
Shed Removal by county
The job changes with the ground it sits on. Each county page covers access, housing stock, and the drive from our yard.
Get a shed removal quote
Call (203) 219-8855 or send the demolition quote form. Walkthrough usually same week. Phones answered Mon–Fri 8 AM – 4 PM live, AI after-hours and weekends.