Site walk & quote
We walk the block, check access for the machines and tippers, look at what is coming down and what is staying, then write a fixed, itemised price.
About Happy Demolition
A local crew,
our own machines
Fifteen years of taking down houses, shops, sheds and heavy industrial steel across South East Queensland — and carting the lot away, asbestos included.
Family owned · Queensland
Who we are
Demolition without the middleman
Happy Demolition is a Queensland owned demolition and asbestos removal company working from Ipswich through Brisbane and Logan out to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
We own our excavators and tippers and we run our own crew, so the person who walks your block and quotes the job is the person who turns up to do it. Nothing gets handed to a third party halfway through, and nobody arrives on day one with a different price and a different plan.
Houses, Queenslanders, sheds, pools, shopfronts, warehouses and heavy industrial steel all come down the same way — planned first, then stripped, dropped, sorted and carted off. What you get back is a level block your builder can peg out on straight away.
- 15+ Years on Queensland sites
- 500+ Blocks cleared and handed back
- 7 Days a week we answer the phone
The part that matters most
We hold the asbestos licence
On any block built before 1990, bonded asbestos is the question that decides your timeline and your budget. Eaves, fence sheets, shed roofing, bathroom linings — it turns up constantly.
Most demolition contractors stop at that point and book a separate licensed removalist, which adds a week to the program and a second mobilisation charge to the invoice. We hold the licence ourselves. The sheeting comes off, goes to a licensed disposal facility, and the machines keep working to the same schedule.
- Bonded asbestos removed under our own Queensland licence
- Disposal receipts and documentation handed over at completion
- Air monitoring and clearance arranged where the job calls for it
- No second contractor, no second mobilisation fee
How a job runs
First phone call to clean block
Every demolition follows the same five stages. Knowing the order is what keeps the price honest and keeps the machines on your block for the shortest time possible.
Testing & approvals
Asbestos sampling where the age of the building calls for it, plus the demolition approval and any council paperwork the job needs before work starts.
Services disconnected
Power, water, gas, sewer and telecommunications all get formally disconnected and capped. Nothing swings until every service is confirmed dead.
Strip out & demolition
Asbestos and salvageable material come out first, then the structure comes down with dust suppression running and the site fenced off.
Clear & hand back
Debris, slab, stumps and contaminated soil leave with us. The block gets levelled, the paperwork gets handed over, and the next trade can start.
Why clients stay with us
One crew, one price, one contact
Demolition goes wrong in the gaps — between the quote and the invoice, between the asbestos crew and the machine operator. We close those gaps by doing the whole job in house.
Fixed, itemised pricing
Testing, disconnections, tipping fees and slab removal all appear in the quote up front. Those four line items separate a real price from a lowball one.
Our plant, our operators
Excavators, shears, hammers and tippers are ours. Nobody waits on a hire yard, and no unfamiliar operator learns your block on the day.
Fully insured, fully compliant
Public liability cover, safe work method statements and the disposal documentation you need at handover all come as standard, never as an extra.
Neighbours kept onside
Dust suppression, fencing, traffic control and sensible working hours. Tight suburban blocks and live retail centres make up most of what we do.
Recycling where we can
Concrete, brick, steel and clean timber get sorted and sent for reprocessing rather than straight to landfill. That keeps your tipping costs down too.
Open seven days
We answer quotes and book site visits from 7am to 8pm, every day. Builders working to a handover date should not have to wait until Monday.
Where we work
Across South East Queensland
Our yard sits in Ipswich, which puts most of the south east within an easy run for the floats and tippers. If your block falls outside these areas, call us anyway — we travel for the right job.
Contact us today
Need a block cleared?
Send the site details and we will price the job. Quotes answered seven days a week.