Scott Bankhead has been in the demolition business since 1994, when he started running his stepdad's outfit — Urban Slate Demolition, a Hot Springs name for decades. He bought the company, ran it for years, and later rebuilt the operation under his own name when the biggest job of his life demanded it: a 200,000 square foot Hot Springs high school — the biggest in town — brought down in five weeks with Scott in the machine, a couple of drivers, and four contract trucks.
The operation stays deliberately lean, and Scott will tell you exactly why: machines don't tear your stuff up, and the math has to math. So the man who answers the phone is the man who walks your property, quotes the job, and runs the excavator over it. Demolition, dirt work, grading, lot clearing, gravel drives and retaining walls — the specialty he's proudest of — all from one operator who's been reading Hot Springs ground for thirty years.
The person who looks at your job and quotes it is the person who shows up to do it. Call (501) 617-1511 — the estimate is free either way.
Hot Springs, AR · Since 1994 If the job is smaller than you feared, you hear that. If the honest fix is different from the one you called about, you hear that too — before any machine starts burning your money.
The number covers the finished state — teardown, loading, hauling, cleanup, grade. Priced from walking the actual property, free, never guessed over the phone.
A job ends at usable ground: debris gone, dirt graded out, the lot ready to build on, sell or mow. Done means you would never know the mess was there.
Scott has run demolition around Hot Springs since 1994 — up to a 200,000 sq ft high school in five weeks. Everybody thinks demo is easy work; thirty years is why it looks that way.
No rotating crew, no telephone game. The man who walks your property and quotes the job is the man in the excavator doing it — and contract trucks keep the debris moving out.
Free estimates from looking at the actual job. The number covers the finished state — teardown, loading, hauling, cleanup — not just the part before the mess.
Hillsides, lake lots, tight in-town streets — Hot Springs ground is its own animal. Local since 1994, from the lakes to the county lines, and the work respects the terrain.
From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
Scott comes and sees the actual job — the structure, the ground, the access, what stays and what goes. Thirty years of demo means a fast, honest read on what the work really involves. No blind quotes over the phone.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real timeline. It covers the teardown, the loading, the hauling and the cleanup — so the price you hear is the price for a finished job, not just the fun part.
Machines show up when we said they would. The structure comes down under control, trucks cycle the debris out, and the site stays contained — there's a method to the madness, and 30 years of it shows.
The job isn't done at the last bite of the excavator. Debris hauled off, ground graded out, and a lot you can actually use — ready to build on, park on, or just mow. Done means you'd never know the mess was there.
A house that needs to come down, a lot that needs clearing, a slope that needs a wall? Call or send the form and Scott will look at the job with you and give you a free, straight number — teardown through cleanup, one outfit.
Tell us about your project — we’ll get right back to you.