Right across Britain, there are a wide range of factories, warehouses, and buildings that are mostly constructed out of steel, which need to be carefully demolished and recycled. That’s precisely what our business specialises in, factory demolition as well as offering site clearance services.

How long have you been demolishing buildings within Cardiff?

Our management have been demolishing buildings, for well over 40 years, they are therefore some of the most knowledgeable, expert, and experienced demolition team anywhere within Wales and also the United Kingdom.

They also have a huge amount of experience, demolishing commercial, and industrial as well and also all types of residential buildings.

Whatever the building is, whether it’s made from brick, concrete, or steel we have the demolition equipment to safely demolish it.

Which type of metal buildings can you dismantle and fully demolish?

The buildings can range from light industrial units, for example, there are many of these all around Cardiff.

Also, sometimes redundant, and obsolete equipment, such as a steel chimney stack used on an industrial site might need demolishing through one of our high-reach excavators.

Alternatively, it might be a large warehouse, and perhaps the building has incurred a lot of rust and it now needs to be demolished. We travel throughout the United Kingdom, taking our low loader, our trucks, and our excavators offering our demolition site services.
We can use our metal shears, which are fitted onto the end of an excavator, using something called a quick hitch attachment, this fits to the end of the machine and allows us to cut through metal angle iron with absolute ease.

Once the steel has been cut, often when it’s on the floor, we might use a separate excavator again to cut the steel into much smaller sections before they are add it into a waste bin.

How much of the steel gets recycled?

We are pleased to say that a hundred percent of the non-ferrous and ferrous metals get recycled, we will also aim to take them to the nearest scrapyard so that we reduce the diesel and therefore the carbon output of the trucks that are on the road transporting this waste.

We then take the steel to a recycling yard, where it gets sorted, for example, it needs to be separated into copper, aluminium, lead and also into cable, for example, there are even different types of cable there are household cable, there is also industrial cable which is much thicker.

Steel recycling

Across Britain, many warehouses, as well as factories need to be demolished. Often a new company will be taking over the business premises, and they may simply need a building that is taller or perhaps just larger so that they can manufacture the goods that they want within that building.

Often this means that the existing building will need to be carefully demolished, to do this, large excavators, and machines that are fitted with powerful, hydraulic shears, snip through the RSJ like a hot knife through butter. Cutting the metal into smaller pieces, another machine is used to load waste metal into a recycling bin, whereby it is then lifted by a hook loader truck and then taken to a local metal recycling yard.

Cardiff demolition

Throughout the great city of Cardiff, many industrial buildings need demolishing by South Wales Demolition Ltd.
These buildings that need demolition could range from buildings that have incurred fire damage, for example, the building might have incurred fire damage which means that the building is now not salvageable, therefore it can’t be repaired, at all, and is extremely dangerous to enter simply because the roof may have partially or fully collapsed. Therefore, what is needed is an expert and highly experienced demolition contractor, to quickly come to the site and bring huge excavators fitted with shears to make sure that the building is safely demolished.

Fire-damaged building demolition and dismantling

The problem with fire-damaged buildings, or buildings that have become unsafe because of say a roof collapse, is that they need to be demolished quickly. Sometimes members of the public after a large fire has occurred within the building, may decide to go and have a look, if they do decide to perhaps enter the building, they could be risking their health and safety because it only takes a small amount of metal, perhaps a metal sheet to fall off the roof and this could cause severe injury.

Therefore, what is often needed is our expert team, of highly experienced, really knowledgeable site managers to come on-site, quickly create method statements, and then begin the demolition work with their large excavators.

Metal recycling, nonferrous and ferrous metals

For a demolition business, to recycle a large amount of heavy iron and steel and also non-ferrous metals often what is needed is a large powerful excavator to be used.

This will make the heavy lifting of, large pieces of steel easy and light work.

This metal can then be entered into a bin, and taken to a South Wales steel recycling yard, where the metal can be fully recycled, it often then exported, or used internally within the United Kingdom, to be re-melted, and made into a new steel product.

Steel demolition throughout the United Kingdom

We can travel anywhere within the United Kingdom, and we offer some of the most competitive prices to demolish steel buildings.

This can range from small steel buildings that may take less than a week to be fully demolished, ranging up to metal large warehouses, and we may need to be on the site for well over a month.

We have a range of excavators, so we can demolish any type of building within Cardiff and anywhere else in Britain.