Taking Down an Old Pergola in Brunswick?
Same-Day Pergola Removal in Brunswick Often Available — Call or Text
Pricing
How pricing works.
What pergola removal costs here. We price by the tier your items fill, starting at $95–$150 for a 1/8 truck; a single item is quoted from a photo so we can confirm the tier before anything is loaded. The number you agree to is the number you pay, and it includes carry-out, the disposal fee and cleanup.
Pergola pricing scales with size, material, how it’s anchored, and whether it’s attached or free-standing. A small free-standing vinyl pergola on bolt-down brackets over an open patio is the lightest version. A large cedar pergola ledger-bolted to the house, with posts set in concrete and a retractable canopy on top, is heavier work — more to detach up high, more to work out at the base, more beam to carry out.
Tell us the rough footprint, the material, whether it’s attached to the house or a deck, and how the posts meet the ground — bolt-down brackets, buried in concrete, or rotting in dirt. A couple of photos usually tell us everything we need. We don’t flat-rate every pergola the same, and we don’t invent a number for one we haven’t seen. We look at what you’ve got and quote it straight.
Concrete footings are part of what we look at in those photos.
The short version
Pergola Removal at a glance.
- What it is
- Demolition and haul-away of wood, vinyl, and metal pergolas - taken apart from the top down and removed the same visit.
- What’s included
- Wood, vinyl, composite, and metal pergolas
- Attached and free-standing structures
- Rafters, beams, lattice tops, and canopies
- Posts pulled and brackets removed at grade
- Cleanup and haul in one visit
- How pricing works
- Priced by size, material, anchoring, and whether it's attached or free-standing, plus debris volume. Below-grade footings are looked at from your photos, and any permit is sorted out at the quote. Quoted after photos or a walkthrough.
Part of our Light Demolition service
A pergola is mostly open air held up by four to six posts, and that shape is what makes it its own job rather than a shed or a carport. There’s no roof deck to strip and no walls to knock down — the weight is in the beams, the rafters, and the lattice or slats up top, all of it bolted at the corners and sunk at the base. Coastal-Georgia pergolas take the salt air hard: cedar and pine gray and soften at the post bases, the fasteners rust in place, and shade cloth or vinyl slats go brittle and start dropping pieces onto the patio. When it’s past saving, we take it apart and haul it off in the same visit.
The base is the part that decides the job. A free-standing pergola set on a paver or concrete patio is usually anchored with post brackets bolted to the surface — those unbolt. Posts sunk in concrete footings below grade are something we look at from your photos. And a lot of Golden Isles pergolas aren’t free-standing at all: they’re attached to the house wall or ledger-bolted to a deck. We take those down too, detaching cleanly at the wall or deck without tearing up the siding or the decking that stays.
A pergola holds up shade, not a roof or a floor, so it sits squarely in the light, non-structural demolition we do. If a permit is needed, we’ll sort it out with you when we quote. Wired-in string lights, fans or heaters get sorted out with you when we quote. If yours is built into the home’s roofline or carries a solid covered roof, send photos — we’ll tell you what it takes and who needs to be involved.
What we haul
Specifically, what we take for pergola removal.
- Wood pergolas (cedar, pine, pressure-treated)
- Vinyl and composite pergolas
- Aluminum and steel pergola kits
- Attached (house- or deck-ledgered) and free-standing pergolas
- Pergola rafters, cross-beams, purlins, and lattice tops
- Retractable canopy and shade-cloth pergola covers
- Posts and above-grade post brackets and hardware
- Arbors, trellises, and garden archways (same crew, same trip)
How we work
Removing a Pergola Set Back on a Brunswick Property
A pergola comes down from the top, in the reverse order it went up. We pull the lattice or slat top first, then the rafters and the cross-beams, which drops the weight and leaves four bare posts standing. The posts come out last, once nothing overhead can shift. Most patio-sized pergolas break down with an impact driver, a reciprocating saw for the seized fasteners, and a second set of hands on the beams — a pergola is light for its size, but a twelve-foot beam still takes more than one set of hands.
What changes the day is the base and the attachment. Post brackets bolted to a patio unbolt fast. Posts set in below-grade concrete are something we can look at: send us a few photos and tell us where it is, and we’ll tell you what it takes. An attached pergola adds a step at the top: we detach the ledger from the house wall or the deck frame carefully, back the lag bolts out, and leave the surface intact for you to patch or reside.
Vinyl and aluminum kits come apart cleanest because the connections are bolted and the material doesn’t fight back. Old cedar is the slow version: soft wood, rusted lag screws, and post bases that have half-rotted into the ground. Either way it leaves in pieces, and we rake the patio or bed clear of dropped fasteners and lattice bits before we go.
Out along Old Jesup Road or in Brookman west of town, a pergola may sit well back from the driveway, over a patio behind the house or beside a garden. Distance from the truck is part of what we look at, along with whether the posts are bracketed or set in concrete. If a shed, an old fence run or a pile of storm limbs is going too, put it in the same photos; on a rural property, one trip is usually the better deal. Then you get a firm price, and it’s the same simple process everywhere out in rural Glynn County.
When licensed electrical or plumbing work is needed, that’s normally handled by you or a licensed pro. Show us what you have and where it is, and we’ll help figure out what’s needed and work around it. Anything load-bearing or structural is a licensed contractor’s job, and we’ll tell you plainly if yours crosses that line.
Questions
Frequently asked questions about pergola removal.
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Common in
Where we haul pergola removal most.
We haul pergola removal regularly across the Golden Isles, especially in Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Kingsland, and Jekyll Island.
Serving Brunswick and St. Simons Island.
Pergola Removal is handled out of our Brunswick base, across Glynn County and the Golden Isles. Same-day pickup is often available — call or text for the next available opening.
Ready when you are
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Get a firm price from photos. Same-day pickup often available across the Golden Isles.
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Last reviewed: July 6, 2026