You may not need to have an abestos survey and removal completed. In Iowa, for single house demolition, it is not required. You are required to look for the more obvious signs of asbestos like slate siding and roofing, abestos insulation on heating piping, etc.

A ten day Iowa DNR notification is not required for a single house. It is required on a commerical structure or a multiple house demolition project to have the abestos survey and removal and the 10 day Iowa DNR notification of demolition/renovation.

The state agency that is to be notified and that has the requirements for demolition is the Iowa DNR - Air Quality. This may vary from state to state.

You are required to complete a 48 hour notice before you dig with One Call. They will tell you what utilities that they will disconnect. The electrical, communication, power and gas company will most likely disconnect their services. The water and sewer is most like disconnected by the contractor/owner. Check with the city water and sewer department for their requirements. The cost to try to avoid is disconnecting at the main service line were most likely you will have to patch pavements. If you can cap water at the curb stop and sewer at the property line, you can possibly save yourself over $1,500 depending on the main location and depth. If you tell them you are possibly going to reuse the services, most city utilities will let you disconnect at the property line. You may need to be a licensed contractor to complete this work.

You will need an excavator with a thumb and some dumpsters for the demolition and hauling the debris to the landfill. The larger (40 yd) the dumpster the better. The brick, concrete, limestone will need to be loaded and hauled away with dump trucks or use as backfill if a crawl space or basement is present. If you have a 16 metric ton excavator ( John Deere 160 or Komatsu PC 160) that will probaby be the size you need.

Backfill will solid fill and most of the grading work can be completed with the excavator.