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Site clearance after demolition — what “clean site” means

“Leave it clean” is the most expensive vague sentence in demolition. Here is what we mean by a clean site, and how to write the finish so the invoice cannot grow a secret landscaping job.

18 Jun 2026Process6 min read

Tipper truck arriving across a cleared, levelled block, excavator bucket in the foreground.
Cleared block, truck in to cart the last of it away.

Walkable

You can walk the block in work boots. Brick piles are gone, not pushed behind the shed. Steel is stacked or carted. Grade is even enough for the next trade. That is the test we use.

Name the finish

Slab left. Slab out. Dirt. Crushed rock to a depth. Each of those is a different cartage and plant story. If the next trade is a concreter, say so. If it is a landscaper, say so. If you want to keep fill, say so — otherwise it leaves.

When clearance is the whole job

Plenty of Victorian blocks lost the house years ago and still wear a slab, a shed and a mound. That is site clearance. We still need to know about remaining fabric (asbestos in the shed), pits, and what the new permit assumes is on the ground.

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