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Floor Removal

Removing an old floor can be a challenging thing to do especially if it’s old Linoleum with years of paste underneath it. The longer an linoleum tile stays stuck to the floor the harder it is to remove it. Sometimes the only option to remove old tiles like those are sheer brute force by destroying the tile completely. If your lucky, you can use a heat gun or a hair dryer to get the tile warmed up and loosen the glue. By heating up the tile you can get the tacky glue to start to loosen and let go of the old tile. the most annoying part though is that glue might stay stuck on the concrete in which case you might have to adhere to other methods like a scrapper which can be time consuming.

On the other hand, if you are dealing with ceramic tile or wood then you can easily break those old pieces off and start the demolition process that way. Removing these old pieces of wood and ceramic tile can be very easy with the correct tools in hand. Using a sledgehammer which can demolish almost anything in sight is your best bet.

After you have your pieces and junk on the floor it’s quite easy to scoop it all up and dump it out. If you need to get a dumpster you should go ahead and schedule one or a junk removal services.

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Demolition Contractors Credit

Verifying and checking your demolition contractor’s credit is an essential part of hiring a demolition contractor. Why Do you want to verify a demolition contractor’s credit worthiness? Because if a demolition contract does a job, takes your money, but fails to pay his supplies, subcontractors, or employees you can be legally obligated to pay them (again).

Credit checking your demolition contractor doesn’t completely eliminate the possibility of your contractor “cutting and running”, but chances are a demolition contractor with an established credit record is a much lower risk than a demolition contractor with no credit history or a poor credit history.

So how do you check a demolition contractor’s credit worthiness? The first step is to ask for a couple of credit references. You should ask for current work references from your demolition contractor so combining them with current credit references should not be a huge request. Beware of demolition contractors who won’t or can’t provide references. A refusal to supply references is your first tip that you may be dealing with a less than reputable demolition contractor.

You can also check a demolition contractors credit by using a third party agency. Credit agencies like Experian are offering services to check your demolition contractor’s credit. These third party agencies can actually serve as a valuable double check on supplied references.

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Surgical Demolition

A surgical demolition is when a demolition contractor demolishes a part of a building but preserves a large portion of the building standing for renovations.

An example of surgical demolition might be an old 5 story hotel where the top two floors have been damaged by fire. Normally a demolition contractor would knock the entire structure down, but if a developer wants to preserve and renovate the property a demolition contractor might be called upon to surgically remove the burned out floors while preserving the rest of the structures.

You see a lot of surgical demolitions in cases where an old commercial structure is being converted into a mixed use property. Take for instance an old factory that is being converted into a condo with shops and a movie theater. A developer may wish to preserve the exterior of the factory but gut the boiler rooms. Once again a demolition contractor is brought in to surgically demolish pieces of the factory.

Surgical demolition is a highly specialized field of demolition. Only a few dozen demolition contractors do it, and those demolition contractors are mostly in urban areas like Chicago and Los Angeles where older buildings are frequently being repurposed for other uses.

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Precise Demolition

A surgical demolition is when a demolition contractor demolishes a part of a building but preserves a large portion of the building standing for renovations.

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Backyard Junk Removal

Our backyard wasn’t in terrible shape to begin with. I mean, we’re not hoarders or anything, but looking around our Thousand Oaks backyard this spring I realized that we could get rid of a lot of junk. We had the swing set we bought for our twins … twenty years ago. We had a set of beach bicycles that we never used. And a bunch of yard toys, like a ping pong table, we had bought for the kids over the year.

I wanted to get rid of all that stuff and start fresh with a new garden.

So our solution was to hire a junk removal service in Thousand Oaks that could clean out our backyard and haul away the junk we need hauled away. I spent about a week shopping around for a reputable junk removal service that served the Thousand Oaks area. I checked internet reviews, compared prices, and asked for estimates over the phone.

Finally we found a junk removal service in the Thousand Oaks area that met our needs and one that would also recycle our junk instead of just throwing it all away in a landfill.

The backyard clean out process took about two hours. Our junk removal service hauled away the swing set, bicycles, and yard toys. They also helped clean out some junk — a few boxes of clothes and old CDs — from the garage.

Now in place of an old swing set we have a lovely flower bed and vegetable garden. Thanks junk removal services!

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Reputable Demolition Services

On the lookout for a reputable Demolition Company in Los Angeles? Look no further than the pros at Deconstruction Pro. I had the pleasure of meeting these guys and seeing how they worked. I’m glad to say that they were fast, efficient and best of all worked in a very safe and controlled manner. They had all the machinery that was required and then some!

It was really cool to see the process of a House Demolition go down and especially to be around all that heavy machinery, any boys dreams! Their Bobcat and Crane operators were very skilled and had years of professional experience driving those huge mechanical toys! With precision and efficiency they were able to knock down a garage and get the job done before their scheduled time frame! That’s what i call number 1 service if you ask me!

So next time when you have to get some demolition services done, please do not hesitate to call the professional team at Deconstruction Pro!

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Adventures in Kitchen Demolition

There comes a time when you require a much larger kitchen than your current set up. You have always dreamed of your master kitchen with many cabinets and a large island where you can prep all your delectable foodie recipes. Well getting to that point can sometimes be hard and confusing. You must first wish your current kitchen a fond farewell as you get ready to destroy and demolish everything maintained within. You can do this job yourself or you can hire a group of professionals that do this on a daily basis year in and year out.

If you take the Do-It-Yourself route, you surly will encounter many set backs and problems. For one, you must always wear safety equipment and also be aware that you know what you are demolishing and taking down. All too often the novice weekend warrior will pick up his mighty sledgehammer of Mjolnir and start swinging around with recklessness. Causing many problems in the long run and maybe even getting hurt in the process. You should really learn the lay out of your edifice and know where every wire is located before you decided to break down that bearing load.

Why don’t you save yourself a headache and trouble and just hire a kitchen demolition company? There are many to be found locally and are always ready to do a stellar job in your home or business. Demolition Services companies can keep you safe and not worrying about what can or cannot happen when demoing a kitchen. the best part of hiring a demolition services company is that you don’t have to worry about picking up all the leftover debris! They will actually take care of the demolition and clean up as well! Who would think of it right?

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What Do You Do if a Demolition Contractor Flakes on You?

This situation has come up multiple times. We’ve received several emails from customer who hire a demolition contractor for a job, like a swimming pool demolition, and they do maybe half the job. They tell the customer that they’ll be back tomorrow, or next weekend to finish the compaction and grading. Except they never show up to finish the job.

What do you do when a demolition contractor flake on you?

1. Call Your Demolition Contractor

Before escalating your complaint call your demolition contractor. Accidents do happen and life can interrupt at the worst possible time. It is entirely possible that a demolition contractor had problems with a piece of equipment, an injured worker, or even a personal emergency.

Give your demolition contractor an opportunity to fulfill his end of the contract. How long should you give a demolition contractor? If he or she seems responsive to your calls and has a legitimate excuse, a week or two. If a demolition contractor simply refuses to return your calls then you will want to escalate quickly.

2. Call the Better Business Bureau

Getting the Better Business Bureau involved in your situation is critical. Firstly, Better Business Bureau intervention often works to resolve a situation. Secondly, your laying a foundation for a possible court case.

By attempting to resolve your dispute through the Better Business Bureau and attempting to get your demolition contractor to finish the work he started.

3. Withhold Payment

Hopefully you have a fairly specific contract with your demolition contractor that includes a payment schedule. If you owe the demolition contractor anything, don’t pay it until he is willing and able to complete the work he finished.

4. File a Complaint with Your State’s Contractor Licensing Board

Every state has a licensing board or organization that licenses contractors, including demolition contractors. Find the proper licensing board that covers your state and file a complaint against your demolition contractor for failure to finish a job.

5. Court

If nothing else works your only other option is to sue your demolition contractor and bring them into court. You can either sue your demolition contractor in small claims court, or sue him in civil court. Which should you use? That largely depends upon how much money you are trying to get in damages. You should consult with the legal aid department at your courthouse to determine which type of legal action is correct for you.

Hopefully none of this will be necessary. If you’ve done your homework and picked a experienced, professional, and licensed demolition contractor you can avoid this particular pratfall. If you want to know more about demolition contractors go here.

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How to Garage Demolition

Garage demolition is fairly straightforward. You will need a demolition permit, a large dumpster or waste bin, tools (pry bar, heavy hammer, circular saw) and safety equipment. You may also want to recruit help to assist you in a garage demolition.

1. Obtain the necessary demolition permits

Talk to your local building department and obtain the necessary permits. What type of permit will you need? Depends entirely on your city and the rules that govern garage demolition in your city and state.

2. Rent a Dumpster

Depending on the size of the garage you may need to rent a fairly larger dumpster. For most garages you need a dumpster in the 20 to 40 yard range.

3. Turn off Utilities

Make sure you turn off all utilities going to your garage, this includes electricity, water and gas. Remove the wires and switches leading from your house’s breaker box to the garage. Double check that the water (if applicable) has been turned off by opening up faucets. Double check that the power has been turned off by checking voltages on outlets and switches.

4. Remove Anything That Can Be Reused or Resold

Window treatments, window sills, and even windows themselves. Also plumbing and doors, outlets and switches, and lighting fixtures. Anything you want to save or resell. Make sure you put these things aside to one so they don’t get mixed in with the rubble. Also make sure you disassemble the garage door, garage door mechanism, and garage door opener.

5. Remove the Garage’s Roofing

Carefully, and using an assistant to steady your ladder, carefully remove the roofing materials from the roof. Start at the pinnacle and move downward, reducing the garage to its shell.

6. Remove the Wall Framing

Cut out the remaining shell using a circular saw and let it all fall into a pile.

7. Remove Construction Debris

Throw the construction debris you have on the ground into the dumpster. Once its full call the dumpster / roll off company and have the dumpster hauled away.

Posted on May 22, 2013 at 11:19 pm Leave a Comment

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Elements Every Contract with a Demolition Contractor Needs

Contracts exist to protect you and to protect your demolition contractors. Many people look on contracts as unnecessary. Why should I worry about a contract? I trust the guy. My common retort is, that’s exactly why you need a contract. Contracts spell out the Who, What, When, and Whys of a demolition contract. So what are some of the elements every contract with a demolition contractor needs?

1. Description of Work to Be Performed and a Time Frame

The description of work to be done by your demolition contractor is fairly obvious. This should be a fairly detailed section about what type of demolition work is to be done (i.e. pool demolition) and how it will be done. A time frame is simple an estimate of when a job will start (job will commence April 1, 2014) and when it will be completed (April 7, 2014). Some States in the U.S. require that all contingencies that could delay a job (bad weather for instance).

2. Payment Schedule

This is a section that spells out how a demolition contractor gets paid. Typically demolition contractors get paid in stages or tranches. I.E. a certain amount of money paid up front, a certain amount of money paid at the beginning of a project, a certain amount of money paid at the end of a project.

3. How Any Changes to the Work Will Be Handle

Typically contractors will require a dual signature on a work order to change any aspect of the demolition project. One from the contractor, one from the person who hired the contractor

4. Required Inclusions

Depending on the state there are certain required inclusions that must be included in every contract. Inclusions like warranties, resolution of disputes, and a notice of right to cancel. Check to see what inclusions are necessary in your state.

5. Choice of Law

A clause outlining a choice of law basically outlines how disputes will be handled should they arise, and whether and which court of law will handle a dispute.

You may wish to consult with a contract attorney before signing a full contract with your demolition contractor. Especially if you have a particularly intensive or complex demolition contract.

Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:16 pm Leave a Comment

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