Interior demolition in St. Louis, MO

Full gut or selective demolition?

Full interior guts: Down to the studs and subfloor, ready for your contractor. That is the whole interior of a house or a commercial space, opened up so the next contractor can build.

Selective deconstruction: Careful removal of just what's going, around what's staying. A wall between two rooms, a drop ceiling, or one floor of carpet can come out while the rest of the building stays. You mark the line. We stay on our side of it.

Both are interior demolition. Neither one is a promise about how long the day runs. Send photos and we quote the labor from what is actually coming down.

What we take out

Walls, drywall, flooring, ceilings and fixtures. On a full gut that list grows to cabinets, tile, carpet and pad. The truck takes the pile in the same job, so you are not left living with a room of drywall and nails.

Carpet and pad we have already pulled in an O'Fallon house, down to the subfloor in the living room and bedrooms. That was a junk-removal visit, and the same haul rules apply when carpet comes out as part of a gut. See the O'Fallon carpet pull.

Houses and commercial interiors

A house gut and a commercial interior are the same trade: finishes and partitions out, structure that is staying left alone, debris on our truck. Offices, shops and other commercial interiors have their own page, commercial interior demolition in St. Louis.

Homeowners mid-remodel use us between the demo and the next trade. Contractors who would rather not babysit a pile can set up debris pickups. Landlords use the same crew on rental turnovers. Property cleanouts already cover rentals; a tear-out is the demolition half of that visit.

Kitchens and bathrooms are the rooms people ask for by name. The write-ups, with the job photos, are on kitchen demolition and bathroom demolition.

Before demo day

Water, gas and electric to the area need to be shut off and capped before demo. Ask us if you're not sure.

Mark what's structural, what's being reused, and what's off-limits. We plan around it.

Permit rules are different in every city we work. We'll walk you through what your address needs. We are a licensed company. We do not pull City of St. Louis demolition permits, and we are not a City of St. Louis certified demolition contractor.

We can't haul asbestos. If a material might be asbestos, an inspector tests it before we start. We don't do abatement. The rest of what we refuse is the same list as junk removal: tires, batteries, liquid paint, and hazardous materials such as chemicals, solvents, fuel and medical waste.

How much does interior demolition cost in St. Louis?

Labor is quoted per job from photos, because a single wall and a full gut are not the same day of work. There is no per-square-foot price on this site.

Hauling the debris is separate and published. A quarter load starts at $175 (4.25 cubic yards). A half starts at $340. Three quarters starts at $515. A full 17-yard truck starts at $655. Heavy material (concrete, brick, dirt, roofing shingles) adds about $75 per quarter load. Location, or needing equipment, can add more. The full price breakdown lists every load and every add-on. Examples are typical, not promises — how things stack changes what fits.

An interior demolition job in Ferguson

The recorded interior job, the one that was a wall removal rather than a kitchen or a bath, is in Ferguson. The photo is the room after the walls came out and the floor was cleaned up.

Bathroom tear-outs in Webster Groves, Manchester, Ladue and St. Charles are the same kind of strip-out, told on the bathroom page so this one doesn't repeat them. The Brentwood visit was countertops and backsplash only. It's on the Brentwood page and the kitchen page.

What does an interior demolition in Ferguson look like?

The Ferguson frame is the room after the walls came down. You can see the ceiling and the floor marked where those walls stood, and the floor swept. That mark is the useful part: it shows a wall removal, not a full gut of every finish in the house. If your job is one wall, photograph the wall from both rooms and say what is on the other side.

A full gut photo set is different. We want each room, the floor, the ceiling, and a note about what the contractor is keeping. Labor is quoted from that set. There is no square-foot rate. Call (314) 379-7955 or send photos for a quote. We're based in Florissant. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7am to 5pm. Licensed and insured ($3 million policy). Not a City of St. Louis certified demolition contractor.

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