Demolition contractor in Brooklyn
We are based on Atlantic Avenue, and Brooklyn is where most of our week happens.
Brooklyn building stock
Brooklyn is row house country. Brownstones, limestones and frame row houses built shoulder to shoulder, most of them a century or more old, with a shared party wall on one or both sides and a yard you can only reach through the building. North and east of that you have the warehouse and loft stock in Gowanus, Bushwick and East Williamsburg, much of it now converted or being converted.
What that means for a job in Brooklyn
Party walls change everything
On an attached house, the wall you are working next to belongs to two buildings. Anything that opens it, loads it or exposes it needs to be planned rather than judged on the day, and where a rear extension is coming off, the exposed face has to be weatherproofed the same day it is opened.
The yard is reached through the house
Most Brooklyn row houses have no side access. Clearing a back yard means a protected route through the hallway and out the back door, with material sized to fit it. That decides the method and the cost far more than the size of the yard does.
Almost everything here is pre-1987
Which means an asbestos assessment sits on the critical path of nearly every permitted job in the borough. Plaster and lath, old floor tile and pipe lagging are the routine finds in this stock.
What we do most of in Brooklyn
Everything we offer is available here. These are the jobs the local building stock actually generates.
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Coverage across Brooklyn
We work across Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Greenpoint, Red Hook and the rest of the borough.
Work here files with the New York City Department of Buildings, and the pre-1987 asbestos rule applies.
Demolition in Brooklyn: your questions
Can you reach a back yard with no side alley?
Yes. Material comes out through the house on a boarded and sheeted route, sized to go through a hallway and a front door. It is slower than side access and we price it that way rather than pretending it is the same job.
We share a party wall with next door.
Then that wall is the first thing we look at. What is planned near it, whether it needs temporary support, and how the exposed face gets closed are all settled before work is scheduled.
Are you actually based in Brooklyn?
Yes, on Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights. It is the reason Brooklyn jobs get the shortest travel and the easiest scheduling.
Working in Brooklyn?
Call and describe the job. Most of the time we can scope it on the phone and confirm on site.
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