Demolition contractor in Queens
Queens is the borough where a machine can usually get to the work, and that changes what a job costs.
Queens building stock
Queens covers more ground than any other borough and its stock is the most varied. Detached and semi-detached houses with driveways and garages through Bayside, Whitestone and Douglaston. Dense two-family and multifamily through Astoria, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Flushing. Post-war and new-build towers in Long Island City. Warehouse and light industrial along the waterfront and the expressways.
What that means for a job in Queens
Driveways and side access are normal here
Unlike most of Brooklyn or Manhattan, a lot of Queens property has a driveway, a side path or a rear alley. Where a machine and a container can get to the work, a garage, pool or yard clearance runs in a fraction of the time it takes on a row house lot.
Two-family homes mean somebody is always home
Much of the borough is owner-upstairs, tenant-downstairs. Work in one unit is work in an occupied building: sealed separation, agreed hours, and a debris route that does not run past somebody else’s front door.
The largest concentration of outbuilding work in the city
Detached garages, sheds, decks, above-ground and in-ground pools and yard concrete are ordinary weekly work in Queens rather than an occasional job.
What we do most of in Queens
Everything we offer is available here. These are the jobs the local building stock actually generates.
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Coverage across Queens
We work across Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Rego Park, Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Ridgewood, Ozone Park, Jamaica, Howard Beach and the Rockaways.
Work here files with the New York City Department of Buildings, and the pre-1987 asbestos rule applies.
Demolition in Queens: your questions
Do I need a permit to take a garage down in Queens?
A detached accessory structure sometimes falls outside a full demolition filing, but it depends on size and construction and it is still DOB’s call, not a suburban one. We check for your address before quoting.
Can you get an excavator into my back yard?
Usually in Queens, and it is the first thing we check on the site visit. Where access allows a machine, the same job costs meaningfully less than it would on a Brooklyn row house lot.
We rent out the ground floor. Can you still work upstairs?
Yes, with the work sealed off from the rest of the building, agreed hours, and a route in and out that does not disturb the other unit.
Working in Queens?
Call and describe the job. Most of the time we can scope it on the phone and confirm on site.
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