Whether you are building a new home from scratch or renovating your landscaping, you must first address the structures that are already on the property. While you may be able to remove a carport or shed yourself, professional demolition is usually a wiser option for pools, existing homes, mobile homes, and other more complex structures.
Building and demolition codes can be complex. Reputable demolition contractors have the necessary license, experience and training to ensure your project complies with all applicable federal and local codes.
This compliance can be particularly important if your demolition project involves difficult materials or regulated plant and wildlife habitats. Hiring a professional protects you from possible fines and ensures that documentation, such as B. Permissions, is fine for your project.
Demolition has many inherent security risks. However, the risk of injury for inexperienced people is significantly higher than for trained demolition crews. By letting experienced workers do the demolition, you protect yourself from injury and make your project safer overall.
These safety standards can give you peace of mind and ensure that your project will not be delayed or complicated by hazardous conditions.
Many people attempting demolition alone must rely on hand tools such as sledgehammers for most of the project. Imagine demolishing a building with a single hammer. Then imagine the same demolition project being handled by an excavator.
Not only are these faster professional methods, as we will see in section seven, but the specialized equipment used makes the demolition much easier to complete and efficient.
A demolition team can dismantle almost any type of structure, from the roof to the foundation, and ensure the entire object is removed as efficiently as possible.
Demolition projects often have very strict limits. For example, if you're demolishing a swimming pool and patio, you need to make sure you protect your home from damage. Or if you are demolishing everything on a property, you need to know the property boundaries.
Before the professional demolition begins, the team knows the exact boundaries of the project.
Sometimes these boundaries can be as precise as demolishing a particular building and preserving the foundations underneath. By hiring a professional, rather than relying on help you can muster yourself, you ensure you don't have to rebuild anything that shouldn't have been demolished in the first place.
When it comes to health and environmental hazards that can occur on construction sites, you know more want to do than meet basic standards. You also want to protect yourself, your property and your local ecosystem.
Demolition crews routinely handle difficult materials. For example, many demolition companies do the asbestos remediation themselves or work with a company that focuses solely on safe asbestos removal and disposal.
Using professional demolition services also reduces the risk of groundwater contamination, excessive emissions and other general construction hazards.
This protection is especially important if your project is in close proximity to wetlands, national parks or reserves, or the ocean.
Perhaps one of the most important advantages of professional demolition over amateur demolition is that having a pro can significantly shorten the entire process. In some cases, demolition can be completed and cleaned up in days instead of weeks.
This quick process allows you to start building sooner, saving you time and money. An overall shorter demolition and construction process can be crucial in areas with changing weather conditions that could delay the project.
For example, in Florida you want to complete projects in temperate weather. If the project drags on too long, you may have to deal with extremely high temperatures, unpredictable winds, heavy rainfall, or even hurricane season