Cabinets, counters, tile, fixtures and failed subfloor removed so your renovation starts from a known condition. The rest of the house is protected and the dust stays in the room being stripped.
Most kitchen and bathroom strip-outs happen in houses people are still living in, and that changes the method more than the scope does. Poly to the ceiling at the room boundary, filtered negative air so the pressure works inward, tack mats at the threshold and floor protection along the route to the door.
Done properly the rest of the house stays usable and the tile dust does not end up in the bedrooms. Done badly it is a week of cleaning that nobody quotes for. Services are capped by licensed trades rather than by the demolition crew, which is the same discipline used on any strip out.
Where the wall between the kitchen and dining room is going too, that becomes load bearing wall removal and needs shoring designed first, and pre-1990 flooring and tile mean asbestos removal is settled before anything is lifted.
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How It Runs
Four stages, priced before stage two
Protect the route
Containment at the room line, floors covered to the door.
Cap the services
Water, gas and power isolated by licensed trades.
Strip out
Cabinets, counters, tile and fixtures removed and hauled.
Expose and check
Subfloor and framing inspected before handover.
What The Tile Hides
The subfloor is where budgets actually move
Cabinets and tile come out to a predictable price. What sits underneath does not. A bathroom that has leaked slowly for a decade will have a soft subfloor, sometimes rotten joists, and neither is visible until the floor is up.
A kitchen may have three layers of vinyl and adhesive over the original boards. This is the single most common source of a renovation variation, and the honest thing is to say so before the work rather than after. We strip in a sequence that exposes the subfloor early, stop, and show you what is there so your builder can price the repair properly.
Hartford kitchen and bath strip-out questions, answered
Usually yes for a kitchen if you have another way to cook, and for a bathroom if there is a second one. Containment is what makes it tolerable rather than merely possible.
One to two days to strip a standard bathroom back to stud and subfloor. A kitchen is two to three, more if the flooring is layered.
Licensed trades, arranged by us. A demolition crew should never be capping a gas line, whatever the schedule pressure.
We stop, show you, and let your builder price the repair. Covering it back up would be the cheaper afternoon and the more expensive year.
Pre-1990 floor tile and its adhesive can contain asbestos, so a survey comes first. Where it is present, removal is licensed work done before the rest of the strip-out.
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