Houses, storefronts, warehouses, interiors, concrete and site work. One contractor for the survey, the permit, the abatement and the disposal, rather than four numbers that do not add up.
Demolition goes wrong at the joins. The survey company finds asbestos, the abatement firm clears it, the demolition crew turns up and finds the utilities are still live, and each of them is right about their own scope while the programme slips a month.
Running it as one job removes those joins: one survey, one sequence, one set of paperwork and one person to ask. It also means the price includes the parts that usually arrive as variations, because we have already looked at them.
Every municipality runs its own filing and notification requirements, and the utility providers set their own disconnection lead times regardless of what anybody local wants. The gas cap is almost always the longest item, commonly running weeks rather than days, and the electricity disconnection is not far behind.
Because those are requested by the property owner rather than the contractor, nothing starts until the calls are made. We tell you the order on the first call so the clocks run in parallel rather than one after another.
All eight lines of work: residential, commercial, industrial, interior, selective, concrete, site work and abatement. One contractor and one quote rather than a main contractor plus four subcontractors, which is where most of the finger-pointing comes from.
The whole area, and travel inside it does not change the price. What changes a price is access: whether a machine can reach the structure, and how far the material has to be carried to the road.
We do, as part of the job. The utility disconnections have to be requested by you as the account holder because the providers only act on the name on the account, and those dates are what set the start.
Usually within a few days for the survey. If a structure is unsafe now, say so on the call rather than waiting for a survey slot.
Always, and after a survey rather than over the phone. Structure, abatement, disposal and permit each get their own line so you can compare it against anyone else's.
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