Nobody hires a wrecking crew because the week is going well. We take structures down across Chicago and out to Cicero, Berwyn, Oak Park, Evanston and Oak Lawn, and we have been doing it for over 34 years.
And yes, we like it. There are worse ways to earn a living than flattening a garage that has been leaning since the Ditka era.
A rotted coach house with a caved roof turns into flat, graded dirt in a couple of days. One homeowner stood on her back steps afterward and told me the lot looked bigger than she remembered. It always does.
The smallest job we take is one bathroom stripped to the studs. The largest is a three-flat to the ground. In between: interior tear-outs, concrete sawing and slab removal, pools, chimneys, foundations, and hauling every bit of it away.
People ask what the three kinds are. An inside strip, a partial take-down, and a full teardown. Most Chicago Demolition work is one of those three, and every one of them needs a permit pulled and the gas, water and electric killed at the source first.
We are not the cheap bid, and that is deliberate. Suspect material gets hand-stripped and tested before the excavator touches anything, and we brace the party wall when the neighbor's two-flat sits four feet off yours. Skipping that step is how a demo turns into a lawsuit.
A frame house usually comes down in a day or two of machine work. The foundation, filling the void and grading it level takes the rest of the week. Permits are the slow part, not the wrecking.
Landlords and property managers, we phase the work around tenants. Call today and we will talk the job through, nine to five, Monday through Friday, and a Saturday when something truly cannot wait. Reading this at midnight? The form on this page reaches me, and I answer once I am back at it.