The Discipline Is in What You Do Not Break
Interior demolition is surgery: strip a tenant space to shell, open a load path without dropping the floor above, remove the 1970s finishes while protecting the terrazzo underneath. It rewards containment, sequencing, and knowing which materials in a pre-1985 Chattanooga building must be tested before anyone cuts into them — and it punishes the sledgehammer-first approach with change orders, contaminated dust, and schedule wrecks.
Work We Handle
- Commercial gut-outs — retail and office spaces stripped to shell for tenant improvement, on nights and weekends when the neighbors are open for business.
- Selective structural demo — wall, stair, and opening removals cut to the engineer's plan with temporary shoring where required.
- Residential gut renovations — whole-house strip-outs for remodelers and investors: plaster, flooring, kitchens, baths, systems, hauled and gone so trades start clean.
- Flood and fire strip-outs — damaged finishes removed to sound structure fast, so drying and rebuild can start.
- Concrete cutting and removal — interior slabs, trenching for new plumbing, and machine-access openings.
The Testing Step That Protects Everyone
Renovation-scale demolition in older buildings triggers the same asbestos rules as teardowns: suspect materials — floor tile, mastic, plaster systems, ceiling texture, pipe insulation — need accredited testing before disturbance once threshold quantities are involved. We flag it in the bid, coordinate the testing, and keep your project on the right side of the Air Pollution Control Bureau, because a stop-work order in week one costs more than every test combined.
How Jobs Run
- Walk-through and fixed bid — scope, protection plan, containment, dumpster logistics, and schedule in writing. Typical interior demo runs $2,000–$20,000 depending on square footage and selectivity.
- Protection and containment — floor protection, dust walls, negative air where the space demands it.
- Strip-out — sequenced, sorted for recycling where practical, and hauled daily so the site never becomes the dump.
- Broom-clean handoff — the next trade walks into a space that is ready, not a space that needs a cleanup week.
GCs and remodelers: we play well as your demo sub — insured, scheduled, and gone before your framers arrive. Standing rates available for repeat work.
Serving Chattanooga and Hamilton County plus North Georgia. Call (423) 497-3783.