Residential Structures
The core of this service
Single-family houses, taken down complete and hauled off.
House & Building Demolition in Central Kentucky
Complete residential and small commercial building demolition, taken down and taken away. The part people underestimate is not the demolition. It is everything that has to happen before it.
- Crown’s own published range: $4,000 to $15,000+
- Crown handles the permit process as part of the job
- Ask about the start date, not the duration. That is where the time is
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The demolition is the short part
On a whole structure the thing worth planning around is not how long the machine is on site. It is everything queuing in front of it.
Days
The demolition itself
A house comes down and gets loaded out in a matter of days. This is the part everyone pictures, the part that looks dramatic, and the part that is almost never what delays a project.
It is also the only part most quotes talk about.
Weeks
Everything before it
The asbestos survey, the wrecking permit with its insurance certificate and demolition plan, the utility disconnects and the sewer plug. Where the state asbestos notification applies, ten working days sit inside that. None of it can be compressed by working harder.
Ask when we can start. That is the number that moves your project.
What we take down
Crown’s own scope is complete residential and small commercial demolition. The shapes it takes, and one boundary.
Small Commercial
Where the state notification rules bite
Small commercial and light industrial buildings.
Garages & Large Outbuildings
Often quoted with the main structure
Substantial detached structures on the same site.
Foundations & Site Clear
What "complete" should mean
Slabs and foundations broken out and the site left clear.
What house & building demolition costs
Published ranges, because almost nobody in this market will give you a number before a site visit. You get a firm figure before anything starts and only pay for work completed.
Smaller residential structure
$4,000 to $8,000
A small house or a substantial outbuilding, taken down complete.
Standard house
$8,000 to $15,000
The common job. Permits, disconnects and disposal volume set the position in the band.
Large or commercial
$15,000+
Larger residential, small commercial, and anything with a complex site.
- Size and construction
- Square footage, stories, and whether it is timber, block or masonry.
- Permits and disconnects
- The paperwork and the utility work, which sit in front of the job.
- Disposal volume
- A whole structure is a great many loads. It is priced in, not added later.
- What is under it
- Whether foundations and slabs come out, and how far down they go.
These are Crown’s own published house and building ranges, split across the tiers people ask in. The asbestos and permit background common to all demolition is on the demolition hub rather than repeated here.
How house & building demolition works
Four steps, no obligation, and you only pay for work completed.
Free quote and site walk
A whole structure is walked rather than quoted from photos. Send photos first and we will arrange the visit.
Permits, survey and disconnects
The survey, the wrecking permit and the utility and sewer disconnects: this is the phase that sets your start date.
Controlled demolition
The structure comes down in a planned order, with the site protected and the neighbors considered.
Site cleared and handed over
Debris gone, foundations out where they are in scope, ground left clear.
What Our Customers Say
Very quick from contact to in home to remove some flooring. Once on site they got straight to work and did an outstanding job! Very reasonable price for the work done. Will continue to use them for all future needs.
Extremely helpful and nice, was hired for land clearing and site preparation they removed pesky honey suckle. Definitely going to hire them in the future.
Very hard workers that cleaned out a whole house that was trashed and filthy. Very polite and considered. Would definitely recommend this company!
The questions we get asked
Answered properly rather than deflected to a phone call.
Not sure it’s this job?
Send two or three photos. If it is really a different service we will say so and point you at the right page. It costs you nothing either way.
Send photos insteadHow soon can you start?
Later than most people expect, and for reasons that have nothing to do with our schedule. A structure needs a wrecking permit from your city, and the permit application typically wants proof of insurance, utility and sewer disconnects, an asbestos report and a written demolition plan before it will issue. Where the state asbestos notification applies it adds ten working days of its own on top. Ask any demolition contractor when they can start rather than how long the job takes: the answer to the second question is usually days and the answer to the first is usually weeks.
Do you handle the permits?
Yes. Crown handles the permit process as part of the job, which is stated on the demolition page and is one of the more useful things about using a company set up for structures rather than a crew with a machine. What that does not mean is that the paperwork takes no time. It means it is not your afternoon.
What about asbestos?
The asbestos position for demolition generally (the survey, when the state notification applies, and the ten working days) is set out on the demolition hub and it is worth reading before you get quotes on a whole structure, because this is the page where it genuinely bites. We are not an asbestos abatement contractor; where abatement is needed it is a licensed specialist’s job and we will tell you so rather than work around it.
Do the foundations come out too?
If they are in scope, yes, and it is worth settling explicitly because "demolished" and "cleared" are not the same word. Breaking out a foundation is concrete work: heavy, priced by weight, and capable of being a significant share of the total. If the site is being rebuilt on, the answer is usually that it comes out. Tell us what the land is becoming.
Which areas do you serve?
Lexington and the surrounding counties: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. Note that the wrecking permit is issued by your city rather than the state, so the requirements genuinely differ between these eight, and the local office is the authority on yours.
Get a price on your building
Send photos and the address and we will arrange a site walk: a whole structure is not a job anyone should quote from a phone screen. Tell us the date you need the site clear by.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
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