Interior gutting, structures, sheds, concrete, decks and fences, taken down and hauled off. On a structure in Lexington the paperwork is longer than the demolition, and we would rather you knew that at quote stage.
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This is the most demanding demolition permit process of the eight towns we work, and it is published in full, which is more than most cities manage.
The list, as the city publishes it. A certificate of insurance showing “bodily injury”, “per each accident”, “property damage” and “workmen’s compensation”, naming LFUCG as holder and covering wrecking. A grading permit. Notification of neighbors. An asbestos report. A letter from the owner authorising the contractor. A sewer plug number. A written demolition plan. Then the application itself.
Three offices, not one. The grading permit comes from Engineering at 101 E. Vine Street, 4th floor, on (859) 258-3410. The sewer plug number comes from Water Quality at 125 Lisle Industrial Avenue, on (859) 425-2400. The permit itself is Building Inspection, 101 E. Vine Street, 2nd floor, on (859) 258-3770. Three queues, and they do not run in parallel by themselves.
The neighbor notification is the step people miss. The city says its office “will furnish you with a list of addresses within 50 feet of the property line” and that notifications “must be made before starting any work.” You do not compile the list yourself, but you do have to serve it, and you have to do it before anything moves.
And the demolition plan is a real document. The city asks for “a step-by-step plan of how you intend to take the structure to the ground.” That is a contractor’s document rather than a homeowner’s, and it is one of the better reasons to use a company set up for structures.
Crown handles the permit process as part of the job. This is a plain-English summary of Lexington-Fayette’s published process, not legal advice, and the city is the authority on what your building needs. Decks, fences and most interior work sit outside the wrecking permit regime entirely.
Every job here ends the same way: the structure down, the debris on our trucks and off your property. See the full demolition service
The one with a trade waiting behind it.
Lexington has the remodelling market in this area, and a gut job here is almost always somebody’s programme rather than somebody’s weekend. We work to the date the next trade needs the room.
Interior gutting, in detail
The one the permit decides, not us.
A whole structure inside Fayette County is the job the eight documents above are about. Ask us when we can start rather than how long it takes: the honest answer to the first is weeks and to the second is days.
House & building demolition
Drives and pads, priced by weight.
Older Lexington housing stock means a lot of thick, unreinforced drive and garage-pad concrete. Depth rather than area is what sets the number, and you can measure it at a broken edge.
Concrete removal
Attached to the house, usually.
Rear decks bolted through the siding are the common Lexington version, which means the wall behind the ledger board is part of the conversation before we start rather than after.
Deck & porch demolition
And whatever is still in it.
Garden sheds, detached garages and the slab underneath. Contents are part of the job here as everywhere: you do not have to empty it first.
Shed & outbuilding removal
Priced by the running foot.
Suburban runs, gates and the post concrete. On a Lexington subdivision boundary, whose fence it is matters more often than people expect.
Fence & gate removalThis is the provision that turns a four-week job into a nine-week job, and almost nobody finds out about it until they are already in the queue.
Insurance, grading permit, neighbor notification, asbestos report, owner letter, sewer plug number and plan. Assemble them, apply, and the permit follows. The time is however long the three offices take.
Which is the version most people are quoted against.
The city states that “if a property is determined to be architecturally or historically significant, a 30-day hold is placed on the issuance of the permit application.” That is thirty days on top of everything else, and it is a determination made about your building rather than a box you tick.
Worth asking about on any older Lexington property before you set a date with anyone.
The same published ranges as the main demolition service: a page about one city should not quote you a different number from the page about the service. You get a firm figure before anything starts.
Wood, chain-link, vinyl and metal. Usually priced by the running foot and the post type.
Decks and porches from $400; concrete from $400, where weight and access move it more than area does.
Sheds, barns, garages and small structures, hauled away complete. Contents included.
Walls, drywall, insulation, flooring, ceilings and fixtures. Priced on rooms and what is behind them.
Residential and small commercial. Permits, utility disconnects and disposal volume drive this one.
PLACEHOLDER: three real Fayette County jobs, before and after. Name the road or the part of the county and what was cleared in each caption; that detail is the part a competitor cannot copy.
CROWN’s own published list of the parts of Lexington and Fayette County we work most often.
Outside Fayette County? We demolish across Central Kentucky: Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The permit arrangement described above is this city’s own, and across our eight towns no two of them are the same, which is the whole reason this page exists.
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If yours isn’t here, call: we’d rather answer it before you book than after.
Send photos with the address and the date. On a structure the permit sets the start date, not us, and we say so before you book rather than after.
(859) 213-6077Yes, a wrecking permit, and it is the most involved one in our service area. The city publishes eight requirements: a certificate of insurance naming LFUCG and covering wrecking, a grading permit from Engineering, notification of the addresses within fifty feet of your property line, an asbestos report from a private agency, a letter from the owner authorising the contractor, a sewer plug number from Water Quality, a written step-by-step demolition plan, and the application itself. Crown handles that process as part of the job. Decks, fences and most interior work generally do not need one.
Weeks rather than days, and it is the permit rather than the demolition that decides it. Three separate city offices are involved, the asbestos report has to come back before the application is complete, and if the building is determined to be architecturally or historically significant a thirty-day hold is placed on issuance on top of all of that. Ask any demolition contractor when they can start rather than how long the job takes: the second question has a comfortable answer and the first one has the real answer.
Yes, and it is the single most common demolition job we do here. Walls, drywall, insulation, flooring, ceilings, fixtures and cabinetry out, debris hauled off, the room handed back as a shell. Crown’s published range is $1,500 to $6,000 and up depending on rooms and what is behind the walls. If the building went up before 1978 there is a federal rule that covers the work: it is set out on the interior gutting page and it is worth reading before you get quotes from anyone.
A fence or gate is $200 to $1,200 and up; a deck, porch or concrete slab $400 to $2,500 and up; a shed or outbuilding $500 to $1,800 and up; interior gutting $1,500 to $6,000 and up; a house or small building $4,000 to $15,000 and up. These are the same figures as our main demolition page: the city you are in does not change the price list. What moves the number is what the thing is built of, whether a truck can reach it, the disposal volume, and whether permits and utility disconnects are involved.
We will tell you that you need one and when; we are not an asbestos abatement contractor and we do not pretend otherwise. Lexington requires an asbestos report from a private agency for a wrecking permit regardless of the building type, with proof of abatement if it comes back positive. Where abatement is needed it is a licensed specialist’s job. Saying that plainly costs us the occasional job and is worth it on every other one.
All of Fayette County. The ZIP codes are listed above and the neighborhoods are Crown’s own published list. Lexington is where we are based, so drive time is not a cost on a small job here the way it is further out, which matters most on the cheaper end of this list, a fence or a single deck.
Send two or three photos and the address. If it is a structure, tell us the date you need the site clear by: the permit queue is the part that decides whether that is workable, and we will say so straight away.
