Interior Gutting
Turns, flips and remodels.
Nicholasville has grown fast and a lot of that stock is now at the age where interiors get stripped rather than patched. The room comes back as a shell for the next trade.
Interior gutting, in detailDemolition in Nicholasville, KY
Structures, interiors, sheds, concrete, decks and fences, down and gone. There are two planning offices on Main Street in Nicholasville, and only one of them can permit a demolition at your address.
- City permits come from 517 North Main. The county office is on South Main
- Take down more than half a nonconforming building and you may lose the right to rebuild it
- Debris leaves on our own trucks: one price, not two
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Two offices, one street, and the wrong one will not help you
This is the easiest mistake to make in any of the eight towns we work, and it is made harder by the fact that both offices are real, both are on Main Street, and both deal with demolition.
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Planning offices on Main Street in Nicholasville, and only one of them can permit a demolition inside the city
City of Nicholasville, Planning and Zoning Department, 517 North Main Street, (859) 885-9385
Inside the city: 517 North Main Street. The City of Nicholasville Planning and Zoning Department, on (859) 885-9385, is where a demolition permit for a city address comes from. The city says so in its own tender documents: “awarded contractor must obtain a demolition permit from the City of Nicholasville Planning and Zoning Department.” Its building inspectors sit inside that department rather than being contracted to the county.
Outside it: 121 South Main Street. The Jessamine County to City of Wilmore Joint Planning Department “provides Planning & Zoning and Building Inspection services to the City of Wilmore and unincorporated areas of Jessamine County.” It is physically in Nicholasville. It does not serve Nicholasville.
And here is the trap. The county office publishes a form titled “Demolition Permit Application”. The city does not publish a separate demolition form at all: demolition appears as a cost line on its general building permit application. So a Nicholasville homeowner searching for a demolition form finds the county’s, which looks exactly right and is for the wrong jurisdiction.
What the city form does tell you. It carries a demolition cost line, and states that “silt controls must be installed and approved by this office prior to any inspections”, referencing a notice of intent to disturb land. That is worth knowing before a machine arrives.
Permit fees are not published: the city code says only that applications “shall be accompanied by the applicable fee as set from time to time by the city commission and on file in the city clerk’s office.” Code enforcement is a third, separate office on (859) 885-9467 and does not issue permits. This is a plain-English summary, not legal advice.
Demolition work we do across Jessamine County
Every job here ends the same way: the structure down, the debris on our trucks and off your property. See the full demolition service
Shed & Outbuilding Removal
And the pad underneath.
Garden sheds in the subdivisions, bigger outbuildings on the county ground. Whether the concrete comes out too is the decision that moves this price most.
Shed & outbuilding removal
Deck & Porch Demolition
Usually bolted to the house.
Which means the ledger board and the wall behind it are part of the job. We take it off and show you what is there before we leave.
Deck & porch demolition
Concrete Removal
Drives, patios and slabs.
Priced by weight, not by area, so a small thick pad can cost more than a large thin one, and the depth is the thing worth photographing.
Concrete removal
Fence & Gate Removal
By the running foot.
Suburban runs and gates, and the post concrete with them. On the county ground the runs get long enough that pacing them out is worth doing before you call.
Fence & gate removal
House & Building Demolition
Permit-led, and office-specific.
A whole structure here means establishing first which of the two Main Street offices covers your address. That is the section above, and it is not a detail.
House & building demolitionDemolish more than half of it and you may not be allowed to rebuild it
This is the most consequential thing in the Nicholasville zoning ordinance for anybody taking down part of an older building, and it is not something a demolition quote would normally mention.
Under half
The nonconforming right survives
Plenty of older buildings here are legal nonconforming: they predate the current zoning and are allowed to stay as they are. Partial demolition that stays under the threshold leaves that status intact, and the building can be put back as it was.
Which is usually what the owner assumed would happen either way.
Over half
It may not be
The ordinance provides that where a nonconforming structure “be destroyed by any means to an extent of more than fifty (50%) percent of its replacement cost at the time of destruction, it shall not be reconstructed except in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance.” Conformity may mean smaller, set further back, or not there at all.
And the ordinance counts demolition as destruction: by any means includes on purpose.
Demolition prices in Nicholasville
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.
Fence or gate
$200 to $1,200+
Wood, chain-link, vinyl and metal. Usually priced by the running foot and the post type.
Deck, porch or concrete
$400 to $2,500+
Decks and porches from $400; concrete from $400, where weight and access move it more than area does.
Shed or outbuilding
$500 to $1,800+
Sheds, barns, garages and small structures, hauled away complete. Contents included.
Interior gutting
$1,500 to $6,000+
Walls, drywall, insulation, flooring, ceilings and fixtures. Priced on rooms and what is behind them.
House or building
$4,000 to $15,000+
Residential and small commercial. Permits, utility disconnects and disposal volume drive this one.
- What it is built of
- Timber comes apart. Concrete and masonry have to be broken, loaded and weighed.
- Access
- Whether a truck and trailer reach the work, or it is carried out by hand.
- Disposal volume
- The real driver on most demolition jobs. It is priced in, not added later.
- Permits and utilities
- Structures need disconnects and paperwork. Decks and fences generally do not.
Demolition jobs around Nicholasville
PLACEHOLDER: three real Jessamine 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.
Demolition across Jessamine County
CROWN’s own published list of the parts of Nicholasville and Jessamine County we work most often.
- Downtown Nicholasville
- Brannon Crossing
- Jessamine County
- Wilmore Road
- Catnip Hill
- East Maple
- Harrodsburg Road
Jessamine County ZIP codes40356 · 40340
Outside Jessamine County? We demolish across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Georgetown, 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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Questions we get from Jessamine County
If yours isn’t here, call: we’d rather answer it before you book than after.
Working to a deadline?
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) 213-6077Which office issues a demolition permit in Nicholasville?
For an address inside the city, the City of Nicholasville Planning and Zoning Department at 517 North Main Street on (859) 885-9385. This matters more here than anywhere else we work, because the Jessamine County to City of Wilmore Joint Planning Department sits a few hundred yards away at 121 South Main Street, publishes an actual demolition permit application, and by its own description serves Wilmore and the unincorporated county rather than Nicholasville. Two real offices, one street, and only one of them can help with a city address.
I found a Jessamine County demolition permit form. Can I use it?
Not for a property inside Nicholasville. That form belongs to the county’s joint planning department with Wilmore, which states that it provides planning, zoning and building inspection services to Wilmore and the unincorporated areas of the county. The city runs its own department with its own inspectors. If your address is in the city, start at 517 North Main. If it is out in the county or in Wilmore, the county office is the right one.
What does a demolition permit cost here?
It is not published. The city code says only that permit applications shall be accompanied by the applicable fee as set from time to time by the city commission and on file in the city clerk’s office, which means the figure exists but lives in the clerk’s office rather than on the website. We are not going to quote you a number for it. Ring (859) 885-9385 and they will tell you.
What is the fifty percent rule?
It is a zoning provision that matters a great deal if your building is legally nonconforming: older than the current zoning and allowed to remain as it is. The ordinance provides that if such a structure is destroyed by any means to an extent of more than fifty percent of its replacement cost, it cannot be reconstructed except in conformity with the current ordinance. Demolition counts as destruction. So taking down more than half of an older building can forfeit the right to put it back the way it was, which is worth establishing before rather than after.
What does demolition cost in Nicholasville?
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. Those are the same published figures as our main demolition page. The city’s permit fee is separate and is the city’s.
Which parts of Jessamine County do you cover?
Nicholasville and the surrounding county. The ZIP codes are listed above. On the steeper ground south of the city, access rather than the structure itself often sets the price, so a photo of the approach is worth as much as a photo of the building.
Get a price on your Nicholasville demolition
Send photos and the address. Tell us whether the property is inside the city limits: it decides which of the two Main Street offices permits the job, and getting that right first time saves a fortnight.
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- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
- Clearing several properties? Ask about trade terms