Shed & Outbuilding Removal
Barns and equipment stores.
Bourbon County is farming country and the outbuildings reflect it. Bigger structures, thicker pads, and access that decides the method more than the size does.
Shed & outbuilding removalDemolition in Paris, KY
Structures, barns, interiors, concrete, decks and fences taken down and hauled off. In the Paris historic district a demolition permit is not a lesser thing than a building permit: the ordinance says it is the same thing.
- In the historic district, demolition is reviewed like new construction
- The review board has thirty days to vote once it is notified
- One joint office permits for Paris, Millersburg, North Middletown and the county
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In the historic district, a demolition permit is a building permit
Most towns treat demolition as a lesser permit than construction. Paris puts it in writing that it is not, and it is the clearest such provision in our area.
30
Days the Board of Architectural Review has to vote on an application in the historic district, and a demolition permit counts as one
City of Paris, Zoning Code, Chapter 80, § 80.201, historic district and Board of Architectural Review
The provision itself. The zoning code states that “for purposes of this section, an application for a demolition permit shall be deemed the same as an application for a building permit and shall be subject to the same procedures.” There is no lighter-touch route for taking something down.
And nothing issues without the certificate. The same section provides that “the Building Inspector shall issue no building permits for the construction, destruction, alteration, moving of any structure or premises… except as expressly authorized… and after the issuance of a certificate of appropriateness before a building permit.” The word destruction is doing real work in that sentence.
Thirty days is the clock. On an application in a historic district the building inspector “shall promptly notify the Board of Architectural Review”, and the board, five members appointed by the Mayor, must “vote to approve or disapprove the application within thirty (30) days after notification.” That is a bounded wait rather than an open one, which is better than it could be, but it is thirty days you have to plan around.
Outside the district it is an ordinary permit. Most of Paris and all of the county ground is not in it. The first question is simply whether your address is, and the office below can tell you in a phone call.
The county zoning ordinance has no demolition permit procedure of its own, so the route above is the city’s. This is a plain-English summary of a published ordinance, not legal advice, and the joint planning office is the authority on whether your property sits inside the district.
Demolition work we do across Bourbon 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
House & Building Demolition
And the district question first.
A whole structure in Paris means establishing whether it sits in the historic district, because that adds a review step with its own clock rather than a box to tick.
House & building demolition
Concrete Removal
Feed aprons, pads and drives.
Priced by weight rather than area. Agricultural pours are commonly thicker than residential, which is the thing that moves this number.
Concrete removal
Interior Gutting
Houses and downtown units.
Interior strip-outs come back as a shell ready for the next trade. Downtown units frequently sit inside the historic district, so ask before you plan a date.
Interior gutting, in detail
Deck & Porch Demolition
Rear decks and porches.
Attached ones leave a wall behind the ledger board. We take it off and show you what is there rather than leaving you to find out.
Deck & porch demolition
Fence & Gate Removal
Long runs on county ground.
Priced by the running foot and the post type. Bourbon County boundaries are long enough that pacing them out puts you in a band before you ring.
Fence & gate removalNo same-day permits, and inspections run two days a week
Paris is unusually candid about its own turnaround, and the published detail is worth building into a programme rather than discovering.
What is published
Seven to ten days, Tuesdays and Thursdays
The joint planning office asks applicants to “allow a seven to ten (7 to 10) business days for processing”, runs “building inspections Tuesdays & Thursdays”, and states plainly: “no same day permits or inspections.” Payment is cash, check or credit card.
Two working weeks before a permit, on top of any historic district review.
Which office
One, covering four jurisdictions
Bourbon County Joint Planning at 525 High Street on (859) 987-2150 provides planning and zoning services for “the Cities of Paris, Millersburg, and North Middletown, and Bourbon County”. Like Georgetown and unlike Frankfort, one office covers the lot.
The city’s own engineering department redirects building permit applicants here.
Demolition prices in Paris
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 Paris
PLACEHOLDER: three real Bourbon 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 Bourbon County
CROWN’s own published list of the parts of Paris and Bourbon County we work most often.
- Downtown Paris
- Main Street
- Bourbon County
- Millersburg
- North Middletown
- Lexington Road
- Cynthiana Road
Bourbon County ZIP codes40361 · 40362
Outside Bourbon County? We demolish across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester and Versailles. 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 Bourbon 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) 213-6077Is my Paris property in the historic district?
The joint planning office on (859) 987-2150 can tell you, and it is the first thing to establish because it changes the process rather than just the paperwork. Inside the district, the zoning code deems an application for a demolition permit to be the same as an application for a building permit, and no permit issues without a certificate of appropriateness from the Board of Architectural Review first. Most of Paris and all of the surrounding county ground is outside it.
How long does the historic district review take?
The board has thirty days from notification to vote to approve or disapprove. That is a bounded wait rather than an open one, which is better than some, but it sits on top of the office’s ordinary processing time of seven to ten business days. So on a historic district structure you are realistically planning six weeks out rather than two, and it is much better to know that at the start than three weeks in.
Who issues the permit?
Bourbon County Joint Planning at 525 High Street in the Paris Municipal Center, on (859) 987-2150. It covers Paris, Millersburg, North Middletown and Bourbon County together, which makes the jurisdiction question easier here than in most of our area. The city’s own engineering department redirects building permit applicants to that office. Note that it publishes no same-day permits or inspections, and runs building inspections on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What does the demolition permit cost?
Not published, and we are not going to guess it. The office has a demolition application form online but it is a scanned image with no readable text, and no fee schedule is published on the site. The city’s own building permit template leaves the cost line blank against a cost and fee schedule. Ring (859) 987-2150 and ask, and ask at the same time whether your address is inside the historic district, because that is the answer that actually shapes your timeline.
What does demolition cost in Paris?
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 town you are in does not change the price list, only the permit route.
Do you take down barns and farm buildings?
Yes, and in Bourbon County that is a large part of it. Barns, equipment stores, run-in sheds and the pads under them. Two things decide the price out here: whether a loaded truck can get in and back out, and whether the concrete comes out with the structure. We quote both versions of the second one so you are choosing rather than discovering.
Get a price on your Paris demolition
Send photos and the address. If it is a structure, ask the planning office on (859) 987-2150 whether you are in the historic district before you fix a date: thirty days of review is much easier to plan for than to absorb.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
- Clearing several properties? Ask about trade terms