Structures, interiors, sheds, concrete, decks and fences, down and gone. Richmond is the one town here that publishes its entire demolition application, so this page can tell you exactly what it asks for.
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Most cities make you ring up to find out what a demolition permit involves. Richmond puts the form online, so here is what is on it.
Four documents, named on the form. It asks for “a copy of liability insurance, owner approval of demolition, demo plan, and an asbestos report (where applicable)” with the application. Four items against Lexington’s eight, which tells you something about how differently two neighboring cities can treat the same job.
Utilities are yours to handle. The form states that “it is the responsibility of the Contractor/Owner to have all utilities located, marked, and disconnected.” That is not a formality on a structure: it is arranging separate visits from separate utilities, and it is the step most likely to sit unmoved for a fortnight.
And so is the debris. The form is blunt about it: “it is the responsibility of the Contractor/Owner to remove all demolition debris from the site; it will not be removed by the City of Richmond.” Which is the whole of what we do anyway, and worth checking is in any quote you take here.
Two dates to know. Payment is due at submission and the city asks you to “allow five (5) business days for processing, once all required documents are received.” Once issued, permits “become void if work does not begin within 180 days or is suspended at any time for over 180 days.” Six months is generous, but it is not indefinite: worth knowing if you are permitting ahead of a sale.
The department also requires a City of Richmond business license number from the contractor, and if the property is in the H1 historic district the Architectural Review Board must be contacted before any work proceeds. This is a plain-English summary of a published form, not legal advice; Building Inspection on (859) 625-6428 is the authority on your address.
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 the $150 form is written for.
Richmond’s demolition permit application is a structure form: liability insurance, owner approval, a demo plan and an asbestos report where applicable. It is short, and it is public.
House & building demolition
Rentals, turns and student housing.
Madison County has a large rental stock and interior strip-outs between tenants are a steady part of what we do here. The room comes back as a shell ready for the next trade.
Interior gutting, in detail
Barns and outbuildings, mostly.
Out past the bypass the outbuildings get bigger, and the slab under them becomes the fork in the price rather than an afterthought.
Shed & outbuilding removal
Drives, pads and foundations.
Priced by weight rather than area, which surprises people on a small thick slab and pleases them on a large thin one.
Concrete removal
Rear decks and screened porches.
Attached decks leave a wall that needs closing up. We take the ledger off and show you what is behind it before we leave the site.
Deck & porch demolition
Long runs, out of town.
Madison County boundaries run long, and fence removal is priced by the running foot, so pacing it out puts you in a band before you call.
Fence & gate removalMadison County has three separate permit authorities inside it, and getting this wrong costs you a fortnight rather than a phone call.
The department states its own boundary plainly: “this department does not review plans or perform inspections outside of the City of Richmond limits in Madison County or the City of Berea.” Inside the line, 239 West Main Street on (859) 625-6428 is your office.
Few departments publish their own exclusions this clearly. It is worth the credit.
Unincorporated Madison County is the county’s Office of Planning and Codes Enforcement, whose building permit covers anyone intending to “construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the occupancy” of a structure. Berea runs its own. Neither is reachable through the city department.
Check which side of the line your address is on before you fill anything in.
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 Madison 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 Richmond and Madison County we work most often.
Outside Madison County? We demolish across Central Kentucky: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, 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) 213-6077The published fee on the city’s demolition permit application is $150, payable at submission. Richmond is the only one of the eight cities we serve that publishes its demolition permit fee and requirements in full on a downloadable form, which makes it much the easiest place to know what you are getting into. The form asks for liability insurance, owner approval of the demolition, a demo plan and an asbestos report where applicable.
You or your contractor, not the city. The application states that it is the responsibility of the contractor or owner to have all utilities located, marked and disconnected. On a whole structure this is usually the slowest item on the list, because it means separate arrangements with separate utilities that each work to their own schedule. Start it early: it is the single most common reason a demolition start date slips in this city.
No, and it says so on the form: removing all demolition debris from the site is the contractor’s or owner’s responsibility and will not be done by the City of Richmond. That is the part of the job we are actually set up for: we run our own trucks and dumpsters, so the haul-off is priced into the number rather than left as a problem you discover afterwards.
No, and this catches people out. Richmond’s Building Inspection department states that it does not review plans or perform inspections outside the city limits, in Madison County or in Berea. Unincorporated Madison County has its own Office of Planning and Codes Enforcement whose building permit expressly covers demolishing a structure, and Berea runs its own department. Check which of the three your address falls under before you fill anything in.
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 published figures as our main demolition page. The city permit fee is separate from the work and is the city’s, not ours.
Richmond and the surrounding county. The ZIP codes are listed above. Out past the bypass the jobs tend to be outbuildings and long fence runs rather than interiors, and both of those travel well because they are a single visit rather than a programme.
Send photos and the address. Tell us whether the property is inside the city limits: it decides which office permits the job, and it is the first thing we check rather than the last.
