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Miami-Dade County

Residential Demolition

Single-family homes, additions, garages and accessory structures, cleared to grade.

Who usually calls

A teardown before a rebuild. The buyer cares about the permit timeline, the asbestos survey and how fast the lot is clean.

Residential demolition is a teardown with a rebuild behind it, which makes the schedule the product. The lot has to be clear, graded and documented by the date the new permit needs it, and almost everything that delays that date happens before a machine arrives.

The sequence is survey, notification, utility disconnects, permit, then demolition. Each of those has an owner and a duration, and they do not all run in series: the asbestos notification and the utility disconnects can and should run while the permit is in review. Running them one after another is how a four-week job becomes a ten-week one.

What comes out matters as much as what comes down. Concrete, clean wood, metal and mixed debris go to different places at different rates, and separating at source is usually cheaper than paying a transfer station to do it. The lot is handed over graded, with the disposal tickets, so the next contractor is not inheriting a surprise.

Licensing, plainly

This scope is licensed contracting in Florida, and ISP GROUP LLC does not hold that licence today. So we are not offering to perform it and you should not read this page as a bid for it. What is written here is what the work involves and what the county requires, which is true whoever does it.

What we can do now: walk the site, scope and document the work, handle the survey, the notification and the permit paperwork, bring in a licensed contractor who contracts that part directly with you, and do the clearance, haulage and disposal ourselves. When you take bids, ask every contractor for a licence number and verify it on the issuing register.

Excavator with a sorting grapple working a single-storey South Florida house, debris separated into streams.
Excavator with a sorting grapple working a single-storey South Florida house, debris separated into streams. Generated footage, not a job of ours and not a recording of one. It shows what the scope looks like. Our own work goes up as clients release it.

Scope

What is in the job.

Included

  • Asbestos survey arranged and the federal notification filed
  • Utility disconnect coordination: power, water, sewer and gas, each with its own authority and lead time
  • Demolition permit application and the county review followed until it is issued
  • Structure down, slab and footings out where the scope says so
  • Debris separated, hauled and disposed, tickets retained
  • Lot graded, erosion control where required, photographs of the cleared state
Excavator with a sorting grapple working a single-storey South Florida house, debris separated into streams.
Licensed stock photograph of the same kind of work.

What moves the price

We do not publish a rate for this, because a number given without seeing the site is either useless or untrue. These are the things that decide it.

  • Whether the slab and footings come out or stay. This is the single biggest swing on most residential jobs
  • Disposal weight. Concrete and tile are priced by the ton and the house decides the tonnage
  • Access for a machine and for trucks, and how far the material has to be carried to reach them
  • Trees, pools and accessory structures, each of which may carry its own permit
  • Abatement if the survey finds anything, which adds a licensed scope and its own schedule

Permits

Where this scope sits with the county.

A full residential teardown needs a demolition permit, and the utility disconnects have to be evidenced before it is issued. Miami-Dade requires an asbestos survey before demolition regardless of the year the building went up, and the federal NESHAP notification runs ten working days from a correctly filed notice. That clock runs in parallel with everything else, so it is filed first, not last.

Have this ready

  • The folio number and the survey if there is one
  • Confirmation of whether the slab, the driveway and the pool are in scope
  • Access photographs, including the street frontage and any gate or easement a truck has to use
  • The date the rebuild permit needs a clear lot, so the whole sequence can be worked backwards from it

None of it is required to get a visit booked. All of it makes the number firmer and the date earlier.

The full permit sequence, with sources, is on the permits and asbestos page.

Questions

What people ask about residential demolition.

How long does it take?

The demolition is usually days. The paperwork is usually weeks, and the asbestos notification alone is ten working days. The honest answer is the date the notification is filed plus the permit review, and that is why it is filed first.

Does the pool have to come out too?

Only if the scope says so, and a pool is its own line with its own backfill and compaction standard. It is worth deciding before the estimate rather than after.

What happens to the trees?

Miami-Dade protects some of them, and removing a protected tree without the separate approval is a different and more expensive problem than the demolition. Mark them on the walk-through.

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