Asbestos removal, permit, utility shutoffs, teardown, foundation removal and backfill. One fixed written price for Syracuse homeowners, estates, landlords and builders.
What a Backwell house demolition in Syracuse includes.
Most Syracuse house teardowns land between $9,000 and $35,000. A single-story house with no basement and no asbestos is at the low end, a standard two-story with a basement runs about $14,000 to $24,000, and larger homes or houses with asbestos and a full basement run $20,000 to $35,000. A detached garage, barn or pool adds about $2,000 to $6,000. You get one fixed written price before anything starts.
Yes. Under New York State Department of Labor Industrial Code Rule 56, an asbestos survey by a state-certified asbestos inspector is required before a building is demolished. Any asbestos found has to be removed by a state-licensed asbestos contractor before the teardown. We do the abatement as part of the job. We do not test: send the survey report if you have one, or untested material is priced as presumed asbestos.
Yes. In Syracuse, the demolition permit comes from the City of Syracuse Central Permit Office (300 S. State St.). We file the application, line up the utility shutoffs it asks for, and handle the inspections.
The foundation and basement walls come out. The hole is backfilled in lifts and rough graded so the lot is level and ready to seed, sell or build on.
From a signed contract to mobilization is typically 2 to 5 weeks, mostly waiting on the survey, abatement and permit. Equipment time on the property runs days, not weeks, for most houses. The schedule comes with the written price.
Yes. Fire jobs follow the same survey and permit steps. If insurance is involved, the written price breaks out the scope line by line so it can go straight to the adjuster.
Yes. Send the address and a few photos and you get a written fixed price in 1 hour. No obligation. We do not work hourly or cost-plus on residential jobs, so you get a number you can plan against.
NYS DOL Public Work registered, OSHA 30, NYSDEC SWPPP compliant, EPA Lead-Safe Certified, SAM Federal Contractor (CAGE 16AD7). GL and WC certificates available on request.
Requirements as published by the permit office; they can change. Source: the City of Syracuse Central Permit Office (300 S. State St.).
Houses that are designated Protected Sites or sit in a Preservation District need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Syracuse Landmark Preservation Board before a demolition permit is issued.
The regional land bank here is the Greater Syracuse Land Bank.
Syracuse sits at the south end of Onondaga Lake in the heart of Onondaga County, on a landscape where the flat lake plain meets the rising Onondaga Escarpment. Native soils across the city's commercial corridors are a mix of Honeoye silt loam and Palmyra gravelly loam on the higher ground, University Hill, Westcott, Strathmore, with Lamson and Minoa fine sandy loams on the flats near the lake and muck pockets in the former wetland legacy areas around Ley Creek.
Soil type decides how the basement hole is backfilled and compacted so the lot does not settle later.
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