Flooring removal is the first step before any new floor goes down. We cover Modesto, Stockton, Sacramento and Santa Cruz, plus floor removal in San Carlos, San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco on the Bay side. We take the old floor off, clean the glue off the slab, and leave it ready for the installer.
This company has been in the family since 1967. It started out building homes, then spent decades in flooring before the move to demolition and environmental work. We put floors in and pulled them out for years, so old adhesive is familiar ground. When walls and ceilings come out with the floor, that job runs as gutting the space to the studs on the same schedule.
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Every floor has two layers to deal with. On top sits ceramic tile, VCT, glue-down wood, sheet vinyl or commercial carpet. Under it sits thinset, carpet glue, mastic or an old epoxy coating. That bottom layer is the slow part, and it has to come off for the next floor to bond.
Small rooms come up with hand tools and a chipping hammer. Large floors get a machine scraper that shears the material loose in strips. A store or warehouse floor moves much faster that way. We run the same setup for surface preparation in Santa Clara and other South Bay jobs.
Surface preparation is the work that starts once the old floor is off. The slab still holds glue, hard coating, patch material and old paint. UHP water blasting cuts that layer off with water alone at 40,000 psi. The work stays wet, so dust stays down and nothing chemical goes into the room.
Water reaches into low spots and saw cuts where a grinder rides over the top. It strips epoxy, urethane, paint and old sealer off concrete and steel. It also leaves the rough texture, called a profile, that a new coating needs to grip. Tell us what goes down next, and we prep the slab to suit it.
Floors put down before 1980 can hold asbestos, so 9x9 tile and black mastic get flagged. A certified lab tests the tile and the glue as separate samples. The glue can come back positive even when the tile does not. Until that report comes back, the floor stays where it is.
California rules require Cal OSHA registration for asbestos work of 100 square feet or more. We carry CAL OSHA #507 and CSLB #247684. Material that tests positive comes out under asbestos abatement rules, with containment and filtered air. Once the material is gone, we finish the surface preparation and hand you a clean slab.
Free, no-obligation estimates across the Central Valley, the Bay Area and Sacramento.
(209) 652-9206From the first call to the last load hauled off, here is exactly how it goes.
Tell us what needs to come down or come out, and where the property is. You talk to the people who run the work, not a call center.
We walk the job, check access and materials, and flag anything that needs an asbestos survey first. The estimate is free and it holds.
Demolition permits, air district notifications, utility disconnects: we handle the paperwork phase and tell you what the schedule looks like.
The crew does the work, debris gets hauled to the right facilities, and you get a site that is ready for whatever comes next.
Common questions about flooring removal across the Central Valley, the Bay Area and Sacramento. If yours is not here, call and ask. The person who answers runs the jobs.
We handle asbestos removal and abatement for homes and commercial buildings across Northern California. Work runs under sealed containment with negative air machines, and the waste goes to a landfill approved to take it.
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We handle residential demolition across Northern California. That covers whole houses, garages, sheds, and mobile homes. Work starts with an asbestos survey and permits, then the teardown and haul-off. A family company since 1967.
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Commercial demolition for retail buildings, small offices, warehouses and ag structures. We handle the asbestos abatement, the utility cuts, the teardown and the debris loads. Buildings up to two or three stories are our size range.
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Interior demolition for remodels and tenant improvements across the Central Valley and Bay Area. We gut spaces down to the studs and hand back a clean shell your builder can start in.
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We break out and haul away old concrete. Driveways, garage slabs, patios, walkways, foundations and footings all come out the same way. Broken concrete goes to a recycling yard and gets crushed into base rock.
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Fire damage cleanup starts once the fire is out and the building is cold. We take down burned structures and haul the debris to permitted disposal sites. The lot is left clear for your rebuild contractor.
View DetailsAsbestos is where demolition jobs go sideways. We carry CSLB #247684 and CAL OSHA #507, so the abatement and the teardown run under one contractor instead of two schedules.
The company started as a homebuilder in 1967. Decades of flooring work came next, and demolition grew out of it. The same family still answers the phone.
We cover the Central Valley, the Bay Area, Sacramento and Santa Cruz. Modesto, Stockton, San Jose, San Francisco and the cities between them are all regular runs.
We price after looking at the building, the access and the survey. You get a real number before work starts, and the paperwork for every load when it ends.
A building that needs to come down, a space to gut, asbestos in the survey, or a fire to clean up after? Call or send the form. We look at the property, price the job in person, and give you a number that holds. Estimates are free.
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