We are based in Riverbank, about eight miles from downtown Modesto. Your demolition permit comes from the City of Modesto Building Safety Division at 1010 10th Street. Your asbestos notification goes to the Valley Air District office on Enterprise Way in Modesto. We have run this work as a family company since 1967.
We handle asbestos removal and abatement, interior demolition, house teardowns, and commercial building demolition. Houses and two to three story commercial buildings are our sweet spot. Our licenses are CSLB #247684 and CAL OSHA #507. Call (209) 652-9206 and tell us what needs to come down.
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About half of Modesto's homes went up before 1980. Census figures put the median build year at 1979, and the 1970s were the biggest decade. Materials from those years often hold asbestos in floor tile, mastic, popcorn ceilings, duct wrap, and siding. That shapes how a Modesto teardown gets planned.
Stanislaus County sits inside the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Its Northern Region office is at 4800 Enterprise Way in Modesto. The district wants a signed asbestos notification 10 working days before demolition begins. That form travels with a survey report from a Cal/OSHA Certified Asbestos Consultant.
In California, testing is a separate trade from abatement, so you hire the consultant on your own. Once the report exists, our asbestos abatement work in Modesto pulls the regulated material under CAL OSHA #507. The district then issues a Demolition Permit Release Form. Modesto Building Safety asks for that release before the demolition permit is issued.
The College Area runs between McHenry Avenue and Tully Road, from Orangeburg Avenue down to Needham Street. Its blocks hold bungalows, craftsman cottages, mid century ranch houses, and a lot of Modesto ash trees. La Loma and Downtown carry the same mix, plus Victorian and Italianate stock from the 1870 townsite. Lots there are narrow, and the house next door is often close.
Tight sites change the method. We hand strip interiors first, then bring in smaller machines and haul out in tighter loads. Our house demolition around Modesto covers the full teardown to slab, plus concrete demolition on driveways and foundations.
The air district treats one building with four or fewer living units as a residence. Those often sit outside the federal asbestos rule. The exclusion goes away when the building was used commercially or sits on mixed use land. Five units and up in Modesto follow the full notification path.
Modesto's commercial buildings skew old along the main corridors. McHenry Village opened on October 15, 1953, on 35 acres between Granger and Norwegian avenues. Strip retail and offices from that era still line McHenry Avenue. Interior demolition there usually takes a tenant space back to the shell.
Downtown has a bigger change coming. Stanislaus County's new $352 million courthouse is going up at 10th and H streets. The old courthouse block sits between 11th, 12th, H and I streets. It holds the Hall of Records and the county's former jail.
The city plans to buy that block and rebuild it once the move happens. Public workshops have pushed for apartments over ground floor shops, plus reuse of the Hall of Records. Modesto's Downtown Master Plan points the same way, toward mixed use infill on built out blocks. Houses and two to three story commercial buildings fit our equipment, and we cover demolition in Stockton too.
After a house fire in Modesto, the damaged structure has to come out before anything gets rebuilt. We handle the demolition and the haul off. Charred framing and burned finishes come out down to sound material. Older Modesto homes add asbestos to the job, because burned material still falls under the same district rules.
Flooring removal is its own problem in Modesto's older commercial buildings. Sheet vinyl and tile from the 1960s and 1970s often sit in black mastic. We use ultra high pressure water blasting at 40,000 psi to strip flooring and adhesive off the slab. That leaves a clean surface for whatever goes down next.
Land and site clearing is the other piece we run around Modesto. We take brush and leftover structures off a parcel and haul the debris out. The Beard Industrial District alone covers roughly 2,000 acres of commercial and industrial ground. Parcels like that turn over, and the old structures come off first.
Communities & areas we serve around Modesto: Downtown, College Area, La Loma, Airport District, Village One, Wycliffe, Bret Harte, Coffee-Sylvan.
Modesto ZIP codes served: 95350, 95351, 95354, 95355, 95356, 95358.
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.
View Details 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 DetailsA few of the questions we hear most around Modesto. If yours is not here, call and ask. The person who answers runs the jobs.
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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