Interior Demolition
Strip-outs and gut demolition, taken back to the shell the next trade needs.
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What Breakara takes on
Four things, and they are usually the same job at different scales. A kitchen that has to be back to the studs by Friday and a garage that has to be gone by the end of the month are the same problem asked twice: what comes out, what stays, and how any of it leaves the site.
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Concrete Removal
Sidewalks, slabs, driveways, steps and foundations, broken out and carried off the site.
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Debris Removal
Loaded, carried and delivered to a registered facility, planned into the job.
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Building Demolition
Whole structures, where the filing and the sequence come long before the machine.
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The size of job Breakara takes
A single room. One basement floor. A driveway slab. A shop stripped over a weekend, a whole floor of an office, or a structure that comes down entirely.
A small residential job runs through the same walk-through and the same sequence as anything larger. There is no size below which the process quietly becomes something less careful, and no minimum you have to reach before the phone is worth picking up.
If you are wondering whether your job is big enough to call about, it is.
How a Breakara job runs
Every job Breakara takes runs through the same three stages, whether it is one bathroom or a whole structure. Nothing about the order is negotiable, because the order is what keeps the rest of the building standing.
The walk-through
Somebody looks at the space before anybody prices it. What is coming out, what is staying, what is above and below, how a truck gets near it, and whether the work needs a filing before it can begin. That visit is what turns an estimate into a price.
The sequence
We bring material down in the order that keeps the remaining structure stable, not the order that is quickest. Disconnections first, then soft strip, then structure. On a shared wall the sequence is the whole job, and we settle it before anything opens up.
The clear-out
We load the debris, carry it and deliver it to a facility licensed to receive it, as part of the work rather than as an errand at the end. Our protection comes out last, and we leave the space ready for whoever is coming next.
Tell us what is coming out
Describe the space and what has to go. You will be told what is involved, whether it is permitted work, and what has to happen before a start date means anything.
Where Breakara works
Breakara serves all five New York City boroughs: the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Where a job sits does not decide whether it gets done. It decides how, because access sets the method, the number of days and the price long before the scope does.
The Bronx
Attached and semi-attached brick walk-ups on narrow streets, where a party wall is shared with the neighbour and kerb space for a container has to be arranged rather than assumed.
Queens
Prewar elevator buildings and two-family houses, where most of what comes out leaves through a service door, on hours the building sets rather than the job.
Manhattan
Prewar blocks where the freight elevator and the building hours set the schedule, and where kerb space in front of the door is the scarcest thing on the job.
Brooklyn
Brownstone and brick row houses with high stoops, where the carry route runs down a full flight before it reaches the pavement and the front of the building is the only way in.
Staten Island
Detached frame houses with their own driveways, which is the one part of the city where a machine and a container can usually get close to the work.
One call, anywhere in the five boroughs
Interior strip-outs, whole structures, concrete and the debris that comes with all of it, right across New York City.
What decides the price, and what decides the date
What is coming out
Volume and material. A gut of a given size produces a knowable amount of debris, and the number of containers and trips is arithmetic rather than a guess. Concrete is the exception that catches people out: it is heavy out of all proportion to its volume.
How it leaves
Access, every time. A slab a machine can reach is a different job from the same slab reached through a house, and material sized for a stair is not material sized for a driveway. This is the single biggest difference between two jobs that look identical on paper.
Whether it needs a filing
A full demolition needs a Department of Buildings permit, and interior work beyond minor cosmetic removal generally does too. That is real lead time. It moves the start date and nothing on site can shorten it.
Questions people ask before they call
Which boroughs does Breakara work in?
All five: the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Where a job sits changes how the access is planned and what it costs, not whether the work gets done.
Do you take care of the permit?
A full demolition filing is prepared by a registered design professional, and an asbestos assessment, where one is required, is the property owner's filing. What we do is tell you on the first call whether what you are describing is permitted work, so you start that process at the right time rather than discovering it halfway through. Where your architect or engineer is already engaged, we work to their filing and their sequence.
Is the debris included, or is that separate?
It is part of the job. Construction and demolition debris cannot leave a New York site with the trash. It goes with a registered carter to a facility licensed to receive it, so we price the containers and the trips into the work rather than adding them at the end.
Can I get a price over the phone?
You can get a real range and an honest description of what the job involves. A price comes after somebody has seen the space. The things that move a demolition price are access, what is structural and what the building's own rules allow, and none of them is visible from a description.
How soon can you start?
If the work does not need a filing, the constraint is the schedule. If it does, the start date follows the filing, and you will be told that on the first call rather than after a deposit.
Tell us what is coming out, and where it is.
You will get a straight answer on the first call, including whether it needs a filing before it can start.