Professional Demolition Services
Most of a demolition happens before anything comes down — the permit, the utility disconnects, the asbestos survey and the dust control plan. We run all of it, then clear the site and hand back a lot you can build on.
— How it runs
Our Unique Demolition Service Process
Four stages, the same on every job, so you always know what happens next.
Walk-through & Scope
We walk the structure with you and agree exactly what comes out and what stays. On a strip-out that distinction is the whole job, and it is worth being pedantic about while it is still a conversation rather than a saw cut.
Permits, Disconnects & Survey
We file the demolition permit, arrange the utility disconnects and the sign-offs the city will ask to see, and have the structure surveyed for asbestos before anything is disturbed. This is the stage that sets your start date, not ours.
Protection & Controlled Teardown
We protect what stays, set up dust control and track-out at the exit, and take the structure down in a sequence that keeps the site safe and keeps the material separated as it comes out rather than after.
Haul-off & Clear Site
Loads go out separated, the site is cleared and graded to what the next trade needs, and we walk it with you before the machines leave.
— On the job
Demolition Work We Have Photographed
Photographs from Quest jobs. Where a stage of this trade is not in the camera roll yet, the nearest one is, and the caption says what it shows.
Demolition Services by Quest Construction
Demolition is the one trade whose schedule is set by other people, and mostly by the utilities.
A demolition permit is its own application, separate from the building permit for whatever follows it, and no Valley city will issue one until the water, gas and electric services are disconnected and signed off by the utility rather than by us. Those sign-offs are the long pole on almost every job, which is why we start them first and give you a start date only once they are filed.
What comes down is usually the simpler half. We plan the sequence around what stays — a shared wall, a slab you intend to build on, a mature tree, the neighbour's block wall, the services feeding the rooms you are keeping — protect it, and take the rest out in an order that keeps the site safe and the loads separated on the way to the tip.
Why choose Quest Construction?
Permit, utility disconnects and asbestos survey handled before a machine arrives.
Dust control run to Maricopa County rules rather than to whatever the wind allows.
Selective strip-outs where only part of the structure is coming out.
Loads separated and hauled, and the site left ready for the trade that follows.
— FAQs
Demolition Services FAQ
Addressing your demolition questions and concerns.
Do I need a permit to demolish a building?
In every Valley city, yes, and it is a separate permit from the one for whatever you build afterwards. It is also not issued on the strength of an application alone: the city wants evidence the utilities are disconnected and, in most cases, that the structure has been surveyed for asbestos. Some interior strip-outs fall below the threshold, but that is a call for the building department to make, not for a contractor who wants the work.
Why does asbestos come up on a house from the 1980s?
Because the ban was narrower and later than most people assume. Asbestos turns up in popcorn ceilings, in floor tile and the mastic under it, in duct wrap and in some joint compounds, in houses well newer than the 1970s. Maricopa County wants the structure surveyed before demolition, and the survey is cheap next to finding out halfway through a teardown, when the answer is a stopped job.
What happens about dust?
Maricopa County is a federal non-attainment area for airborne particulates, which is why dust control here is a permit condition rather than a courtesy. Larger sites need a dust control permit of their own, and the plan behind it — watering, wind thresholds, track-out control at the exit — is enforceable. We work to it because it is the rule, and because a neighbour who reports it can stop your job for longer than the watering would have taken.
Can you take out part of a house without touching the rest?
Yes, and it is most of what we do. A remodel strip-out means taking a house back to studs and slab while the structure, the services you are keeping and the finishes in the rooms outside the scope all survive. It is slower than a teardown and it is priced accordingly, because the value in it is everything that does not get broken.
How long does a demolition take?
The teardown itself is usually days. The permit and the utility disconnects are usually weeks, and they are almost never on our schedule — the utility sets that date. Anyone quoting you a start date without having filed for the disconnects is quoting you a hope.
Clear the Site Before You Build
Tell Quest Construction what needs to come out, and we will tell you what the permit and the disconnects cost you in time before they cost you in money.