Kitchen Demolition Davie, FL
Kitchen demolition Davie is the one day of a remodel that cannot be undone, and what decides whether it goes well has nothing to do with how hard anybody swings. It is a scheduling question: we do not book the tear-out until the cabinets that replace your kitchen are finished and sitting in our shop.
- Demolition starts
- After cabinets land
- Your house
- Sealed and covered
- Warranty
- 2 years
- License
- CGC1524886
- Licensed & insured: CGC1524886
- 500+ kitchens completed
- 2-year workmanship warranty
- Answered 7 AM–10 PM, 7 days
Almost everyone pictures this job with a sledgehammer in it, and that is the wrong picture.
What decides whether a tear-out goes well happened weeks earlier, in a room you will never see: the shop where your new cabinets are built, finished, wrapped and standing on a pallet. Until they are physically there, taking your kitchen apart buys you nothing. It starts a clock, and nothing you do afterward stops it.
That one rule is the entire difference between two companies quoting the same afternoon of noise. One tears out when the crew has an open week. The other tears out when the parts are in hand. Same tools, same dumpster, and one of them ends with a family eating off a card table in the dining room for six weeks while a cabinet order moves across the country.
The second thing people have backwards is that this is the cheap part of a remodel. It is the fast part. What it costs depends on how deep the scope goes, what is underneath the old kitchen, and how much of the house around it has to be protected from the work. None of those three is a number anybody can give you over the phone.
When Buying the Tear-Out on Its Own Makes Sense in Davie, and When It Does Not
There are two Davie kitchens where buying the tear-out by itself is the right money, and one where it is the most expensive decision in the whole project.
The first is the kitchen you are rebuilding yourself. If you are setting your own cabinets and what you want is the old ones out, the floor up, the plumbing and the power made safe and everything carried away by a crew that is licensed and insured, that is a contained piece of work with a defined end. It is a fair thing to buy on its own, and it is the case this page exists for.
The second is the kitchen that has to come out for a reason that is not a remodel. A supply line that has been weeping behind the sink base since before you owned the house. A floor somebody needs to look at. A buyer's inspector who wants a section of wall opened before closing. In those the tear-out is not the first step of anything. It is what lets somebody find out what is actually there, and the sooner it happens the better.
Where it is the wrong call is the one we turn down, and we turn it down often enough that it belongs in writing. A kitchen should not come out before the kitchen that replaces it exists. That is not a preference, it is arithmetic. Nothing about an empty room speeds up a cabinet build, a countertop template or an appliance delivery, because every one of those clocks starts when the order is placed and not when your sink is in a dumpster. Demolish first and you have not bought a head start. You have bought the right to live without a kitchen for the length of somebody else's production schedule.
The other wrong version is the partial one. Taking the counter off and leaving the cabinets, or gutting one wall and leaving the run around the corner, reads like a sensible way to spread the cost over two years. What it actually produces is a seam between what changed and what did not, and that seam is where the finish work gets expensive later. If the plan really is to do the kitchen in two halves, the honest thing to say out loud is that the second half will cost more than half.
Before any version of it, two things have to be true on the morning of day one. The work has to be closed off from the rest of the house rather than cleaned up afterward, which means a sealed barrier at the opening and hard protection over every floor the crew crosses on the way in. And everything feeding the kitchen has to be dead before a single screw comes out: water off at the valves, the circuits killed at the panel and marked so nobody switches them back, the gas shut and capped if there is gas. Neither of those is a courtesy. They are what separates one loud day from a week of cleaning and a plumber called at four in the afternoon.
The Three Depths a Kitchen Tear-Out Can Go To
Three different jobs go by the same name. They are not the same day, the same price or the same risk, and the fastest way to read three estimates against each other is to work out which of the three each one is describing.
Cabinets, counters and appliances
The shallowest version and the most common one. The counter comes off, the wall and base cabinets come down, the sink and the appliances get disconnected and pulled, and the walls and the floor stay exactly as they are.
Done properly the boxes come off the wall whole instead of in pieces, and that matters more than it sounds. A cabinet taken down in one piece leaves a wall you can patch with filler and paint. The same cabinet taken down with a pry bar leaves torn paper and crushed corners across the whole run, and now you are re-skinning a wall that was never in the scope. This is also the version where almost nothing gets discovered, because almost nothing gets opened, which makes it the one where care is the only variable.
The floor as well
One layer deeper, and the point where the age of the house starts to matter. If the tile was set on a mortar bed, and in houses of that era plenty of it was, it does not come up quietly or quickly, and under it there is either slab or an older floor that somebody tiled straight over.
It is also the one place in a kitchen tear-out where knowing what the floor is made of belongs before the work and not during it. The federal guidance is clear about the principle: material that is intact and left alone is not likely to pose a health risk, while the same material can release fibers once it is disturbed, cut, sanded, sawed or scraped, which is an accurate description of taking up a floor. The same guidance is equally clear about who settles the question. It says a trained and accredited professional should take the sample, and that sampling done incorrectly is worse than leaving the material where it is. In a house of a certain age that is a phone call and a lab, and it happens before the floor comes up.
Down to the studs
The deepest of the three, and the only one that finds surprises. The drywall comes off, the soffit above the wall cabinets comes out, and whatever has been living inside that soffit since the house was built finally becomes visible. Sometimes it is a duct on its way to a bedroom. Sometimes it is a vent stack, or a run of wire nobody documented, or a bearing point. Sometimes it is genuinely empty and the soffit was decoration.
This is the version that turns two days into a week, and knowing that going in is worth more than any discount. It is also the version most likely to cross into permitted work, because the things that live inside a wall are exactly the things a building department reviews.
How the Day Runs in Your House, Step by Step
- We come and look before we price it, at your house, free. We check what is inside the soffit, where the shut-offs are, whether the kitchen has gas, what the floor is sitting on, and how the crew gets from the truck to the room without crossing your good flooring. That walk is what turns a range into a number.
- A written number before anything is touched. One price, itemized, with what is included and what is not, and the haul-away on its own line rather than folded into a total. If a permit or a lab test is part of your scope, it is on that sheet with a price.
- We do not book the date until the replacement is in our shop. Cabinets, counters, sink, hardware. The date moves with the delivery, not with our calendar, and that is the rule the whole schedule hangs on.
- The house gets closed off before anything comes down. A sealed barrier across the opening to the rest of the house, hard board over the floors the crew crosses, and anything staying in the room covered and taped.
- Water, power and gas get shut off and proved dead. Valves closed, circuits off at the panel and labeled, gas capped where there is gas. Nothing gets cut until that is done and checked.
- The kitchen comes out in order. Appliances, then the counter, then the wall cabinets, then the bases. Working top down keeps the weight off anybody's hands and keeps the boxes coming off whole.
- Floor and walls, if that is the scope. Tile up, drywall off, soffit out. This is the stage where anything found gets photographed and sent to you before we go further, not after.
- Everything leaves and the room gets handed back swept. The debris goes out the way it came in, the protection comes up last, and you get an empty room that is clean enough to work in the next morning.
What Kitchen Demolition Costs in Davie, and What Actually Moves the Number
We do not publish a price for a kitchen tear-out, and the reason is arithmetic rather than coyness. The same kitchen can be one day or one week depending on how deep the scope goes and what is under the floor, so a figure printed on a page with no kitchen attached to it is a guess with a dollar sign in front. What we can do is tell you what the estimate is made of, so the three you collect can be read line by line instead of by total.
Depth is the whole spread and everything else is small beside it. Then how much cabinet there is, measured in linear feet, because a kitchen is priced by its run and not by the floor area of the room. Then what the floor is and what is under it, since a tile bed and a floating vinyl are two different days of work. Then access, meaning how far the crew carries a load and whether it goes down a hallway you care about or straight out a slider. Then protection, which scales with how much of your house sits between the truck and the kitchen. Then whatever needs to be tested before it is broken up, and whatever needs a permit, both of which are third-party costs and belong on the estimate as their own lines.
Then the haul-away, which is the line most often left vague and the one worth asking about. What comes out of your kitchen has a real destination with real rules about getting in the door. The county landfill is a Class III site, and it takes bulk waste, yard trash and construction and demolition debris that originated inside Broward County while refusing household garbage, hazardous waste and used oil. That matters to you in one practical way: the old kitchen leaving your driveway is a load somebody has to sort, transport and pay to tip, and a quote that treats it as a rounding error has not priced it.
Your zip code is not on that list. We charge the same in Davie, Sunrise and Pembroke Pines.
What surprises people, in both directions
The thing homeowners expect to be expensive is the smashing, and it is the cheapest hour of the job. The things that actually move the number are the ones that look like nothing on a walkthrough: a soffit with a duct in it, a floor with two layers, a kitchen at the far end of a house with a wood floor between it and the front door. That last one is a protection cost, and it is real, and it is why two identical kitchens in the same neighborhood do not price the same.
Why Choose Us for the Day the Kitchen Comes Out
- We will not book your demolition before your cabinets land. It costs us a slot on the calendar to say that, and it is the single reason our clients spend weeks without a kitchen instead of months.
- The house gets sealed before anything comes down. A barrier at the opening and hard protection on every floor the crew crosses, put in first rather than apologized for later.
- Cabinets come off the wall whole. Slower, and it leaves you a wall that takes filler and paint rather than a wall that takes new drywall.
- Anything we find gets photographed and sent to you before we keep going. A duct in the soffit, a second floor under the first, a pipe where the drawing said there was none. You see it, you hear what it costs, and you decide before the next hour is billed.
- The debris leaves with us. No container sitting in your driveway for a month, no pile in the side yard, no second trip you did not agree to.
The crews work under Gaven Constructions, license CGC1524886, insured, with a two-year workmanship warranty on the installation. Someone answers this phone from 7 AM to 10 PM every day, which tends to matter most on the week the kitchen is out.
Licensed, Insured, and Permitted in Davie
Whether a tear-out needs a permit is decided by what it touches, not by how loud it is. Pulling cabinets and a counter out of an existing footprint is a different scope from taking the drywall off a wall and disconnecting fixtures, and the Town of Davie Building Division treats structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical as separate review disciplines and decides case by case. We do not publish a table telling you which side your job lands on, because that call belongs to them, and following a contractor's table makes their mistake your exposure. What we publish is when you find out: in the written estimate, priced, before you approve anything.
There is a second thing worth checking, and unlike the first one you can check it yourself. Before anybody can pull a permit or book an inspection in Davie, they have to be registered with the Town, and that registration carries a state license or a county certificate of competency, liability insurance, workers' compensation and a business tax receipt. The Town states the consequence in one sentence: contractors with expired credentials are not issued permits and cannot schedule an inspection. That is useful to a homeowner, because it means the paperwork is not a formality between you and your contractor. It is a gate somebody else operates, and the crew standing in your kitchen has either cleared it or has not.
- License
- CGC1524886 Certified General Contractor, verifiable in the Florida DBPR licensee search.
- Insurance
- Insured and bonded Certificates are available before any work is scheduled.
- Workmanship warranty
- 2 years On installation labor. Most of this market publishes one.
- Permits and design
- Priced before approval Requirements vary by project scope. Any required permitting, drawings, engineering, or design services are identified and priced before the project is approved.
- Who contracts the work
- Gaven Constructions Kitchen Remodeler Davie was acquired by Gaven Constructions, a licensed contractor since 2015. Every estimate and invoice is issued in that name, which is what puts the license behind the job.
Common Questions
How much does kitchen demolition cost in Davie, FL?
We quote it after we have seen the kitchen, and the averages you find online are less useful than they look. Most of them are priced per square foot of room, which measures the wrong thing: a kitchen's tear-out is set by how many linear feet of cabinet come off the wall, how deep the scope goes and what is under the floor, and a large room with a small kitchen in it prices nothing like a small room packed wall to wall. The other reason an average misleads is that the same phrase covers three different jobs. Cabinets and counters only, cabinets plus the floor, and everything down to the studs are not variations of one price, they are three separate days. When you collect estimates in Davie, the question that sorts them out is which of those three each one assumed, followed by whether the haul-away is a line on the sheet or a sentence in the fine print.
Can I demo my own kitchen in Davie?
Plenty of people do, and the parts that go wrong are rarely the parts they worried about. Taking cabinets off a wall is not hard. What catches homeowners is everything around it: getting the water genuinely off rather than mostly off, finding out which breaker actually feeds the counter outlets, taking a counter off in one piece instead of dropping it on the base cabinets, and discovering that a soffit had a duct in it after the sawzall was already through. Then the debris, which is the part almost nobody plans for. A kitchen fills more of a truck than it looks like it will, it cannot go out with the household trash, and in Broward it has to reach a site that accepts construction and demolition material. If you are doing the rest of the build yourself and only want the tear-out handled, that is a service we sell on its own, and it is usually cheaper than the weekend you were going to spend on it.
How long should kitchen demolition take in a Davie house?
The shallow version, where cabinets and counters come out and the floor and walls stay, is normally the shortest stage of the whole project. Add the floor and it grows, sometimes by a lot, because old tile set in a mortar bed comes up in pieces the size of your hand and there is a second stage of scraping after the tile is gone. Go down to the studs and the honest answer is that nobody can tell you until the soffit is open, which is why we photograph what we find and send it to you rather than absorbing it quietly. What we can commit to is the shape of the day: your house is sealed before anything comes down, and the room is swept and handed back at the end rather than left open over a weekend.
How long will I be without a kitchen in Davie after the demolition?
That number is decided before the first cabinet comes off the wall, and it is decided by the order things happen in rather than by how fast anybody works. We do not schedule a tear-out until the cabinets and the countertop for your kitchen are finished and physically sitting in our shop. Waiting for a delivery is time you spend with a working kitchen. Waiting for the same delivery after the tear-out is time you spend washing dishes in the bathroom, and it is the same number of days either way. That is the whole argument, and it is worth putting to anybody else you are talking to in Davie as a direct question: when do you demolish, and what has to be here first? An answer that involves their calendar rather than your materials tells you which of the two situations you are buying.
Do I need a permit for kitchen demolition in Davie?
It depends on what the work touches, and the determination belongs to the Town of Davie Building Division rather than to us. Pulling cabinets and a counter out and putting new ones back in the same places is a different question from opening walls, disconnecting fixtures or moving anything that is wired or plumbed, and the Town reviews structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical separately. We will not print a list of which jobs are exempt, because a homeowner following a contractor's list is carrying somebody else's mistake. What we commit to instead is timing: whatever your scope needs by way of permits or drawings appears in the written estimate with a price, before you approve anything and before any money moves.
What happens if kitchen demolition in Davie is done without a permit?
Nothing, for a while, which is exactly what makes it a bad trade. The consequences arrive later and they arrive somewhere inconvenient. The common one is a sale: a buyer's inspector finds work with no record behind it, and closing now depends on resolving that, which usually means opening finished surfaces to show somebody what is behind them. The second is insurance, where a claim on a room that was altered without a record is a conversation you do not want to be having on the day you need the coverage. The third is simply that permitted work in Davie gets inspected before it gets covered, and an inspection is the only moment where a mistake in your wall is free to fix. Skipping it does not remove the risk from the project. It moves the risk onto you and takes the price of it off the estimate, which is why the cheaper quote often is not.
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Taking the old kitchen out is the first day of a larger job for most people. See the rest of what Kitchen Remodeler Davie does, or find the job you actually have in the full list of kitchen remodeling services.
Tell us when your cabinets are due, and we will tell you when we demolish.
If you do not have cabinets on order yet, that is the more useful conversation and it is the one we would rather have first. If you already do, give us the promised date and we will work backward from it instead of forward from an open week on our calendar. Either way you will hear what the tear-out involves in your house, what we expect to find under the floor, and what leaves in the truck, before anybody quotes you a number.
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