Selective Demolition Contractor — Port St. Lucie, FL
Targeted removal where the rest of the building stays standing — additions, bays, walls, roofs and slabs.
Selective demolition is the work of removing exactly one part of a structure while everything around it keeps carrying load. It is the difference between a renovation that goes to plan and one that stops for three weeks waiting on an engineer.
We take down failed additions, enclosed porches, damaged bays, mezzanines, roof sections and interior structural walls throughout Port St. Lucie, Stuart, Palm City and the surrounding Treasure Coast. Every job starts with the drawings and the shoring plan, not the machine.
This is also the service most often required after hurricane or fire damage, where part of a home is sound and part of it has to come out cleanly so the rebuild can tie back into good structure.
SCOPE WE HANDLE.
- Removal of additions, Florida rooms and enclosed porches
- Load-bearing wall removal with temporary shoring
- Partial roof and truss section removal
- Structural steel and mezzanine removal
- Partial slab and footing removal
- Fire- and storm-damage cutback to sound structure
- Coordination with your engineer and building department
OUR PROCESS.
- 01
Drawings and engineering
We work from the structural detail. If you do not have one, we tell you before we quote.
- 02
Shoring plan
Temporary support installed and verified before a single connection is cut.
- 03
Isolate
Utilities, protected finishes and the boundary between what stays and what goes.
- 04
Controlled removal
Cut, brace, lower and load — no uncontrolled drops next to standing structure.
- 05
Clean edge turnover
Square, clean tie-in surfaces for the rebuild crew.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED.
What is the difference between selective and interior demolition?
Interior demolition removes finishes and non-structural elements. Selective demolition removes structural pieces while the building stays standing, which requires engineering and shoring.
Do I need an engineer?
For anything load-bearing, yes. Building departments in St. Lucie and Martin County will ask for the detail before issuing the permit.
Can you cut back fire damage without demolishing the whole house?
That is one of the most common selective jobs we run. We remove to sound structure and leave clean tie-in points.
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