Commercial Demolition in HolidayLicensed C-11855 Specialty Contractor
- Licensed C-11855 · CUC041521
- Family owned since 1978
- We own the transfer station
- Serving 4 Tampa Bay counties
Holiday, FL
Commercial Demolition in Holiday
Commercial demolition is a permitting and logistics job as much as a machinery job — the license is what lets us be on the site at all, and the sequence is what keeps everyone else on schedule. Our yard is about 40 minutes away, and we are licensed C-11855 and CUC041521.
Dead retail along US 19 is the commercial trade in Holiday: single-story strip buildings and outparcels from the 1960s–70s boom, nearly all of it pre-1981 and needing the asbestos survey before Pasco County Central Permitting will issue. These are quick, repeatable knockdowns, and backhauling the slab and block to our own station rather than a Pasco gate is what makes the forty-minute run pay.
Holiday generates high-volume small demolition: condemned and fire-damaged houses, investor teardowns on cheap lots, mobile home removals, and dead retail coming off the US 19 corridor. These are quick, repeatable jobs and we run them on a production rhythm.
We work as a licensed specialty demolition contractor (C-11855) with underground utility certification (CUC041521), which covers both the structure coming down and the service disconnection and site work that almost always comes with it. Commercial jobs rarely stop at the walls: there are grease traps, hydrants, laterals and abandoned services under most of these sites, and the underground license means we handle them under the same contract.
Every commercial demolition starts the same way regardless of size: an asbestos survey — required for commercial structures before a demolition permit is issued, with NESHAP notification where the findings demand it — then utility locates, disconnect confirmations, permitting, and an engineered take-down sequence with a protection plan for everything that stays.
What it costs
What drives a Holiday quote
| Scope of job | What drives the number |
|---|---|
| Small commercial building, under 5,000 sq ft | Construction type, asbestos findings, and site constraints |
| Mid-size structure, 5,000 – 20,000 sq ft | Steel and concrete content, height, and disposal volume |
| Full site clearance to graded pad | Underground removals, fill quantity, and compaction requirements |
| Occupied or adjoining buildings | Protection, sequencing and what has to stay standing next door |
Every demolition is quoted on site, free. Access, structure and what has to be protected move the number more than square footage does, which is why we walk it rather than price it down the phone.
About 40 minutes straight up US 19 past Tarpon Springs — no bridge, no toll. Backhauling to our own transfer station instead of paying Pasco gates is the margin on jobs this size.
How it works
What a Holiday job looks like
Survey and notify
Asbestos survey completed and NESHAP notification filed where required — commercial demolition permits do not issue without it.
Locates and disconnects
Utility locates run, services cut and capped, and disconnections confirmed by each utility.
Permit and sequence
Demolition permit through the municipality, with an engineered take-down sequence and protection plan for adjacent property.
Demolish and sort
The building comes down, with concrete, block and steel separated as they come off.
Clear and grade
Site cleared, underground removals completed, and the pad filled and compacted with our own base material if you are rebuilding.
Questions
Commercial in Holiday — FAQs
How much does commercial cost in Holiday?
It comes down to the structure and the access, not the ZIP code. On small commercial building, under 5,000 sq ft, what moves the number is construction type, asbestos findings, and site constraints. What moves it in Holiday is volume and repeatability — these are quick jobs, and the number reflects a production rhythm rather than a one-off mobilization. We walk the site and quote it, free.
Can you take the site through to a buildable pad?
Yes. Demolition, clearance, fill and compacted crushed-concrete base can all run under one contract, using material from our own yard.
Where does the debris go?
Concrete and block go to our own C&D transfer station on Keene Rd and are crushed into base material; steel is recycled. Owning the disposal facility is a structural cost advantage, not a slogan.
Are you licensed for commercial demolition in Florida?
Yes — C-11855 as a specialty demolition contractor, plus CUC041521 for underground utility work. Those are the two licenses this scope actually requires, and we hold both directly.