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The Trash it Man team was recently called out on an interior demolition job in Manhattan, New York. This was a luxury apartment in a hi-rise building in downtown Manhattan. Doing an interior demolition in an expensive home can be troublesome and needs some special care. You must be careful of all the dust and debris that will be generated and everything must be carted out with care. The work site needs to remain clean at all times in order to limit debris from being spread around the rest of the home.

The following lines and photos will show you how a professional, trained team handles the job.

First, we lay out floor protection all the way through the home. This includes not only the room being demolished, but also every entrance from the room and the floor through the whole apartment. We also had to lay out floor protection through the hallways of the building to protect the fine carpets from debris and dirt.

Floor protection laid out in the living room

Floor protection in hallway of building

The next step is to set up all necessary equipment and get prepared for the actual demolition job. Containers to cart out the rubbish, tools and, of course, brooms and dust pans to clean up the waste during the demolition.

Set up equipment needed for demolition

Now the interior demolition job can begin. This job was an interior kitchen demolition in a very high end apartment. Everything had to be ripped out of the kitchen. All the appliances, stove top, oven, dish washer, refrigerator, garbage disposer and microwave all went out the door. The cabinets, sink and counter tops all got ripped out. The tiled floor as well, had to be removed. There were two layers of tile floor in this place that had to be removed.

The following images will show a bit of the work as it progressed.

Removal of kitchen cabinets

In the above image, we see all the kitchen cabinet doors were carefully removed. We had to be very careful not to damage the walls or windows as we worked.

Removal of overhead cabinets

The above image shows the guys removing the overhead kitchen cabinets. You can see the refrigerator has already been pulled out of its space, ready to remove from the home.

Removal of counter tops and stone wall tiles

Above you can see the removal of kitchen counter tops and the removal of the stone wall tiles. These were very heavy pieces of stone and had to be broken up to remove them from the kitchen carefully. The stone wall tiles had to be removed one by one from the wall. Many had electrical cover plates attached to them, which had to be removed first. Don’t forget to shut off the electricity first.

Removal of sink and dishwasher

Above you can see we have begun the removal of the kitchen sink and the under sink cabinets. Also the dish washer has been pulled out so that we can start disassembly of the wiring. The sink was heavy cast iron and the counter top was a solid, very heavy piece of stone. It all came out in pieces. The under sink cabinets all came out piece by piece. The whole job was done carefully in order to prevent flying debris taking out a window.

Careful removal of waste and debris from demo site

We very carefully take every piece of the rubbish out of the kitchen demo site and place them into a large container in order to be removed. Notice the expensive items around our worker. We must take great care not to damage anything. We place the items one by one into the container.

Kitchen has been totally ripped out

So, now all the kitchen appliances, cabinets and fixtures have been removed. Next we sweep the floor and remove all debris from the demolition site. All the waste material goes out into our truck which waits outside.

Loading all waste material into garbage truck

The garbage truck has a lift on it, which makes the job so much easier. Each of the containers, when it is filled up, goes into the truck to be emptied and brought back into the demolition job site.

Removal of ceramic floor tiles

The ceramic floor tiles come out next. Notice the power tools and gear our guys are wearing. Ear protection, breathing protection, protective shoes and gloves are needed for this job.

Sweeping as we remove the floor tiles

Remember, cleanliness is important, so we constantly sweep the area as we work in order to limit debris from traveling outside the work zone.

Tile floor removal is finished

The ceramic tile floor removal job is done. The floor is bare down to the cement and swept clean.

Clean up the work area and surrounding space

Now we clean the rooms near to the work zone. We make sure that the whole place is left just the way we found it – except for the missing kitchen.

Watch a video of the whole job here:

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