Interior demolition · St. Lucie County
Interior demolition in St. Lucie County
Interior demolition removes finishes, partitions and systems while the shell stays standing. The difficulty is everything that stays: the roof, the bearing walls, the tenant behind a shared wall, and the circuits that must stay live elsewhere.
In St. Lucie County the permit comes from whichever office governs the parcel. The permit comes from Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce or St. Lucie Village when the parcel is inside one of them, while unincorporated land goes to the county's Building and Code Regulations Division. Fort Pierce asks for plans showing the work area on a partial or interior demolition, so we draw the line between what comes out and what stays before anyone picks up a bar.
Inside a building, the age of the finishes matters more than the size of the room. Census figures put the median year built at 1982 in Fort Pierce and 2002 in Port St. Lucie, and older joint compound, flooring mastic and ceiling texture are where asbestos tends to sit. We arrange a licensed survey before demolition, and anything it finds goes to a licensed abatement firm rather than to our crew.
Water damage is the other common reason for a strip-out. Where wet materials have grown mold, removal is coordinated with a licensed mold remediator, and the demolition scope is set around their containment, not the other way round.
We quote interior work at any size, from a single bathroom to a full commercial floor. Send the floor plan, or walk the space with us.
Order of work
- Walk the space with you and agree the line between what comes out and what stays.
- Identify the permitting office for the parcel and prepare the work-area plan.
- Arrange the licensed asbestos survey and any notice the scope calls for.
- Have the licensed trades isolate electrical, plumbing and gas inside the work area.
- Seal the area, protect what stays, and strip finishes and partitions with hand tools and small equipment.
- Sort and haul the debris, separating metals for recycling where practical.
- Walk the stripped space with you before the next trade takes it over.
Watch points
Where this kind of job runs into trouble, and how we handle it
Cutting into a wall that carries load
Partitions and bearing walls look the same once the drywall is off. We confirm which walls carry the roof or the floor above from drawings or an engineer's review before removal, and anything uncertain is shored or left in place until it is resolved.
Hitting live wiring or plumbing
Circuits and supply lines often serve rooms outside the demolition zone. Systems inside the work area are isolated and verified dead by the licensed trades before removal starts, and anything that must stay live is marked and protected.
Dust reaching the occupied part of the building
In a tenant space or an occupied home, dust travels through return air and under doors. We seal openings, cap the ductwork in the work area, and set a debris route that does not pass through the rooms still in use.
A suspect material turning up mid-job
Even after a survey, old pipe insulation or mastic can appear behind a later wall. Work in that area stops, the licensed consultant samples it, and demolition there resumes only after their findings have been dealt with.
Outside our scope
Asbestos surveys and abatement, mold remediation, and electrical, plumbing or gas disconnects are separate licensed work that we coordinate. A wall is treated as structural until drawings or an engineer say otherwise, and we do not assume a finish contains no asbestos because the building is recent.
Questions
About interior demolition
Does an interior strip-out in Port St. Lucie need a permit?
St. Lucie County's building FAQ quotes Florida Building Code section 102.2, which brings the removal and demolition of buildings and structures under permit. Port St. Lucie works from the same state code, and its Building Department decides what a given interior scope needs. We check it for your address before any work starts.
Can the rest of the building stay open while you work?
Often it can, if the work area can be sealed and given its own route out for debris. We plan containment and the debris path around your operating hours and tell you plainly where that will not work.
What will my demolition cost in St. Lucie?
We put a number on it once we have seen the job, on site or through photos and plans that show enough. It turns on what the structure is built from, its footprint and height, what the asbestos survey finds, which services need disconnecting, whether a septic tank must be abandoned, how equipment gets in, what sits next door, what you want kept, and the haul to the disposal site. Two houses on the same Port St. Lucie street can quote quite differently, so we do not post rates.
Is any job too small or too large in size for you?
No. We quote a single shed, a screen enclosure, a pool, a mobile home or a full commercial building, and partial jobs where most of the structure stays. Tell us what is on the property and what must remain, and the quote follows that.
Is Romco Builders licensed?
Yes. Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor with its office in Fort Lauderdale. Work that requires its own license, including asbestos abatement, electrical and plumbing disconnects, septic abandonment, mold remediation and tree removal, goes to firms holding that license, and we keep them on one schedule.
Start to finish
How a St. Lucie job moves
Reach out
Phone us or use the form. Include the address, what is coming down, what is staying, and photos or plans if you have them.
We look at the property
We check the structure, where power, water and sewer or septic connect, how equipment and trucks reach the work, and what is next door.
A written scope and quote
It lists what is removed, what is protected and what is hauled, and flags anything that depends on the asbestos survey.
Survey, notice, letters, permit
A licensed asbestos survey, the state demolition notice, the utility letters, then the permit from the city, town or county.
Demolition and hauling
Work follows the agreed order. Debris goes to permitted facilities, and the tickets are kept.
Final inspection
The inspector closes the permit. You get a cleared lot, or the shell you asked us to leave.
Interior demolition anywhere in St. Lucie, including Port St. Lucie, Tradition, St. Lucie West, Sandpiper Bay, Fort Pierce, Lincoln Park, St. Lucie Village, River Park, Lakewood Park, White City, and every other St. Lucie city.
Other work
More demolition we quote
- Selective demolitionTake out an addition, a wing or a bay and keep the building that remains in service.Selective demolition in St. Lucie →
- Commercial demolitionRetail, office and industrial buildings taken down, with approvals run in the right order.Commercial demolition in St. Lucie →
- House demolitionA full teardown of a single-family house, from utility letters to a graded lot.House demolition in St. Lucie →
- Structural demolitionFrames, walls and floors taken down in order, including buildings under unsafe orders.Structural demolition in St. Lucie →
- Concrete removalSlabs, driveways, footings and foundations broken out, hauled and recycled.Concrete removal in St. Lucie →
- Pool removalBreak out the top and backfill, or lift the whole shell, with the drainage handled.Pool removal in St. Lucie →
- Mobile home demolitionSingle and double wides removed with chassis, tie-downs, add-ons and debris cleared.Mobile home demolition in St. Lucie →
- Storm damage demolitionHurricane, tornado and flood damage taken down with the record your insurer needs.Storm damage demolition in St. Lucie →
- Site clearingLots cleared of old structures, slabs and debris, with protected trees left in place.Site clearing in St. Lucie →
- Asbestos coordinationLicensed survey, FDEP notice and licensed abatement scheduled before demolition.Asbestos coordination in St. Lucie →
- Accessory structure demolitionSheds, detached garages, carports and screen enclosures removed under permit.Accessory structure demolition in St. Lucie →
- Something else?Not on the list? We still quote it. Call and talk us through the job.Call (772) 310-3298 →
Every type and size, all over St. Lucie County
Tell us what has to come down, and we will quote it.
Romco Builders is a licensed Florida general contractor, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale. One wall inside a house or an entire building gets the same thing from us: a written scope and a number.