Light demolition in Pasadena

Precise Junk Removal does light demolition in Pasadena and across the San Gabriel Valley. The crew takes the small stuff apart inside the house and hauls off what's left of it. An interior wall that holds nothing up. A tile floor or worn-out flooring coming out before the new goes down. The old kitchen cabinets. A built-in desk nobody wants. The pieces go on the truck the same trip, so the room is clear when the truck pulls away. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. The team prices it off the photo.

These jobs land in the middle of a project, usually with something new waiting to go in and nowhere for the old stuff to go. A homeowner pulled the vanity and now wants the tile backsplash gone too. Somebody fixing up a rental needs the cabinets out before the new ones get delivered. Those are the parts of a remodel that come apart with hand tools, and the pieces go out on the truck.

Hauling is the second half of every one of these jobs. What comes off a wall or a floor fills a truck faster than furniture does, and broken tile and plaster are heavy, so the load matters as much as the teardown. If the pile is already made and somebody else did the swinging, that is debris left over from construction work instead. The whole list of towns the truck goes to sits on one page.

What goes on the truck

• Non load bearing interior walls
• Tile floors and thinset
• Old kitchen cabinets
• Bathroom vanities and mirrors
• Built-in shelves and desks
• Drywall, plaster and lath
• Laminate countertops
• Closet shelving and rods
• Old flooring and underlayment

Text a photo of yours to (626) 590-3118.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: remodel and demo debris.

What counts as light demolition

Most hauling starts with something already loose. It sits in the garage or out by the fence, and it gets loaded. Light demolition starts a step earlier, because the thing is still attached. The tile is stuck to the slab and the cabinets are screwed into the studs. So the work begins with a pry bar and a saw, and the carry comes after that.

A typical one is a bathroom taken down to the studs, a kitchen's uppers and a laminate counter, a tile floor and the thinset under it, a dead wall between a kitchen and a dining room, or a built-in nobody has used in years. What they all have in common is that the room is unusable until the pieces are gone. So the teardown only counts as done when the last piece is on the truck.

What comes apart with hand tools

Precise Junk Removal takes the pieces that are not holding anything up. A wall that is only dividing one room from the next comes out in sheets, and so does the closet shelving behind a sliding door. Which side of that line a job is on gets answered while it is still a photo on a phone, and knowing it early matters, because a wall that is staying changes the plan for the whole room.

When the project runs past one wall and one floor, renovation work covers more of it. One wall, one tile floor, or a kitchen's worth of old cabinets is a light demolition call.

What a teardown and haul costs

The minimum is $50. Past that, one number comes back off a photo for the whole job, set by how much room the load takes on the truck. For demolition that is the part worth a second photo. A wall looks small on a phone and turns into a surprising stack of drywall and studs once it is down, so send the whole room, both directions, and say what is behind the wall if you know. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Stairs are +$50 each. A steep slope is +$50 at a minimum, and where it lands depends on how hard the carry is, so that number comes back with the price off the photo. Cash, check, or online payment all work. The guide to what junk removal runs around here walks through the same math on other loads.

How a teardown gets loaded

Debris goes straight into the white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed. The same crew does the teardown and the loading. Stairs change the carry, and they are +$50 each. A narrow hall or a gate that only opens so far changes it too. Whether anything needs to be waiting outside is worth asking the crew when you text.

On a rental or a unit with a manager, the crew works the timing out with whoever holds the keys. Precise Junk Removal is a service business with no published street address, so on a demolition job the crew comes to the house and the load leaves with them. The business has been running since 2009, and it holds 4.9 stars across 171 Google reviews.

Where the pieces end up

Not all of it is trash. Cabinet boxes that came out in one piece, a vanity with a good top, solid doors, decent hardware. The crew checks those against a donation center before anything goes toward the landfill, because the kitchen one owner is replacing is sometimes the kitchen somebody else is shopping for. Clean wood and metal studs off the teardown get pulled out too. Roughly 75 percent of what comes off the truck is recycled.

The rest is real trash and it goes to the landfill. Tile still caked with thinset, broken drywall, old carpet pad, plaster and lath. That is the honest end of a demolition load, and it is why the sorting happens at the truck instead of later. The team keeps the two piles apart while they load, because once broken plaster lands on a good cabinet door, the cabinet door is trash too.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (626) 590-3118. Precise looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $50. The only add-ons: stairs +$50, steep slope +$50. More on how pricing works.

Where Precise does this

All of the San Gabriel Valley. See every town Precise covers for light demolition.