Fort Lauderdale · Plantation · Oakland Park · Wilton Manors · Davie
Fort Lauderdale Demolition Pros connects property owners, flippers, and general contractors with a licensed, insured Broward County demolition contractor, for anything from a full teardown on a canal lot to a Tuesday morning call about a cracked pool deck. Call (954) 998-4434 and describe the job. We ask a few questions, route it to a contractor who already knows the permitting office you're about to deal with, and most calls get a response the same business day. No national call center, no guessing which of Broward's building departments your address falls under, and no problem if you're running the project from out of state, which describes a fair number of the flippers who call us.
Tell us what you need. A local crew takes a look, walks you through it, and gives you a number in writing.
Call for a Free EstimateBecause three things collide here that don't collide in most markets. First, a genuinely active teardown-rebuild scene: older single-story homes on canal lots and near-beach parcels get bought for the land, not the house, and the structure comes down to make room for something built to current code. Second, hurricane-driven building requirements. Broward and Miami-Dade are the only two counties Florida's building code designates as a High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, a stricter set of wind-load and impact standards that trace back to the old South Florida Building Code and survived the state's 2001 push to unify everything under one code. Bringing an aging structure up to that standard through renovation alone sometimes costs more than starting from a cleared lot. Third, the permitting itself runs through the specific city where the property sits. Broward County has 31 municipalities, and most of them, Fort Lauderdale included, operate their own building department with their own checklist. A demolition permit application in Plantation is not filled out the same way as one in Oakland Park, even though both answer to the same county-level asbestos and environmental rules underneath.
None of that has to be your problem to figure out. It's ours, and it's the reason we route jobs to contractors who already work inside the specific city's process instead of learning it on your dime.
Fort Lauderdale's nickname, the Venice of America, comes from the extensive network of canals that laces through its residential neighborhoods, and a lot of the demolition activity we see traces straight back to that geography. Waterfront lots along those canals carry land values that make an aging single-story home look small next to what the parcel itself is worth, which is exactly the kind of property that gets bought to be cleared rather than remodeled.
Whole-house teardowns are the most common call we field, usually from someone who bought a property planning to rebuild rather than renovate. The contractor we connect you with handles the permit package, the required asbestos notification, utility disconnects, the actual demolition, and grading the lot flat when it's done. See residential demolition for the full process, start to finish.
Commercial work splits into two different jobs: gutting the inside of a space between tenants, and taking down an entire building. Both come with more moving parts than residential work, more coordination with landlords, adjacent tenants, and other trades on a schedule, and both show up constantly around Fort Lauderdale's retail and office corridors. Read more about commercial demolition.
Pools get removed two ways: broken up and partially filled in place, or fully excavated and hauled out. The right choice depends on what you're planning to build over the spot and how you want it to show up in county records when you sell. Details are on the pool removal page.
Gutting a kitchen down to the studs is a different job than opening up a load-bearing wall, and the permit requirements aren't the same either. Interior demolition covers both, plus what tends to turn up behind the drywall in an older Broward home.
Driveways, patios, pool decks, old slabs left behind by a structure that came down years ago: concrete removal is often its own call, separate from any building demolition. Concrete removal covers flatwork, thicker reinforced slabs, and coring for new plumbing or electrical runs, whether or not a building is coming down anywhere near it.
Once a structure and its slab are gone, the lot still needs grading, debris haul-off, and often fill dirt before it's ready for anything else, whether that's new construction or just a lot that won't erode into the neighbor's yard. Site clearing covers what happens after the demolition crew leaves.
Fort Lauderdale · Plantation · Oakland Park · Wilton Manors · Davie
Free on-site estimates across Broward County.
We cover Fort Lauderdale and the rest of Broward County, including Plantation, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, and Davie. Broward is Florida's second-most populous county, behind only Miami-Dade, and that scale is part of why permitting varies so much from block to block instead of running through one office for the whole area. Each of those cities runs its own permitting process (Davie still carries some of its western, ranch-lot character into how properties get used, and Wilton Manors packs a lot of older single-family stock into a small footprint), and the contractor we connect you with will already know which one applies to your address. If your property sits somewhere else in Broward, call (954) 998-4434 anyway. There's a good chance we cover it, and if we don't, we'll tell you plainly instead of stringing you along.
It depends on more than square footage. A concrete block home costs more to break up than a wood-frame one, a job with tight canal-lot access costs more than one with room for equipment to swing freely, and a structure that needs asbestos abatement before anyone can touch it costs more than one that doesn't. Permit fees vary by city, disposal is billed by the ton, and utility disconnects have to happen before a permit closes out regardless of how big or small the job is. Two houses the same size a mile apart can come back with very different numbers once a contractor accounts for what's actually involved. The short version: get an actual number from a contractor who's looked at your property, not a flat rate off a website. The long version, with typical ranges by project type, is on our demolition cost page.
Call (954) 998-4434 and tell us what you're working with. We'll connect you with a licensed, insured Broward County demolition contractor who can walk the property, explain what the permit process looks like for your city, and give you a written estimate before anything gets torn into.