Demolition in Collier County, from the Gulf shore to the Estates

A quote comes after we visit the property, or after we review photos and drawings that show enough. The price follows the building's materials and height, the asbestos survey, utility and septic work, how machines reach the lot, what stays, and where the debris goes. We do not publish prices, because two lots that look alike seldom cost alike.

No limit. Sheds, pools, slabs and single walls get a quote, and so do whole buildings, selective or structural. Describe what stands on the lot and what must stay, and the price follows that description.

Almost always, for anything structural. The office depends on the address: the City of Naples and the City of Marco Island run their own building departments, while Collier County permits the unincorporated areas and handles building services for Everglades City. If Romco is hired, we assemble and file the application as contractor of record and book each inspection through the last one. Check the requirements with the office that covers your parcel.

Testing comes first, by an independent licensed consultant, since the federal asbestos rule wants a thorough inspection ahead of a regulated demolition. Naples and Marco Island both say a survey is filed with the state environmental agency where asbestos is present. When material is found that the job would disturb, a licensed abatement firm takes it out. We schedule the two visits but never perform abatement.

That cannot be answered honestly before the facts are in. The start moves with permit review at your office, notice periods like the fourteen days Naples gives neighbors, historic review, utility and septic paperwork, asbestos findings and the weather. We hand you the order of work, with each dependency named, once those are known.

Yes. Romco Builders is a Florida-licensed general contractor with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. Some tasks need a license or permit of their own, among them asbestos abatement, electrical disconnects, septic abandonment and tree removal. Those go to the firms or agencies with that authority, and we fit them into a single schedule.

It is abandoned, not simply left. When a septic system comes down with the house, the Florida Department of Health in Collier County, which handles septic permitting, issues an abandonment permit. Marco Island asks for that permit before its demolition permit issues. We schedule it into the job.

Licensed disposal or recycling facilities take it, after it has been sorted and loaded. Concrete and metal are usually pulled from the mixed pile first. If there is asbestos waste it moves on its own with the abatement firm under separate rules. Hauling gets its own line in the quote.

Anywhere: Naples and its neighborhoods, Marco Island, Isles of Capri, Goodland, Chokoloskee and Everglades City, Golden Gate Estates, Immokalee and Ave Maria. Fort Lauderdale is our base. Permit offices each publish a separate checklist, and your parcel's is the one we work from.

Frequently. The plan is built around the part that stays: an engineer designs shoring wherever structure comes out, dust and debris are sealed off from the occupied side, and hours are set with the owner or association. All of that is written down before the first wall is opened.