FOUR40 handles interior strip-outs and selective demolition across the GTA — designated substance survey first, sealed containment, load-bearing checked, sorted disposal. Free on-site estimates.
What's included
Demolition is the one stage where an hour of checking saves a very expensive month. What is in the wall, and whether the wall is holding the house up, are both answerable before anything comes down.
Ontario law requires the survey before work, and it protects everyone on site.
What it costs
We publish real numbers rather than "it depends" — but only once they're ours to publish. Our written ranges are being finalised; call and we'll give you one over the phone in a minute. What moves the number:
Working with us
We measure, check drainage and grade, and talk through what you actually want. Free, and no pressure to sign anything.
Scope, materials, base depth and price in writing. You'll know exactly what's included before a shovel moves.
Ontario One Call locates booked, materials ordered, start date confirmed. A realistic window, not an optimistic one.
Excavation, base, compaction, install. Site cleaned at the end of each day — you still have to live there.
We walk it together before final payment. Anything on your list gets fixed, then we're back if settling shows up.
Questions
No. We do interior and selective demolition — strip-outs, single rooms, basements, kitchens and bathrooms, removing non-structural walls, taking a space back to studs or to slab. Full structural teardown is a different trade with different insurance, and we will point you at it rather than take it on.
This is the part that matters and it is not optional. In Ontario, before demolition or renovation work an owner must have the building examined for designated substances — asbestos above all — and the findings given to every contractor bidding the work. Asbestos turns up in older drywall joint compound, vinyl floor tile and the mastic under it, pipe and duct insulation, and textured ceilings.
Any pre-1990 home is a candidate. The survey is inexpensive relative to what it prevents, and no reputable contractor should be swinging a hammer into an unsurveyed older interior. If a quote does not raise this, that tells you something about the quote.
Sealed poly barriers at the openings, floor protection on the route in and out, and negative air where the job warrants it. Demolition dust migrates through a house for weeks if the containment is an afterthought, and it is the single most common complaint about renovation work generally.
We look before we cut — at the joist direction above, what sits over the wall, and what is in the basement below it. Where a wall is carrying, or where it is genuinely unclear, that becomes an engineer's question and a beam and permit, not a judgement call made on site with a sledgehammer.
Binned and hauled. Clean fill, metal, wood and drywall separate where the volume justifies it, because sorted disposal is cheaper than mixed. Disposal is a real line on a demolition quote and anyone leaving it off is planning to add it later.
Service area
Close enough to come back if something needs attention — which matters more than it sounds.
Elsewhere in the GTA? Call and ask — we travel for the right project.
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