Jamaica Hills, Queens
About Prime Demo Queens
A demolition contractor working out of Jamaica Hills, on interior work in Queens houses, co-ops and storefronts that never stop being lived and worked in.
We work where the building is the hard part
Prime Demo Queens is a demolition contractor based at 80-46 162nd St, Jamaica, NY 11432, on a block of detached and attached houses in Jamaica Hills. We work across Queens.
The work is interior demolition: houses, apartments, storefronts, offices and warehouse floors taken back to whatever the next stage needs. Alongside it we cut and remove concrete, and we clear the material we generate.
What that work actually demands in this borough is less about force and more about sequence. Most jobs are in a house the family is still living in, with a neighbour a few feet away, or in a co-op with a service elevator booked by the hour, a super with a timetable and a managing agent with rules. Knowing how to get a kitchen out of a two-family without the family downstairs losing a day, or plaster out of a twelfth floor through a booked cab without a single scuff, is a bigger part of the job than knowing how to take a wall down.
How we price and what we tell you
We walk it before we price it
An estimate written from a drawing is a guess. We look at what is actually there, what is behind the plaster, and how it leaves the building.
We say what we find
If something behind a wall is going to change the number, you hear it that day. Surprises get more expensive the longer they are carried.
We read the building's paperwork
The alteration agreement and the elevator windows decide a co-op schedule more than the scope does, so we ask before we quote rather than after. In a house it is the neighbours and the hours.
We hand over what the next trade needs
When we finish we tell you what we found behind the walls. Your electrician and your plumber are the ones who have to deal with it.
01 Before the first wall
Protection goes in before anything comes down
It is faster to protect a hall than to repair one, and a super remembers a scuffed elevator cab far longer than a tidy job.
Hall, stair, floors, door frames, the lobby and cab where there is one, and anything staying in the space are covered before the work starts. In a house that is the first hour. On an occupied co-op floor it is most of the first day, and it is the part that decides whether the building wants you back.
Who we work with
General contractors and construction managers, architects and designers, building owners and managing agents, boards running a capital project, homeowners in the middle of a renovation through their contractor, and commercial tenants and their contractors clearing a space at the end of a lease.
On residential work we come in as the demolition trade alongside the general contractor running the renovation.
If you are a general contractor, you mostly want to know that we will hold a date and not create a problem with the building or the block. If you are the managing agent, you mostly want to know that your lobby, your elevator and your other residents come out of it unaffected. Both are fair, and we try to answer them before you have to ask.
Outside Queens, the same business works across the rest of the city. The city-wide site routes each borough to its own.