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Demolition Five Dock

The biggest job this suburb has watched lately was a public one. The acoustic shed at the Sydney Metro West Five Dock Station site came down with nearly everything in it sorted for recycling instead of tipped. A house is far smaller, but demolition in Five Dock is judged the same way: on what leaves the block, and on how little the neighbours put up with. Super Demolition is family owned and managed, holds a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence, and has over 30 years behind the work. Send the address and you will have an answer within 24 hours.

Super Demolition carries out demolition in Five Dock under a current Demolition Licence and Asbestos Removal Licence, covering house and garage knockdowns, partial demolition, commercial strip-outs and licensed asbestos removal. Every Five Dock address sits in postcode 2046 and is assessed by the City of Canada Bay, through a development application or a complying development certificate. Written quotes are free.

Where a Five Dock house ends up once it comes down

A demolition is mostly a materials exercise. A weatherboard cottage and a double brick semi break down into the same short list: masonry, concrete, roof tiles, timber, scrap metal and rubbish. Sorted on the way out, most of it goes back into road base and fill. Mixed into one skip, it goes to landfill and you pay to put it there.

We separate on site wherever access allows and send clean material to facilities approved to recycle it in NSW. Asbestos never joins it. Fibro behind the linings comes out under our own licence and is manifested to a facility licensed to receive it, which our asbestos removal service sets out in full.

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Who assesses a demolition at your address here

The City of Canada Bay is the consent authority for Five Dock, and no boundary runs through the suburb, so there is no second authority to rule out first. Postcode 2046 is shared with several neighbours, so name the council rather than the number when you talk to a certifier or a builder.

Canada Bay is also lightly heritage mapped by inner western standards. Of thirteen Sydney councils measured, conservation areas cover 5.2% of the local government area, one of the smallest shares in the set. Mapped pockets and individual heritage items still exist, so a block is worth checking, but the odds here run the other way.

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Which approval you end up lodging, and what settles it

A complying development certificate is issued by a private certifier against a fixed code. Nothing is weighed up: the land and the proposal meet every standard in it, or the route is closed. A development application goes to the City of Canada Bay instead, which assesses it on merit, notifies neighbours where the controls require it, and can approve with conditions or refuse.

Across Canada Bay, complying development certificates account for 54.9% of demolition approvals, so a little over half the work here takes the certifier route. What decides which one you are on is the land and the scope: zoning, any heritage mapping over the block under Canada Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013, and whether the demolition stands alone or belongs to a larger proposal.

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Super Demolition, the licences and the person who turns up

Jack owns the business and is usually the one who walks the block with you. Super Demolition is family owned and managed, with over 30 years of experience in demolition, excavation and asbestos work, and a 5.0 rating across 84 reviews. Ask to see a current Demolition Licence and a current Asbestos Removal Licence before you accept anything, and note that staff and contractors comply with WorkCover requirements to Australian Standard 2601-2001. The rest sits with our residential demolition service.

The site assessment and the written quote cost nothing, and every enquiry is answered within 24 hours. Call 0455 888 819 to book a time on site.

The paperwork and the shut-offs, handled end to end

  • The development application to the City of Canada Bay, or the certificate through a private certifier
  • Council notification, and written notice to the neighbours entitled to it
  • WorkCover approval and a Work Method Statement written for your address
  • Dial Before You Dig plans before anything breaks ground
  • Electrical, gas and phone or internet disconnections
  • Licensed asbestos removal, EPA approved NSW disposal, dockets back to you
  • The demolition clearance certificate at completion
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Knockdowns, part demolitions and shop strip-outs

Tell us what has to go and the scope follows. A full knockdown takes the house, garage, sheds, fencing, paving and the slab, and hands back a block your builder can set out on. A part demolition removes a rear wing or an upper level while the rest stays standing, propped and protected. For a shop, our commercial demolition service strips fittings, linings and services back to a bare shell.

Getting a price you can build a budget on

Nobody can price this from a phone call, and a contractor who tries is quoting your neighbour’s house rather than yours. Construction type moves the figure, so does access, so does asbestos, and so does how much material can be recycled rather than tipped.

We look first and price after, in writing, with the works, the approvals and the disposal itemised. That figure is the one you pay: no hidden fees and no variations. Hold a written quote from another contractor and we will beat it.

Suburbs we cover either side of Five Dock

We take demolition, excavation and asbestos work across Inner West Sydney, including the addresses closest to you:

Five Dock questions that come up on the first call

Every quote I have been given is a different number. What am I comparing?

The inclusions, not the totals. One price may cover the lodgement, the disconnections and the disposal while the next covers machine work alone and bills the rest as it arises.

What is the Australian standard for demolition of structures?

AS 2601-2001. It means the building is surveyed before anything is touched, hazardous materials are identified rather than stumbled into, and the order of removal is settled on paper before a machine is booked.

The houses either side are close. How is the work kept off them?

Screening goes up before the first wall comes down, water goes on the material as it falls, and the sequence works from the top rather than from whichever side is easiest to reach.

What actually happens to the bricks, concrete and tiles?

They leave sorted. Clean masonry and concrete go to a facility approved to recycle them in NSW; mixed or contaminated material goes to lawful disposal with a docket to prove it did.

Is Five Dock a nice place to live, and does any of that reach a demolition?

It is the question search engines pair with this suburb most, and only one part of it touches the job. The close houses and full kerbs that make the streets pleasant also decide how a machine gets in, where a skip stands and how the site is fenced.

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    Five Dock has already seen how the good version of this work looks, and the measure of it was how little the surrounding streets had to notice. A knockdown here is the same trade at a smaller scale, on land where the council is settled and the mapping is usually kind. Call 0455 888 819 or email info@superdemolition.com.au with the street number and a line about what you want gone.