Demolition · Fort Lauderdale, FL
Sunshine State Junk Removal does demolition throughout Fort Lauderdale, from gutting a condo kitchen downtown to taking down a detached garage or a whole house, with haul-off and site cleanup included. Broward's largest city runs from 1920s land-boom homes to new high-rises, so start with photos and your address and we will scope the job from there.
Serving Fort Lauderdale
Services
Interior demolition means tearing out the parts of a home or business you're replacing, like drywall, flooring, cabinets, fixtures or a whole room down to the studs, while protecting what stays.
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Kitchen and bathroom demolition is the tear-out before a remodel: cabinets, countertops, tile, tubs, showers, vanities and toilets come out so new work can go in.
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Garage and structure demolition means taking down a detached garage, carport, pergola, workshop, enclosure or other outbuilding and hauling it away.
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Sunshine State Junk Removal takes down whole houses in Broward County, including the haul-off and site cleanup afterward.
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Fort Lauderdale, incorporated in 1911 and now the Broward County seat, saw its first major development in the 1920s Florida land boom and grew fast again after World War II; a 1967 report estimated the city was already about 85% developed. Since 2002, downtown, especially around Las Olas Boulevard, has been rebuilt with new hotels and high-rise condominiums.
The city has about 165 miles of inland waterways, the reason it is nicknamed the Venice of America, plus about 7 miles of beach. More than 60 neighborhoods are officially recognized, and since 2000 the city has added about 18,000 residents by annexing seven formerly unincorporated neighborhoods. Its northwestern section is separate from the rest of the city, linked only by the Cypress Creek Canal under I-95.
General guidance
In general, a city that was mostly built out by the late 1960s has a large stock of homes now well past 50 years old. Houses of that age often come up for full kitchen and bath tear-outs, flooring removal, or replacing an aging detached garage or enclosure, and sometimes the whole house comes down to make room for new construction.
High-rise condo work is a different job. Towers, as a rule, set work hours, require service elevator bookings and protect common areas, and some want a certificate of insurance before anyone starts. Canal-front lots can be narrow, so plan where debris will be staged before the first wall opens.
Our Fort Lauderdale service area covers the whole city, including Victoria Park, Coral Ridge, Rio Vista, Flagler Village, Colee Hammock and Tarpon River, the Las Olas and Riverwalk corridor along the New River, and the beach side near Hugh Taylor Birch State Park and Bahia Mar Marina.
If you are in one of the annexed neighborhoods or the northwestern section, include your full address; it confirms the property is inside city limits, which decides where any permit comes from.
Demo + dumpster
Doing the demo yourself or with your contractor? Rent a dump trailer in Fort Lauderdale →
Real jobs
From our Google Business Profile posts. Each card says exactly what our part of the job was.
Post-construction cleanup
August 9, 2026 · Pompano Beach · nearby job, not in Fort Lauderdale
We cleared post-construction debris at a medical center for a contractor.
Our part: Cleared and hauled away the post-construction debris.
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Junk removal
August 18, 2026 · Sea Ranch Lakes · nearby job, not in Fort Lauderdale
A family that had just moved in had us haul away their cardboard and moving boxes.
Our part: Hauled away the cardboard and moving boxes.
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Dumpster rental for demolition
July 4, 2026 · Sawgrass, Sunrise · nearby job, not in Fort Lauderdale
Early on a Saturday we swapped out a trailer for a client working at the Best Buy store in Sawgrass.
Our part: Swapped the trailer early Saturday morning; Sunshine supplied the trailer and did not do the demolition.
Read about this job →In Fort Lauderdale, permits run through Building Services in the Development Services Department, and its Permitting Services page is the place to check what your demolition requires before anything is scheduled. Any application is filed by you as the owner or by your contractor, never by Sunshine. Our house demolition page covers what owners typically arrange before a whole-house teardown.
City of Fort Lauderdale Building Services (Development Services Department) →
FAQ
Yes. In a tower, interior demolition is mostly logistics: booking the service elevator, working inside the building's allowed hours and protecting hallways. Share your association's rules and any certificate-of-insurance requirement along with your photos, and we will plan the tear-out around them.
Yes, whole-house demolition with haul-off and site cleanup. Before that, the owner or their contractor gets the city's permit and has the utilities disconnected; we do neither. Book a walkthrough so we can see the lot, the access and what sits next door.
It can. Canal-front lots in general leave less room to stage debris and have a waterline edge to protect. Tell us where a trailer can park and what is off-limits, and we will plan the work and the haul-off around that.
Yes, nearby. In Pompano Beach we cleared post-construction debris at a medical center for a contractor, and in Sea Ranch Lakes we hauled away cardboard and moving boxes for a family that had just moved in.
Fort Lauderdale is served from our Southwest Ranches location. Photos for a quote go by text to (954) 247-1399, and the card on this page lists that location's phone and hours.
Ready when you are
Tell us the building or street, what needs to come down and how we reach it, and we will send back a Fort Lauderdale demolition quote that accounts for the access.
