What a strip-out with us looks like, day by day

Before day one: first contact and the quote

Most jobs start with a message. You send photos or a short video of each room, the address or municipio, the floor level, whether there is a lift and what you want removed. You can write in English. If the photos leave open questions, such as what is under a floor or how the rubble can leave the building, we arrange a visit with you or with your key holder.

The quote describes the job as a finished state, room by room, and states what is included: protection, hand work, sorting, loading, transport and delivery of waste to an authorised facility, and the final clean. It also names what is outside our scope, such as the técnico's documentation, municipal fees and the work of other trades, and what happens if something unexpected appears. If you want to understand the information we ask for, presupuestodemolicion.eu explains the information needed for a demolition quote.

Before day one: preparation with your técnico and the community

Once you accept, we prepare the start together with you. If the job includes structural work or needs technical documentation, your técnico drafts and signs it and we coordinate dates with them. It is checked with the ayuntamiento whether the job needs a declaración responsable or a licence; that procedure is filed by you and your técnico, not by us.

For apartments, the community of owners is informed through the administrator, and we agree practical points: lift use, protection of common areas, working hours, where a container can stand and whether it needs a permit for the public road. If you are abroad, we confirm with you who holds the keys and how you want to receive updates.

First working day: protection and services

The first working day is mostly about what stays. We protect floors on the access route, the lift interior if it is used, the stairwell, doors and anything inside the property that is not being removed. Doorways to rooms that stay are sealed against dust.

Services are checked before demolition: water isolated and pipe ends capped, electrical circuits made safe in the areas being stripped, any gas supply confirmed disconnected by the relevant installer. If something here does not match what we expected, we tell you before starting to break anything. You receive photos of the protection in place.

Middle days: stripping room by room

The stripping itself follows a logical order: fittings and units first, then doors, frames and wardrobes, then ceilings, wall finishes, partitions and finally floors and screeds. Working from the top down and from light to heavy keeps the job safe and the waste clean.

Materials are sorted as they come out: wood, metal, plasterboard and plaster, plastics, glass and mineral rubble go into separate bags or containers. This is not a preference; Ley 7/2022 requires sorting into these fractions, and selective demolition has been mandatory since 1 January 2024. Partitions are removed according to the agreed scope; anything that looks structural is not touched without your técnico's documentation, as explained on our wall removal page. Bathrooms and kitchens are taken back to the agreed level, described on the kitchen and bathroom strip-out page.

Where can things get messy?

Being honest about the difficult moments is part of the process. These are the situations that most often change a plan:

• A second floor under the first. More material to lift, more waste, sometimes more time.
• Pipes or cables where nobody expected them. We stop in that area until the relevant trade has dealt with them.
• A wall that behaves like structure. We stop and ask your técnico to review it.
• Suspect asbestos-cement material. We stop work on it; the removal is carried out by a RERA-registered company working as our subcontractor, under its own approved work plan, and the waste is kept separate.
• Access problems. A lift out of service or a street closed to the container slows the removal of rubble.

In each case you receive photos and an explanation of the options before anything is decided. The guide on hidden asbestos in interior renovations shows where suspect materials tend to appear.

Loading and waste: what happens to the rubble?

Rubble leaves the property in the way agreed in the quote: through the lift with protection, down the stairs in bags, or through a chute into a container where the building allows it. The sorted fractions are delivered to an authorised waste facility, and you receive the delivery receipts. If the ayuntamiento required a waste deposit, those receipts are what proves correct delivery when it is returned.

Throughout the job, we keep the access route clean and the common areas as we found them. Where the community has set working hours, we respect them.

Last day: clean hand-over

The final day is about leaving the property ready for the next trade. Remaining debris is removed, surfaces are swept and the dust is cleaned from the stripped rooms. Protection is taken up from common areas, and the lift and stairwell are checked with the administrator or concierge where there is one.

You receive a final set of photos from the same points as at the start, the waste delivery receipts and a short note on anything the next trade should know, for example the condition of the slab, the position of capped pipes or areas where the floor will need levelling.

What do we expect from you?

A strip-out runs best when a few things are in place on your side: a clear decision on scope, a reachable contact while the work is underway, the property emptied of belongings, and your técnico and installers informed of the dates. If you are planning the job from abroad, our post on stripping out an apartment you rarely visit goes through the remote side in detail. When you are ready, the interior demolition page and our contact form are the starting point.