#1 Find Their Specialty

There are very few demolition subcontractors that do all types of demolition projects, at all sizes, in all industries, and in all situations.  And even if they do work in all those situations, they may not do all of them very good.  So find out.

  Step One: The first way to find out is to ask the subcontractor.  If they say they do everything, then you should ask them about specific situations and if those are projects that they prefer.  If they keep saying yes to everything then it is time to make up something wild. 

A sign of a professional is that they will admit to areas that they do not prefer to work in and areas that they are not as good at compared to other areas.  They will know their limitations, and they will stay away from their limitations so that they can keep doing the things that they are best at..

  Step Two: Ask them if they self perform all of their work.  Do they directly employ the people that will be working on the job, and will they be doing the work using equipment that they own?  If they don't, then it is a good sign that they don't usually do that type of work.  Of course every contractor is going to have some little things that they might need some help with from an even more narrow specialist, but the sub you are checking out should be doing the vast majority of their work with their own forces and their own equipment.

You would be surprised how many specialty contractors bid on work for a big chunck of their revenue and is all they are doing is hiring some other low quality subcontractor that has a bad reputation and is cheep to do the work for them.

Some demolition contractors specialize in just interior demolition and have no equipment or people on their staff that are qualified to perform building demolition, yet they still bid on and are awarded building demolition projects.  When they are awarded the building demolition project they try to scab together a crew somehow, or they hire some other subcontractor to just do it for them.  So you thought you were hiring one contractor, but you are really getting someone else that you have no idea who they are.

  Step Three: Ask to see the list of current jobs they have that are underway.  In some circumstances they might not have the type of project you are considering them for going on right at that moment, but even in that situation don't you think they should be able to give you the name and phone number of several customers from projects they have completed within the last month or two? 

Visit their jobsites.  Call their customers.  Find out what is really going on with them and their jobs.  This isn't too difficult of a thing to do and won't take very much of your time.

We will be up front with you.  We are not the best demolition contractor in all situations.  But we are the best for a lot of different situations though.

Breinholt Contracting specializes in full building and structure demolition, in selective structural demolition, in full interior demolition/ strip outs, and in some types of selective interior demolition.  We generally work in all industries.  The majority of our work is done in Maricopa County.  We frequently do work in areas like Tucson and Prescott.  We travel to other areas of Arizona,  western New Mexico, and southern Colorado for larger projects.

We do very little work in the area of small strip mall tenant improvements, or small residential selective interior demolitions.  We do not work in operational retail facilities.

We own 99.9% of the equipment we need to complete all of the work that we do, and we do the work with 99.9% of all our own employees!  There are items that we need to lean on a subcontractor from time to time.  This would include larege amounts of concrete or asphalt cutting, asbestos abatement, and sometimes we need to rent an extra truck or two to help balance our trucking schedule.