Interior demolition
Non-structural interiors stripped out cleanly and on schedule — walls, ceilings, flooring, cabinetry, tile, and fixtures.
- Kitchens & bathrooms
- Basements & attics
- Offices & retail build-outs
Jersey City · Firefighter owned & operated
We take the inside out.
Down to the studs.
Interior demolition, selective demo, and residential gut-outs across Hudson County and North Jersey. Fully insured, fixed price, debris hauled off, and the site left broom-clean.
Fully insured · Free walkthroughs · Certificate sent to you or your GC
See what a gut-out looks like
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Let Hook & Smash handle the demo to give you the dream kitchen you’ve always wanted.
Let Hook & Smash handle the demo to give you the dream bathroom you’ve always wanted.
Let Hook & Smash handle the demo to give you the dream basement you’ve always wanted.
Fully insuredCertificate of insurance sent before day one.
Fixed priceWritten number after the walkthrough. No day-rate surprises.
Debris hauled offIt leaves with us. Metal recycled, disposal handled legally.
Firefighter ownedRun by a career firefighter who reads structures for a living.
What we do
Interior demolition, done right the first time
We're a specialist, not a general wrecking outfit. Everything we touch is inside the building — which is exactly where precision matters most.
Selective demolition
Surgical removal where the walls that stay have to stay. We identify what's load-bearing before anything moves, and protect everything you're keeping.
- Single-wall removals
- Openings & pass-throughs
- Occupied-building work
Residential gut-outs
Full interior gut back to studs, joists, and subfloor. Plumbing and electrical stubbed and capped, site swept, ready for framing Monday morning.
- Whole-unit gut-outs
- Brownstones & multi-family
- Pre-renovation prep
How a job runs
Four steps, no surprises
Same order every time. The fire service doesn't improvise on scene, and neither do we.
Size-up
We walk the job with you. Load-bearing walls, utilities, access, and the surprises behind the drywall — found before you get a price, not after.
Set up
Utilities capped, permits pulled where required, dust barriers hung, floors and hallways protected. In multi-family, neighbors get a heads-up.
Knock it down
Controlled and methodical, not reckless. Anything you asked us to salvage comes out intact and gets set aside instead of smashed.
Overhaul
Everything hauled off and disposed of legally, metal recycled, floors swept, nails picked up. We walk it with you before we pull out.
Where we work
Based in Jersey City
Hudson County is home base, and we work throughout North Jersey. Brownstones, walk-ups, high-rise units with a service elevator and a strict window — all normal here.
Jersey City
HobokenBayonne
Union CityWeehawken
North BergenSecaucus
NewarkHarrison
Kearny& surrounding North Jersey
Most residential jobs get scheduled within a week or two. Working around a closing date, a building's move-in window, or a GC's framing crew? Say so in the quote form — that's usually the part that decides the schedule.
Who you're hiring
A career firefighter who takes buildings apart for a living
I'm Peter, founder of Hook and Smash Demolition. I've lived in North Jersey my whole life.
Fire's been my career and my calling since I started, running toward the exact situations everyone else is running from. Hook and Smash isn't something we do on the side between shifts and forget about. It's got my name on it, and every job gets treated that way.
I started this because I was tired of seeing outfits treat someone's house like it was disposable. No plan, no respect for the part you're keeping, gone the second the check clears. That's not how I was raised, and it's not how we do business in towns I grew up in. When you hire Hook and Smash, you get people who treat your home like it still has to stand when we leave, because it does.
We show up when we say we will. We give you a real number, not a lowball that turns into five change orders later. And we leave your place the way we would want ours left, because odds are good we will run into you again around here.
Ready to see what your space could look like? Get your free quote below.
- Show upIf we say Tuesday at eight, we're parked out front at ten of.
- Fixed priceThe number in the quote is the number on the invoice, unless you add work.
- InsuredCertificate goes straight to you, your GC, or your building management.
- CleanSwept floors, nails picked up, hallways and elevators left the way we found them.
- Straight answersIf a job isn't worth doing, or another trade should handle it, we'll tell you.
Free quote
Tell us what needs to come out
The more you can tell us about size and access, the tighter the number. Photos help too, just text a few over once we're in touch.
Just getting the feed going — job photos and progress shots go up on Instagram as the work happens.
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