Strip Out Demolition
Internal strip-out demolition for renovations — walls, floors, fixtures and fit-out removed down to a clean shell, ready for your trades.
Learn more →What does a kitchen demolition include?
The complete fit-out: base and overhead cabinets, benchtops, the tiled or glass splashback, sink, appliances, kickboards, and the old floor covering if the new kitchen needs it gone. Kitchen cabinet removal is the bulk of it by volume — a standard L-shaped Perth kitchen fills most of a 4 to 6 cubic metre skip bin once benchtops and tiles are in there too.
What it does not include is licensed trade work. Your plumber caps the water and gas, your electrician isolates the oven and power circuits, and the strip out works back from those made-safe points. That sequence is fixed in the schedule, not left to chance on the day.
How does a kitchen strip out actually run?
In a set order, because a kitchen comes apart in layers.
- Appliances out — oven, rangehood, dishwasher disconnected by the relevant trades and removed first.
- Benchtops off — laminate tops unscrew; stone tops are cut free and carried out in sections. Engineered stone gets handled with dust controls and no dry cutting — Australia banned the manufacture and installation of new engineered stone benchtops from 1 July 2024, and while removing an existing one remains legal, the silica dust rules around disturbing it are taken seriously.
- Cabinets down — overheads first, then bases, unscrewed from the wall rather than ripped, so the plasterboard or render behind survives where it is staying.
- Splashback and floor — tiles off the wall, floor coverings up, and the wall left ready for patching or re-sheeting.
Done in that order, a standard kitchen is a one-day job with the waste gone the same day.
What is different about older Perth kitchens?
Two things: double brick and age. In the brick-and-tile homes that fill suburbs like Morley, Belmont and Midland, splashbacks are tiled straight onto rendered brickwork, so tile removal takes render with it and the wall gets stripped back to brick for the renderer — noisier and heavier than pulling sheeting, but routine. And in homes built before 1990, sheet materials behind cabinets or under old vinyl floors can contain asbestos; if the walk-through flags anything suspect, it gets sampled, and any confirmed asbestos is removed by a licensed removalist as a separate stage before the general strip. That is a WA legal requirement, not an upsell.
What if the kitchen wall is coming out too?
Very common — half of Perth's kitchen renovations are really open-plan conversions. If the plan removes the wall between kitchen and dining, that is internal wall removal and it changes the job: load-bearing checks, possible engineering, and in double-brick homes a masonry saw and several tonnes of rubble. It is entirely doable in the same visit as the kitchen strip, but it has to be quoted as part of the job from the start. Bigger renovations that take out multiple rooms at once are handled as a full strip out demolition — one crew, one bin strategy, one handover.
What are you left with?
An empty room: walls stripped and ready for patching or render, floor cleared, waste gone, site swept. Your cabinetmaker can come in and measure the actual room rather than working around the old kitchen, which is worth doing before final cabinet orders anyway — old kitchens hide out-of-square walls remarkably well.
Fixed written quotes across the Perth metro area, from Applecross to Joondalup. Cost ranges are on the Pricing page — or call (08) 6171 2654 and describe your kitchen.
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Commercial office strip-outs — partitions, ceilings, flooring and fit-out cleared for lease make-good or refurbishment.
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Removal of tiles, timber, carpet and underlay down to the slab or subfloor, swept and ready for the next finish.
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Removal of internal stud and masonry walls to open up a floor plan, with debris cleared from site.
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FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Can I keep using the kitchen until the strip out?
Yes — a kitchen strip out is scheduled as a single visit, so you cook dinner the night before and the room is empty by the next evening in most homes. Plan your temporary kitchen before that day: fridge and microwave relocated, and your plumber booked to cap the water and gas at the start of the job. The gap between strip out and new fit-out is set by your cabinetmaker's lead time, so line the two dates up before booking either.
Is old kitchen cabinetry worth salvaging?
Sometimes. Solid timber doors, good appliances and stone benchtops in one piece can be worth setting aside for resale or reuse in a garage or laundry, and if you want that, say so at the quote stage — careful removal takes longer than demolition. Flat-pack carcasses from the 1990s onward are rarely worth saving once unscrewed. Anything not kept is sorted for recycling where possible: metals separated, clean masonry to crushing yards, the rest to the skip.
What does a kitchen strip out cost in Perth?
Less than most people budget, provided access is straightforward. The price is driven by the size of the kitchen, whether the splashback is tiled onto double brick, benchtop material (stone is heavy and needs more hands), and how far the skip bin sits from the kitchen. Ground-floor suburban kitchens are cheaper to strip than apartment kitchens with lift bookings. It is quoted fixed and in writing after a walk-through, and typical Perth ranges are on our Pricing page.
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