Learn what happens after your quote request, from choosing UJUNKY as your contractor through the three City of Milwaukee requirements, the permit package, scheduling, demolition, and the inspections that close the job out.
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Process overview
Review the step-by-step roadmap for house and building demolition in Milwaukee.
Start with clarity
Call UJUNKY and we’ll explain exactly where you are: estimate, disconnect letters, asbestos inspection, water shutoff, permit package, deposit, scheduling, demolition, or final inspections.
Plain-language steps
House and building demolition requires more than equipment. UJUNKY helps customers understand the quote, asbestos inspection, utility disconnects, permit package, deposit, schedule, demolition, and cleanup process.
We review the project and send an official estimate.
UJUNKY reviews the property, project scope, access, condition, and goals, then sends an official demolition estimate so you understand the expected demolition work before moving forward.
Approve UJUNKY as your demolition contractor.
Once you are ready to proceed, you approve UJUNKY as your demolition contractor. That moves the project into the three City of Milwaukee requirements below, then permit, scheduling, demolition, and cleanup.
Call WE Energies and tell them the building is coming down.
Call WE Energies and let them know UJUNKY will be tearing down the building. They send you their paperwork, then physically remove the gas and electric devices from the structure. Only after that mechanical disconnection do they issue the office disconnection letters, and those letters go into the permit submission. Start this one first. WE Energies has to send a crew out, so it is usually the longest step in the whole process.
Approve UJUNKY to order the inspection.
House and building demolition requires an asbestos inspection report before the raze permit package can move forward. You approve UJUNKY to order it and we handle the rest. Once the report is back we will know whether abatement is required. If it is, that is a separate cost, and it cannot be quoted until the report identifies what is actually there.
Call the water department and have the water shut off.
Call the City of Milwaukee water department and have the water shut off at the street. Tell them the property is being demolished so they route it correctly. If someone mentions a plumbing permit, that part is ours. We pull the plumbing permit and it is included in your price.
Handle asbestos abatement before demolition.
When asbestos is identified, abatement has to be completed before demolition can begin. Cost and timing depend entirely on what the inspection report finds, which is why it is quoted separately. UJUNKY explains the next step and helps coordinate the abatement path.
The letters and the report come to us.
Send UJUNKY the WE Energies disconnect letters, the asbestos inspection report, confirmation that the water is shut off, and any abatement completion documentation. New UJUNKY customers get a private page for their project where they can upload each document as it arrives and see exactly what is still outstanding.
We prepare the permit and block your date.
With the three requirements satisfied, you pay a deposit and UJUNKY blocks scheduling and prepares the permit package. That includes the plumbing permit, erosion permit, water affidavit, bonding, and insurance documentation, all of it handled by us and included in your price.
A city inspector documents the property first.
Before demolition begins, a city inspector visits the address and photographs the property as it stands. This is called the pre-demolition inspection. It is a formality meant to record the starting condition and raise anything unusual, and it does not normally hold up the schedule.
The building comes down and the debris leaves.
The structure comes down and the debris is hauled off. Hauling is a multi-day operation on a house, not an afternoon, and it continues until the site is a clear open hole ready for the first inspection.
Open hole, cap and seal, then backfill.
The back half of the job is paced by inspections rather than by machines. First the open cleared hole is inspected. Then the water line and sewer are capped and sealed, which is inspected. Then the hole is filled, graded, seeded, and covered with hay, which is inspected. Each one has to pass before the next begins.
The permit record is public and searchable.
The City of Milwaukee does not issue a completion letter, and neither does anyone else, which surprises buyers, lenders, and general contractors who ask for one. What does exist is the public permit record. Search the property address at the city permit portal and the status of every permit and inspection on that property is visible without an account. The Department of Neighborhood Services condemnation inspectors can also confirm completion by phone.
The City of Milwaukee needs three things before it will issue a raze permit for a house or building: WE Energies disconnect letters for gas and electric, an asbestos inspection report, and the water shut off at the street. Two of the three start with a phone call from the property owner, which is why UJUNKY walks every customer through them at the start.
You call WE Energies for the disconnect letters, approve the asbestos inspection, and call the water department to have the water shut off at the street. UJUNKY orders the inspection, prepares and submits the raze permit package, and pulls the plumbing permit, erosion permit, water affidavit, bonding, and insurance documentation.
No. UJUNKY pulls the plumbing permit and it is included in your price. Property owners are sometimes told the shutoff permit has to come from a licensed master plumber and assume that is something they need to arrange. It is not. Call the water department to have the water shut off at the street and leave the permit to us.
The WE Energies disconnect letters. WE Energies has to send a crew to physically remove the gas and electric devices from the building, and the office disconnection letters are only issued after that work is done. Start that call first, because it sets the pace for everything else.
Abatement has to be completed before demolition can begin. The cost and the timing depend entirely on what the inspection report identifies, which is why abatement is quoted separately and cannot be priced before the report comes back. UJUNKY explains the next step and helps coordinate it.
A city inspector visits first and photographs the property, which is called the pre-demolition inspection. Then the building comes down and the debris is hauled off over several days. From there the job is paced by three inspections: the open cleared hole, capping and sealing the water and sewer, and backfilling, grading, and seeding the lot.
The City of Milwaukee does not issue a completion letter, which catches out buyers, lenders, and general contractors who ask for one. The permit record is public instead. Search the property address on the city permit portal and every permit and inspection on that property is visible without an account. The Department of Neighborhood Services condemnation inspectors can also confirm it by phone.
Why UJUNKY is a clear permit-process choice
House and building demolition can stall when owners do not know which documents, inspections, disconnects, permits, and deposits come next. UJUNKY helps organize the path from estimate to demolition and cleanup.
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This guide is built for larger structural projects, but the same planning mindset supports all demolition work.
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