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About Superior Floor Demolition
The owner is the one on the job.
Ricky Ray runs Superior Floor Demolition out of a yard on Mill Creek Road in Higden, up by Greers Ferry. He answers the phone. He walks the job. He writes the number. And when the tools are running, he is standing in the room.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Who you are hiring
You get a man, not a call centre.
Most of what people want to know before they hand a demolition contract to a stranger has the same answer, and it is not a slogan.
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The number on this page is his phone
There is no dispatcher standing between you and the work. No call centre. No answering service taking a message for somebody who has never seen your building. Ricky books the walkthrough, Ricky writes the number, and Ricky is on site while the tools are running.
That has a practical consequence people notice on the second week. The man who priced the job is the man standing in it, so nobody has to be told what was agreed. When a general contractor moves a pour date, or a facility manager needs the loud part pushed to a Saturday, the conversation happens once, with the person who can actually say yes.
- No call centre
- No answering service
- One point of contact
- The owner on site
- Same phone from quote to sweep
- Decisions made once
The yard sits at 29 Mill Creek Rd in Higden, in the hills above Greers Ferry Lake. It is a yard and not a showroom — machines go out of it, and debris does not come back to it. There is nothing to visit and nothing to look at, which is the honest description of a demolition outfit that spends its week in other people's buildings.
The work is commercial first. General contractors, property and facility managers, flooring installers and dealers. Homeowners mid-remodel are real customers and always have been, but they are not what this business is built around, and it would be dishonest to write the page as though they were.
Estimating
How a number gets to you.
Three steps, and none of them is a guess.
You call
Tell him what is coming out and what is going in behind it. Square footage, floor covering, what the building is doing while the work happens. If it is a tenant changeover, say who is still trading next door.
He walks it
On site within two business days. He lifts a corner, checks the substrate, works out how debris gets from the room to the truck, and finds the things a floor plan does not show.
You get it in writing
The written number lands the same day he walks it. After that it holds. It moves only if you change the scope, and only in writing.
He will not price a demolition off a photograph. A photo does not tell you whether the tile is set in thinset or sitting on a two-inch mud bed. It does not tell you there is a second floor under the first, or that the cutback mastic under the VCT is going to come up in sheets in one bay and in dust in the next. It does not show a spalled slab under carpet, or a self-leveler pour nobody mentioned.
A number written off a picture is a guess, and a guess turns into a change order on the day the machine arrives. Walking it first is slower for him and cheaper for you. That is the entire reason the walkthrough exists.
If your date is tight, say so on the call. The walkthrough is the thing that gets scheduled first.
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Where the line is.
Anything structural, anything load-bearing, and anything that needs a permit he did not price is not his lane.
He says that at the walkthrough. Not halfway through. Not on the Friday you were expecting a clean slab. If a wall is holding something up, if the slab is doing structural work, if the job needs a permit nobody has pulled, that is a day-one conversation — while it is still a scheduling problem instead of an argument with a machine sitting idle in the car park.
Asbestos sits outside the number in the same way. The test is arranged and paid for by the customer. It is not folded into his price, and you will hear that before you sign rather than after.
- Structural or load-bearing removal. Not his lane, and he will name the trade it belongs to.
- Anything needing a permit he did not price. Raised at the walkthrough, not mid-job.
- Asbestos testing. Arranged and paid for by the customer. Not in the number.
- Dust cleanup beyond the work zone. Not included unless it is quoted.
Saying this out loud costs him jobs. Not saying it costs you a week, so it goes on the page.
Straight answers
What people ask before they hire.
These are the questions that actually get asked on the phone, in roughly the order they get asked.
Will I be able to reach you once the tools are running?
Yes. It is the same number you called the first time, and it is his. There is nobody in between to leave a message with who does not know your job, and no queue to sit in while a machine is running in your building.
Is the price going to move?
Not unless you move it. The written number holds. The one thing that changes it is a change of scope, and that has to be in writing before it counts.
No verbal add-ons. No line item appearing on an invoice that was never discussed. If you ask for something extra halfway through, you will be told what it costs before it is done.
What happens if something is wrong after you have gone?
He comes back and fixes it.
That is the whole answer, and it is deliberately not dressed up as more than that.
Do you want money up front?
Depending on the job, but generally no money up front. Whichever one yours is, you will know when he hands you the number — not after you have committed your date to it.
Are you the cheapest bid on the table?
No, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. The price sits mid-market on purpose.
What sits inside it is containment before the first tool runs, a crew that turns up on the day it said it would, the debris gone, and a slab an installer will accept. The cheapest demolition bid on a commercial floor usually finds its missing money in the change orders, and the general contractor pays it either way.
Do I have to empty the building first?
No. Occupied buildings are normal work here — tenants still trading, staff still at desks, a kitchen still serving lunch on the other side of the plastic. Night and weekend work exists for the spaces that cannot lose a business day.
The contract
What is in the number.
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One contract. One crew.
The tear-out, the debris and the sweep are one job here, not three separate ones with a gap between them where your schedule goes to die. Nobody waits on a second contractor to turn up with a truck.
- Containment first. Plastic seals the work zone and the air returns are covered before anything comes down.
- Grinding and shot blasting run to vacuum. Dust is collected at the tool, where it is made.
- Debris hauled off. It leaves with the crew that made it.
- The slab swept. What the next trade walks into is a floor, not a site.
Two services
What we tear out.
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Floor demolition
Ceramic, porcelain and stone tile, off thinset or off a mud bed. VCT and cutback mastic. Sheet vinyl. Glue-down hardwood and nail-down over sleepers. Carpet, pad and tack strip. Epoxy and urethane coatings, terrazzo and quarry tile. Self-leveler, gypcrete, sound mat and underlayment. Cove base, transitions and thresholds.
Ride-on scrapers, shot blasters, grinders and saw-cutting where the slab needs it — with the substrate left in a condition an installer will actually sign off on, because the moisture test and the flatness are somebody's problem next week either way.
See what we tear out →
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Interior demolition
Non-structural walls, ceiling grid and tile, millwork, casework and built-in shelving. Restroom and break-room strip-outs. Fixtures, old equipment, and the cabling nobody has traced since the last tenant moved out.
Retail and office buildouts taken back to shell, with the load-out and the haul-off in the same contract as the demolition. On a tenant changeover that matters more than the tear-out itself, because the route the debris takes out of the building is what decides whether you keep your dates.
See what we tear out →Who calls
Four people dial this number.
General contractors
The floor is on the critical path and everything behind it is waiting. What a GC buys here is a date that holds and a substrate the flooring sub will not reject on arrival — plus somebody who will say at the walkthrough that a wall is structural, instead of finding out with a hammer.
Property and facility managers
The building is occupied and the tenants are still trading. Containment, air returns covered, and the noisy work moved to hours that do not cost anybody a day of business. The complaints a manager fields the next morning are the real measure of the job.
Flooring installers and dealers
They sold the new floor. They do not want the tear-out, and they should not have to eat the risk on what is under it. Subbing the demolition out means the mud bed, the mastic and the haul-off stop being their margin problem.
Homeowners mid-remodel
Real work, and welcome, but never the lead. A house with tile over a mud bed in every room is the same job as a small commercial floor, and it gets the same containment and the same written number.
If your job does not look like any of those four, call anyway — it takes a minute to find out.
Get a Free QuoteCoverage
Where we work.
The whole state of Arkansas, plus the western half of Tennessee. Higden is the yard, not the boundary — travel is worked out at the walkthrough and it is in the written number before you agree to anything.
Arkansas
Statewide
- Little Rock
- North Little Rock
- Conway
- Searcy
- Heber Springs
- Greers Ferry
- Clinton
- Batesville
- Cabot
- Jacksonville
- Benton
- Bryant
- Hot Springs
- Russellville
- Jonesboro
- Fort Smith
- Fayetteville
- Springdale
- Rogers
- Bentonville
- Pine Bluff
- El Dorado
- Texarkana
- Mountain Home
West Tennessee
Western half of the state
- Memphis
- Bartlett
- Germantown
- Collierville
- Millington
- Covington
- Jackson
- Dyersburg
- Union City
- Brownsville
- Ripley
- Humboldt
- Martin
- Paris
- Savannah
Towns are examples, not a fence. If it is in Arkansas or west Tennessee, ask.
See the full service area
Talk to the man who will be on the job.
One call. One walkthrough inside two business days. One written number the same day, and it does not move unless you move it.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Call the owner direct(501) 259-7997