Classrooms & Corridors
VCT, sheet vinyl, carpet tile and the adhesive under all of it. Sequenced wing by wing so the building keeps working while a section comes apart.
Floor demolition →Schools & Churches · Arkansas
Gym Floor Out
Friday. Clean Slab Monday.
Superior Floor Demolition tears out tile, VCT, carpet, glued hardwood and gym flooring from Arkansas schools, fellowship halls and sanctuaries — then hauls it off the same job. Owner-operated by Ricky Ray. He walks the building before anyone quotes a number.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Owner-operatedRicky prices it. Ricky runs it. No handoff to a stranger.
One trip, one billTear-out and haul-off are the same job, not two contractors.
InsuredCertificate available on request before we set foot in the building.
Floors are the main job
Not a sideline bolted onto general demo. Tear-out is what this company does, so it gets priced and scheduled like real work.
Insured, certificate on request
Your business office or diocese can have the certificate in hand before the first pallet of tools rolls in.
Written scope, written price
What comes out, what stays, what it costs. Signed before demo day so nobody argues in the hallway later.
Works around occupancy
Containment goes up. Class stays in session on the other side of the plastic. Sunday service still happens.
What comes out
Every Floor a School
or Church Owns
Institutional buildings are layered. A 1970s sanctuary can hold carpet over vinyl over cutback adhesive over the original slab. A school cafeteria can be VCT glued so hard the mastic outlasted the tile. We take the whole stack down to bare concrete.
Gyms & Multipurpose
Glued and nailed hardwood, rubber athletic flooring, poured urethane. Sleepers and nailers pulled, fasteners out, slab ground back for whatever goes down next.
Interior demolition →Sanctuaries & Fellowship Halls
Carpet, pad and tack strip pulled and rolled. Pew-anchor patches and old tile handled without cracking the slab you are keeping.
Occupied buildings →Kitchens & Cafeterias
Quarry tile, thick mortar beds, epoxy coatings. The heavy stuff most crews quote high and then walk away from halfway through.
Kitchen tear-out →Interior Strip-Out
When the floor is part of a bigger remodel: partitions, ceilings, casework and fixtures out alongside it, so one crew owns the whole demo scope.
Interior demo, Little Rock →Haul-Off
Debris leaves with us. No pile in the parking lot on the first day of school, no dumpster sitting through Easter week.
All building types →Why this goes wrong
The Summer Window
Is Not Negotiable
School floors get replaced in a nine-week window and a church gets one week between Easter and the wedding calendar. Miss it and the building opens with plywood down and a general contractor eating the delay.
- Ghosting after the deposit. The man who quoted it never shows up on the job.
- Change orders once the floor is open. A second layer nobody scoped, and suddenly the number moved.
- Dust through the whole building. No containment, and now the office wing needs cleaning too.
- A slab the next trade cannot work on. Adhesive ridges and fastener stubs left behind for the flooring installer to argue about.
We say the hard part first. Demo is dusty, it is loud, and it costs money. What it should never be is a surprise.
We tear it out. You get a clean slab.
Containment first, demo second, haul-off third. The building on the other side of the plastic keeps doing its job the whole time.
How the job runs
The Walkthrough
Standard
Two halves. Ricky settles the scope and the number before anything is signed, then the crew runs the tear-out on the dates you were given. No stage happens out of order.
Before demo day
01
Ricky walks it
He measures the rooms, cuts a test square to see how many layers are down, and looks at how you get a trailer to the door. Free, and he does it himself.
02
Written scope and price
Square footage, what material comes out, what stays, where debris goes, what the slab looks like at handover. Fixed. Change orders only if you change the scope.
03
Dates locked to your calendar
Around finals, around VBS, around the Sunday schedule. Institutions run on a calendar and the demo has to fit inside it, not the other way round.
On site
04
Containment goes up
Plastic sealed at the doorways, walk-off protection down the corridor you are using. The wing you are still teaching in stays clean.
05
Tear-out
Floor covering, underlayment and adhesive off the slab. Door frames, jambs and base cabinets protected — we work around them, not through them.
06
Haul-off and sweep
Debris loaded and gone. Slab swept and handed to your flooring contractor ready to prep. One crew, one bill, one date.
What it looks like
Slab Down
To Bare Concrete
Demolition is a before-and-after trade. Here is the material coming up, the containment holding, and the surface the next contractor actually receives.
The awkward questions
Answered Before
You Have To Ask
Every facilities director and every building committee arrives with the same four worries. Here they are, straight.
Will the dust get through the whole building?
Not if containment is done right. Plastic gets sealed at every opening into the work area and the corridor route is protected. Demo is dusty inside the containment. That is where it stays.
Will you damage the subfloor or the door frames?
The slab is the deliverable, so it gets treated like one. Frames, jambs, casework and anything staying gets protected before a tool comes out. Damage from careless tear-out is our problem to fix, not yours.
What if there is asbestos under the tile?
Old institutional buildings often have it, and 9x9 tile with black cutback is the classic. Testing and licensed abatement are arranged separately by the owner before we start. We do not disturb suspect material and we will tell you plainly when we see it.
Will the price move once the floor is open?
The written scope holds. Ricky cuts a test square during the walkthrough specifically so hidden layers get found before the number is set. If you add rooms or change what comes out, that is a new line — and you approve it first.
What the number covers
No Price On
A Page
Floor tear-out prices by square footage, by how many layers are glued down, by access, and by whether the building is occupied. Anyone quoting a school gym off a phone call is guessing. So there is no price list here — there is a walkthrough.
In the quote
- Floor covering removal, room by room, listed by square footage
- Underlayment, adhesive and mastic taken back to bare slab
- Dust containment and protection of surfaces that stay
- Loading, hauling and disposal of the debris
- Slab swept and handed over to the next trade
- Start date and finish date, in writing
Not in the quote — and we say so up front
- Asbestos testing and licensed abatement (owner arranges, before we start)
- New flooring, leveling compound or moisture mitigation
- Structural repair to a slab that was already failing
- Permits your general contractor is pulling for the wider project
If something belongs to another trade, we name that trade instead of quietly folding it into a number.
Where we work
Statewide From
Higden, Arkansas
Superior Floor Demolition runs out of Higden and covers the entire state of Arkansas, plus the western half of Tennessee. Central Arkansas schools, Delta churches, Ozark campuses — the trailer goes where the job is.
If your building sits outside Arkansas or west Tennessee, say so on the call and Ricky will tell you straight whether it is a job he can take.
Questions we get
Straight Answers
The ones facilities directors, principals and building committees actually ask on the walkthrough.
Why do churches have schools attached to them?
Different rooms, one building — and one demo scope.Whatever the reason a congregation runs a school, the practical result for us is a building with a sanctuary, classrooms, a kitchen and a gym under one roof, each with a different floor glued down. We quote them as one job and sequence them so the parts still in use stay open.
Can you work while the school is in session?
Yes — containment goes up and the rest of the building keeps running.Plastic sealed at the doorways, protected corridor route, work confined to the wing being torn out. Plenty of institutional work happens over breaks, but occupied-building demo is a normal week here, not a special request.
What is under a 1970s church floor?
Usually more layers than anyone remembers.Carpet over vinyl over cutback adhesive is the common stack. Ricky cuts a test square during the walkthrough so the layer count is known before the price is set. Suspect material stops the tear-out until the owner has it tested and abated.
Do I have to pay money up front?
The walkthrough and the quote cost nothing.Ricky comes out, measures, and gives you a written scope and price with no obligation and no deposit taken to produce it. Payment terms are agreed with the scope, in writing, before demo day.
How long does a gym floor take?
It depends on square footage, layers and access — and you get dates in writing.A nailed hardwood gym with sleepers is a different job from carpet tile in a classroom wing. The walkthrough is where the honest duration comes from. What you will not get is a vague "couple of weeks" and then silence.
Do you handle the haul-off too?
Yes. Tear-out and haul-off are one job.Debris is loaded and gone, so nobody is standing over a pile in the parking lot waiting on a second contractor. One crew, one bill, one completion date. That is the whole point of hiring a floor sub instead of a general demo outfit.
Start here
Get Ricky In The
Building First
He walks the school, the sanctuary or the gym, cuts a test square, and hands you a written scope and price. No number gets quoted over the phone.
(501) 259-7997Free, no-obligation on-site quote. Insured — certificate available on request.