Demo crew gear in Staten Island

Demo crew gear in Staten Island is the heaviest, most aggressive PPE list on any jobsite. Demo is unpredictable — a wall is full of nails you cannot see, a ceiling drops things you did not plan for, a torch cuts steel that has paint on it that nobody checked. The gear has to assume the worst case. Quazi Supply at 519 Port Richmond Avenue stocks for demo specifically and the crew chiefs from the borough come in here to outfit a new starter on day one. Open eleven to eight, seven days a week.

Boots. Met-guard steel-toe is the right call. The metatarsal — the bones across the top of the foot — is the most-injured part of a demo worker's foot, and the met-guard shield is the only thing that stops a length of pipe or a chunk of brick that lands across the bridge. ASTM F2413 Mt/75 stamp is what you want. Heavy steel toe, not composite — repeated impact wins steel here. Aggressive lug outsole for footing on rubble. Red Wing 2238 King Toe Met-Guard, Thorogood Gen-Flex2 met-guard, Timberland Pro Endurance, Wolverine Overpass — all in stock in stock sizes.

Eight-inch shaft minimum for ankle support on uneven debris. Ten-inch for crews working in deeper rubble. Waterproof if you are in any wet basement or selective demo where water has gotten in.

Pants. Heavy duck. Carhartt Firm Duck in the 13-ounce, Carhartt Double Front B01 in the 12-ounce. Reinforced knee, gusseted crotch. Demo blows out lighter pants in two weeks. Heavier weight, every time.

Tops. Long sleeves. Heavy long sleeves. The cut-resistant sleeve is a separate piece for some crews — a Kevlar or HPPE forearm sleeve worn under a regular long sleeve, especially for sheet-metal demo where the cuts come from above and from the side. Carhartt long-sleeve heavyweight, with sleeves under it. We stock the Kingston and Eurbak cut sleeves in A5 and A7.

Gloves. Heavy leather impact gloves. The combination of a leather palm for abrasion, a TPR shell across the knuckles and the back of the hand, and an A5 cut liner inside is the demo standard. Mechanix M-Pact-style, the Carhartt Impact, the Eurbak heavy impact. The TPR is for the moment a brick falls onto the back of your hand from a height. The cut liner is for the sharp edge you did not see. Demo gets two pairs in the truck minimum because they tear faster than any other glove.

Hard hat. Type II Class E with a chin strap and a face-shield mount. Type II protects from impact from any direction, not just from above — and demo has lateral and behind-you impact more than other trades. The face-shield mount lets you flip a clear shield down for sledge and saw work. We carry the MSA V-Gard Type II and the Pyramex Ridgeline with the face-shield slot.

Face shield. Clear polycarbonate with a chin guard for full face coverage. Goes over the safety glasses, never replaces them — Z87.1 glasses underneath the shield is the right stack. We carry the standard 8-inch and 10-inch shields and replacement films.

Eye protection. Z87.1 safety glasses with side shields, foam-gasketed for dust. Two pairs minimum. Tinted for outdoor demo, clear for inside. Demo dust gets behind plain wraparounds — the foam gasket version is the call.

Hearing protection. Earplugs and earmuffs both. A jackhammer at three feet is 110 dB; a concrete saw is the same. Demo workers lose hearing first and fastest of any trade if they skip the protection. Earmuffs over earplugs for the loud work. We carry the 3M Peltor and the Howard Leight muffs.

Respirator. Half-face with P100 cartridges as the baseline. Full-face for any work with serious airborne hazard — silica-heavy concrete demo, lead-paint suspect surfaces, pre-asbestos-test demo where the suspicion is real. The full-face replaces the safety glasses with a sealed lens. 3M and Honeywell, both stocked.

FR for torch work. If your demo includes any cutting torch work — burning steel, cutting rebar with an oxy-acetylene rig, plasma cutting — the worker holding the torch should be in NFPA 2112 FR clothing. Carhartt FR Force jeans, FR Midweight henley, FR jacket. Cotton over synthetic always for any heat-adjacent work.

Class 2 hi-vis for any street-side demo. Class 3 if you are at night or in low light.

Custom printing on the building. Crew name and shop name on hard hat stickers, embroidered hoodies, screen-printed tees. Apply for a fleet account at /services/fleet-and-crew-accounts/apply for net-30 and volume pricing on five units or more.

Jobsite delivery for crews who blow through gloves and shields by the case. We will run a case to a Brooklyn or Bronx site same day if you call before noon.

519 Port Richmond Ave. Eleven to eight, seven days. Open Sundays — demo Mondays start early and the Sunday-night re-stock is the difference between starting on time and not.