Sampling for a remodel
Think of the job’s footprint. Pulling out a kitchen means sampling its ceiling, the wall behind the cabinets and each floor layer, and widening the plan to the hallway adds the hallway’s materials to the list.
Asbestos Testing and Inspections in Eagan
Typical cost in Eagan
- Testing a few materials, up to about 4 samples$300 – $600+
- Asbestos survey before a remodel, one house$400 – $1,000+
- Asbestos survey before tearing down a house$800 – $2,000+
- Survey of a small commercial or apartment building$1,500 – $4,000+
Looking at a ceiling or floor tells you nothing about asbestos, and neither does the year your house was built. A lab does. Small samples are cut by an MDH-certified inspector from each surface the project will touch, an accredited lab reports on every one, and we plan and price removal from those results.
We arrange testing in Eagan, Inver Grove Heights and West St. Paul, whether you own a detached house, a townhome or a rental building.
Ways to test
Full inspection before a teardown
Demolition widens the survey to the entire building. MPCA requires an MDH-certified inspector to go through every structure before it comes down, roofing and siding included.
What the lab reports
The lab holds NVLAP or AIHA accreditation. Minnesota’s cutoff for asbestos-containing material is anything above 1 percent.
Homes built after October 1988
This one matters in Eagan, where the median home was built in 1988. MDH will take a written statement from the architect or contractor confirming no asbestos went into the building, provided construction finished after October 1988, and then no inspection is needed.
Who needs a survey
If you live in the house and hire a contractor for the remodel, a contractor with employees must survey first under the worker-safety rule. Sampling is still the only way to know what the work will disturb.
Your remodeler’s crew
Contractors with employees fall under a worker-safety rule. Before the crew remodels, restores or demolishes anything that may contain asbestos, the company needs a survey by a qualified person.
Commercial and public buildings
Offices, stores, schools and other public or commercial buildings are a separate case, and the year they went up makes no difference. Each one is inspected before renovation or demolition.
Licensed removal
The lab report becomes the basis of our plan. If the job disturbs friable pipe wrap running more than 10 linear feet, more than 6 square feet of friable material on another surface, or, when length and area can’t be measured, more than 1 cubic foot, the removal is licensed work for a contractor that holds an MDH asbestos license.
If the lab report is back and the ceiling texture tested positive, popcorn ceiling removal explains the next step, and our main page covers everything else.
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