Area survey for a remodel
A kitchen, bath or furnace replacement needs a survey of the area being renovated, not the whole house. The inspector samples the materials that work will touch.
Asbestos Testing and Surveys in Tigard
Typical cost in Tigard
- 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+
Furnace swaps, new floors and opened walls all start the same way: by finding out what the old materials are made of. We line up an accredited inspector, get the lab results back and mark which materials need abatement and which can go out as normal construction debris.
Oregon draws the survey line at January 1, 2004. In Tigard that takes in the 1970s and 1980s houses that make up a large part of the city, along with every home built in the 1990s. Testing covers Tigard, King City and Durham.
Survey types
Full survey before demolition
A demolition needs every suspect material in the building sampled. Owner-occupants have no exemption here.
Survey waiver
DEQ decides case by case whether a home can skip the survey. You ask in writing and back the request up; work waits for DEQ’s written answer, which then stays at the site.
What the lab does
Materials over 1%
A material with more than 1% asbestos is asbestos-containing under Oregon rules.
Accredited labs
Labs need credentials too. Since the start of 2021, Oregon has accepted survey results only from labs that take part in a national asbestos accreditation or proficiency testing program.
No blended layers
Each layer gets its own result. Joint compound, tape and wallboard are the one exception, since they can be analyzed together as a wall system.
Then see duct insulation removal or popcorn ceiling removal, or the home page.
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