Typical cost in Plano
Plano Asbestos Removal tests and removes asbestos popcorn ceilings in Plano houses, townhomes and rental units, for one room or a whole floor. Sprayed acoustic texture belongs to the textured coatings EPA lists as a possible asbestos source, and it cannot be judged by its look or by the year on the deed, so a lab result on your ceiling comes before any scraping.
Ceiling texture removal for a repaint, new recessed lights or a smooth modern finish starts the same way. Besides Plano, we take on popcorn ceiling work in McKinney and Addison.
About 16,250 Plano homes were built in the 1970s. In a house of that age, the inspector samples the texture before anyone sprays it with water or puts a scraper to it. If it is positive, you choose between removal and leaving a sound ceiling undisturbed; if it is negative, a drywall finisher can take the job from there.
About 25,450 Plano homes date from the 1980s, more than from any earlier decade. Questions such as whether a 1986 ceiling can contain asbestos have no cut-off-date answer, and we will not invent one. A test of your ceiling settles it, and a negative result spares you the cost of full abatement.
When you are living in the house, we work one area at a time. The room is sealed with plastic, the heating and air conditioning serving it is turned off, as EPA advises, and the texture is kept wet as it comes down so the dust stays inside the containment. Furniture comes out before setup, and anything that cannot move is wrapped.
A single-family rental, or a building with four or fewer units, falls outside the state’s asbestos survey, notification and licensing rules, but OSHA’s asbestos standard still covers any crew paid to do the work. Doing the ceilings while the house is empty avoids working around tenants and their belongings. For buildings with five or more units the rules change; see apartment and multifamily abatement.
EPA recommends testing a suspect material when it is damaged or when a renovation will disturb it, with samples taken by a trained, accredited inspector and analyzed by a qualified laboratory; it does not recommend taking samples yourself. The real risk with popcorn ceilings is the shortcut, where the texture is wetted and scraped without a test. If it contains asbestos, that spreads fibers through the house, and EPA warns against sweeping or vacuuming the debris.
A positive ceiling that is intact and will not be drilled or cut can also be left alone. That keeps the asbestos in place, so any later work that scrapes or cuts the ceiling, such as a new fixture, has to treat it as asbestos-containing again.
Some may and others will not. The build year alone does not decide it, and no source we rely on gives a safe cut-off date for ceiling texture. A sample from your ceiling, analyzed by a qualified lab, is the only reliable answer.
If the texture tests negative, removing it is ordinary drywall and paint work. If it tests positive, have it removed by a trained asbestos crew using wet methods and containment. A single-family home is outside the Texas asbestos licensing rules, but OSHA’s asbestos standard still covers any crew you hire.
The ranges at the top of this page are a starting point, and your written estimate comes from the ceiling itself. The main factors are the ceiling area, ceiling height and any stairwell, whether the rooms are empty or furnished, how much containment is needed, the lab results, the finish you want afterward and disposal at a landfill that accepts asbestos waste.
Opening walls in the same rooms? See drywall and joint compound removal. Every service is listed on the Plano Asbestos Removal homepage.
Tell us which rooms have the texture, roughly when the house was built, whether the ceiling has been painted or patched and whether it has been tested. Mention if the house is a rental or if lights or fans are part of the same project. We'll get back to you soon with an estimate or any questions we have. Estimates are free and there's no obligation.
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