New flooring- Asbestos abatement?

[Anonymous]

We just bought an older home (built in 1970) and want to replace the vinyl linoleum in the kitchen with hardwood. We would have to tear up who knows how many layers of older floors first. Has anyone done this before and if so did you do asbestos abatement or testing? We have young kids so want to do it safely. If you did it how much $ was it?

[Anonymous]

We did testing for lead and asbestos, about $450. We had three layers of vinyl, one had asbestos backing. Removal for 180 sq feet was around $900.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, are you in NoVA? Can you recommend the abatement company and testing company?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, not in the area.

[Anonymous]

Why not just cover the current floor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not just cover the current floor?

I've heard this is the safest/easiest, but we want to open the floor plan and integrate it with hardwoods in other rooms. It needs to be level, right?

[Anonymous]

We did this in the basement, used David Rymers. Great guy. Was about $1000 for a day's work, testing, air filtering, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks, are you in NoVA? Can you recommend the abatement company and testing company?

Jack Geller for testing. Loved him. Sent two friends to him, and now we are all jack cheerleaders.

He doesn't do remediation. Conflict of interest.

[Anonymous]

David Rymers for testing is another option. (LVI Environmental). We are in MD, not sure if he goes to VA.

He does also do remediation, but we saw the lab results showing us many of our samples were negative, so in this case I don't feel like the conflict was a problem for us.

[Anonymous]

I used Gina Majors for testing asbestos & mold. She was honest, lower price than many of the others and I had the lab results pretty quickly. I felt confident with her work. She was also flexible with her schedule which worked well for me because I couldn't take a lot of time off for it.

Never hire the same person to test and remediate! The ethical ones won't do it as its a conflict of interest.

http://www.airqualitymd.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used Gina Majors for testing asbestos & mold. She was honest, lower price than many of the others and I had the lab results pretty quickly. I felt confident with her work. She was also flexible with her schedule which worked well for me because I couldn't take a lot of time off for it.

Never hire the same person to test and remediate! The ethical ones won't do it as its a conflict of interest.

http://www.airqualitymd.com/

+1

[Anonymous]

We're in Arlington. I cut up pieces of our flooring, put the pieces in separate plastic bags, and mailed them to EMSL
http://www.emsl.com/index.cfm?nav=Services&action=list&ServiceCategoryID=3

There was asbestos in one sample, and we had it removed by Sustainable Occupation Services
http://sosdcmetro.com/services.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in Arlington. I cut up pieces of our flooring, put the pieces in separate plastic bags, and mailed them to EMSL
http://www.emsl.com/index.cfm?nav=Services&action=list&ServiceCategoryID=3

There was asbestos in one sample, and we had it removed by Sustainable Occupation Services
http://sosdcmetro.com/services.htm

How much did the removal process cost? How long did it take? Was it a large area?

[Anonymous]

Our house was built in the 1970s. In the basement, we have one layer of vinyl tiles and concrete below that. We want to remove the vinyl tiles and put ceramic tile. Should we test for lead and asbestos or is that not necessary if it is just one layer like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used Gina Majors for testing asbestos & mold. She was honest, lower price than many of the others and I had the lab results pretty quickly. I felt confident with her work. She was also flexible with her schedule which worked well for me because I couldn't take a lot of time off for it.

Never hire the same person to test and remediate! The ethical ones won't do it as its a conflict of interest.

http://www.airqualitymd.com/

How much did the testing cost? Did she test your entire house, or just your tile flooring?

How much did it cost to remove asbestos tile (if that's what you did)? TIA!