Asbestos Roof Removal in Kenner, LA

Only from a laboratory result on a physical sample. OSHA defines presumed asbestos containing material as thermal system insulation and surfacing material in buildings constructed no later than 1980, so roofing material is not presumed asbestos containing simply because of its age. The year the house was built, and any records of earlier roof work, tell you whether to sample. They do not tell you the answer.

That is a question for the Inspection and Code Enforcement Department on (504) 468-4062, option 1. The City publishes a Building Permit Application and a separate Demolition or Relocation of Structures Application, and it does not publish where a roof covering falls between them. The department decides, and the asbestos rules are the same either way.

The City says the demolition of any building must be permitted and that cost varies, so there is no published figure. Any contractor quoting you a Kenner permit fee before the application has been reviewed is guessing.

The sample is estimated at $50 to $150 for each distinct material. The removal itself is priced per roof from the laboratory result, the measured area and the disposal route, as a line on top of the replacement roof that follows it, so it is not something anyone can quote off a rate card.

There is no dollar threshold to hide behind. Louisiana licenses asbestos abatement and removal under hazardous materials at a value of $1 or more, against $50,000 or more for ordinary commercial construction, and carries no friable exception in that threshold. The board subclassification also requires Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality asbestos certification and is written about friable asbestos, so which classification a given roof calls for is a question for the board rather than an assumption we make for you. What the result changes is which classification and which work practices apply, settled with the board and the department once it is in, and named on your quote.

It is a work practice exemption, not a licence exemption. Intact roofing under 25 square feet can be removed without wet methods or HEPA vacuuming, as long as manual methods are used that keep the material intact and no visible dust is created. The standard then requires all removal and repair work on the same roof on the same day to be counted together.

No, and doing it changes the problem. The OSHA construction standard requires roofing material to be removed in an intact state to the extent feasible. Separately, sanding, grinding, cutting or abrading an asphalt product, or crumbling a cement one, brings it inside the EPA definition of regulated asbestos containing material at 40 CFR 61.141, with the disposal obligations that go with that.

They are sampled with the roof, because the same panel often runs round the eave and down the wall. Worth knowing: cementitious siding, shingles and transite panels on building exteriors other than roofs sit under a different set of OSHA work practices from the roof itself. The material keeps its EPA classification the whole way down; it is the work practices that change at the roof line.

Three things: the laboratory report naming the analysis method, the waste record showing where the material went, and photographs of the roof before and after. Those are what demonstrate the job was done correctly, and they matter at survey and at sale.