Asbestos Roof Removal in LaPlace, 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 Permit Division on (985) 651-5565. St. John the Baptist Parish publishes a residential permit application and a separate Demolition Permit Application, and it does not publish where a roof covering falls between them. The Permit Division decides, and the asbestos rules are the same either way.

No. It asks for photographs of the structure, the proposed use after demolition, the value and the square footage, confirmation that utilities will be disconnected and capped, and a levee Letter of No Objection where the work is within 1,500 feet of the mainline Mississippi River levee or otherwise applicable. The asbestos rules come from the state and federal regulators.

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, settled once the result 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. 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 EPA definitions do not change at the roof line; it is the OSHA work practices that do.

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.