Asbestos Roof Removal in Metairie, LA

Only a laboratory result on a physical sample can tell you. Age is a prompt rather than an answer: asbestos went into roofing products through the 1970s and into the 1980s, so a Metairie house from that era is worth sampling. The OSHA presumption that older material contains asbestos applies to thermal system insulation and surfacing material, and roofing is neither, so a roof is never presumed either way. It is sampled.

Every asbestos roof is different, so we price it properly rather than quoting a rate that will not hold. Call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 and we will come out, look at the roof and give you an estimate. Each bulk sample runs an estimated $50 to $150, which is the laboratory fee, and the removal itself is priced from the laboratory result, the measured area and the disposal route, written down before any work starts.

Almost certainly, and at any size. The Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors lists asbestos abatement and removal at a value of $1 or more, with no dollar threshold, while residential construction is licensed only once it exceeds $50,000 and commercial construction at $50,000 or more. So a roofer can hold a perfectly valid licence for a large re roof and hold nothing that covers asbestos work. One nuance worth raising with the board directly: its classification description is written around friable asbestos, and an intact cement roof is nonfriable, so ask LSLBC which classification applies to your specific job.

It depends on the building. The federal asbestos air rule applies to facilities, and its definition of a facility excludes residential buildings with four or fewer dwelling units, so a single family Metairie home generally sits outside its ten working day notification requirement, and so does a duplex. Buildings with more than four dwelling units, and work forming part of a wider demolition or renovation project, can fall inside it. We confirm the position with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality before scheduling.

Sometimes, and it is a fair question to ask. Intact, undisturbed asbestos cement roofing is nonfriable and is not shedding fibres in the way damaged or friable material does. The case for removal is usually that the roof has reached the end of its service life, that fixings or battens have failed, or that storm damage has already broken the material. If the covering is sound we will tell you so.

Estimated two to five days end to end. Sampling and laboratory turnaround take most of the first week before any work starts. Removal on a typical Metairie single storey roof is one to two days, and the replacement covering follows immediately behind so the deck is not left open longer than it has to be.

Because it changes what the material legally is. Intact, it is nonfriable. The federal definition of regulated asbestos containing material then catches the two families differently: an asphalt roofing product once it has been sanded, ground, cut or abraded, and a cement product once it has a high probability of being crumbled, pulverised or reduced to powder by the forces acting on it. Either way a stricter set of rules applies. The OSHA roofing provisions require removal in an intact state to the extent feasible for exactly this reason.

Often yes. The OSHA standard has a specific provision for this: removal or repair of sections of intact roofing under 25 square feet does not require wet methods or HEPA vacuuming, as long as manual methods keep the material intact and no visible dust is created. All work on the same roof on the same day counts toward that 25 square feet, so it cannot be split across two visits in a day.

It goes into covered, dust tight containers on site and then to a facility permitted to receive asbestos waste. It is never dropped or thrown to the ground, it is lowered by covered chute or carried down, and anything not intact is bagged or wrapped while it is still on the roof. You get the disposal record along with the laboratory report and the photographs.

Yes. Big Easy Roofing works across all of Metairie, including Old Metairie, Bucktown, the Lake Vista side and the streets off Veterans and Metairie Road, and the older housing stock in those neighbourhoods is exactly where this comes up. Coverage extends to Kenner, Harahan, River Ridge and the rest of unincorporated Jefferson Parish.