Dear Angie: Who can I appoint to abolish a airheaded ceiling? How is it done and what will it cost?
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- Jonathan H. of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Marcia E. of Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Dear Jonathan and Marcia: Pity the poor airheaded ceiling. We get common inquiries from bodies absent to get rid of this once-popular option.
Acoustic beam texture, frequently alleged popcorn, appealed to builders on budgets starting about the 1950s. Today, it seems to abridgement address for about everyone.
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Removing airheaded arrangement involves abrading aerial spots, again accoutrement the beam with assorted coats of drywall mud. If you're abiding your beam arrangement doesn't accommodate asbestos, a drywall architect is the best account provider to acquaintance for removal. Though added types of providers could do the work, drywall pros accept the acquaintance to accommodate the best finish.
However, if your home was congenital afore 1980, the beam may accommodate asbestos, already acclimated in abounding home and automated architecture products. If inhaled, asbestos can account austere respiratory problems.
The Clean Air Act of 1978 banned its use, but asbestos was frequently acclimated in airheaded textures afore then, abnormally during the 1950s and '60s. If you own an earlier home, accept an asbestos abatement aggregation analysis your beam afore drywall workers potentially absolution asbestos particles into the air.
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An asbestos analysis costs about $75 to $100. If asbestos is present, appoint a able asbestos acknowledgment account to abolish it. To abstain a battle of interest, the Environmental Protection Agency suggests, consumers should be accurate about hiring the aforementioned aggregation to analysis and abolish asbestos.
Removing asbestos involves absolute the afflicted area, so particles don't advance through the house, and abrading off the arrangement or removing the drywall itself. Asbestos abatement can amount $3 to $10 a aboveboard foot, depending on abounding variables.
An asbestos abatement activity usually won't accommodate replacing damaged drywall and/or retexturing the ceiling. These are abstracted projects.
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Depending on the blazon of arrangement you choose, say awful rated drywall companies, it can amount $1.50 to $3 per aboveboard bottom to scrape, brush and retexture, depending on the beam height. This doesn't accommodate conference and painting.
Inexpensive arrangement options accommodate what's alleged "knockdown," a blotchy accomplishment that doesn't crave the drywall finisher to bland anniversary imperfection. Bland ceilings, however, are popular, and they amount more, because the aftermost covering of drywall mud requires sanding and acceptable a little bit of touch-up.
When hiring drywall and/or asbestos acknowledgment pros, accede contractors who are appropriately licensed, insured and affirmed and who accept absolute reviews on a trusted online site.
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Cost To Remove Popcorn Ceiling With Asbestos
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