Asbestos Removal in St. Anthony

Whether you are redoing a kitchen, replacing a furnace or clearing a lot in St. Anthony, we start with testing, remove what the lab confirms and file the state paperwork. Your other trades can then work on clean material.

Over 6 in every 10 homes in St. Anthony predate 1980. Close to 4 in 10 come from just two decades, the 1950s and the 1960s.

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Upper floor of a 1960s split-level with a painted popcorn ceiling, plastic over the floor and walls and the short stair in view

Example project

Popcorn ceilings scraped before old aluminum wiring is replaced

Example project

Home: 1960s one-story house in St. Anthony with aluminum branch wiring
Original request: Replace the aluminum wiring and finish with smooth ceilings
Testing: At least one sample from each textured ceiling area, by an MDH-certified inspector
Found: Asbestos in the texture in the living room, the hall and two bedrooms
Area: About 800 sq ft of ceiling
Work: Rooms sealed under negative air, the texture kept damp and scraped into bags
Timeline: Five-day notice, then four working days
Cost: $7,600

In this example, an inspection of a 1960s house in St. Anthony turns up aluminum branch wiring. The electrician will open the ceiling at every light and smoke alarm box, and the owners want smooth ceilings when the work is done.

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Asbestos removal services

Asbestos testing

A remodel needs samples of what will be disturbed, and a teardown needs the whole building inspected. Start with asbestos testing.

Popcorn and textured ceilings

Popcorn texture is on MDH’s list of materials to sample. If yours tests positive, popcorn ceiling removal covers the job.

Entry, kitchen and basement floors

Older entries, kitchens and basements can have tile or sheet flooring in layers. We sample each one, and our floor tile and mastic removal page explains how positive layers come up.

Furnace and boiler insulation

Wrapped pipes, boiler jackets and taped ducts come off under boiler, furnace and pipe insulation removal.

Attic fill

Attic fill that looks like small brown, gray or gold pebbles may be vermiculite. See vermiculite attic insulation removal.

Larger remodels and teardowns

Opening plaster or drywall, or taking a building down, falls under remodel and demolition abatement.

St. Anthony homes

Homes in St. Anthony are newer on the whole than those in Minneapolis. The median year built here is 1972, and under 1 in 10 homes were built before 1950.

St. Anthony mixes houses with large buildings. One-unit homes make up roughly half the total, and buildings of five or more units hold close to 45 percent.

Houses from the 1950s to the 1970s

If your house dates from then, sample the floor tile, mastic, ceiling texture and joint compound before work begins. Each room needs its own results, because a clean one tells you nothing about the room beside it.

Apartment and condo buildings

Buildings with five or more units fall outside MPCA’s exclusion for houses, so demolition or renovation there needs an MPCA notice ten working days before regulated asbestos is disturbed.

Census Reporter: St. Anthony housing Census Reporter: Minneapolis housing MPCA: asbestos and demolition fact sheet

Permits in St. Anthony

The city’s permits page lists demolition as a permit type but gives no asbestos details. State rules still apply. MPCA wants asbestos out of a building at least two days before it is demolished, so ask the city what its demolition permit needs and plan the abatement to finish first.

City of St. Anthony: permits MPCA: asbestos and demolition fact sheet

Entry hall of a 1960s house with old sheet vinyl cut back, plastic taped along the walls and a half bath door open

Frequently asked questions

Can a homeowner do the work in St. Anthony?

Minnesota exempts one group, owners who live in their own single-family house, from the license and permit fee. MDH still strongly recommends a licensed asbestos contractor. Landlords and owners of duplexes or apartment buildings are not covered.

What paperwork should I keep?

MDH suggests asking for the contractor’s Minnesota license, the MDH permit, the waste manifests and the air-sampling lab report. Keep them with your house records.

Is asbestos found mid-project an emergency?

No. MDH does not count a discovery during a remodel as an emergency, so licensed removal still waits for the five-day notice.

Where does the waste go?

It is kept wet, packed in leak-tight, labeled containers and sent with a manifest to a landfill that accepts asbestos.

Own a home in Columbia Heights? Our page on asbestos removal in Columbia Heights is written for you, and the home page covers the rest.

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