Asbestos Removal in Spring Lake Park

Spring Lake Park homeowners and landlords can call us for testing, licensed removal, the state notice and the waste paperwork, whether the job is one room or a whole building.

Most homes here are older ones. Building peaked in the 1960s, and over 60 percent of the city’s homes went up before 1980.

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A 1960s laundry room with the washer and dryer still in place and floor tiles lifted in patches to show black adhesive

Example project

Basement tile found under pet-stained carpet, lifted before a new floor

Example project

Home: Spring Lake Park rambler, 1960s, whose basement family room is carpeted wall to wall
Original request: Get rid of the stained carpet and put vinyl plank on the slab
Testing: One 9-inch tile chip and one scraping of the black glue beneath it, taken by an MDH-certified inspector
Found: Positive: the tile, and the glue under it as well
Area: Roughly 500 sq ft of floor
Work: Carpet and pad bagged first, tile pried up in whole pieces, glue removed wet
Timeline: Notice five days ahead; two days of removal
Cost: $4,200

In this example, a family has just bought a 1960s rambler in Spring Lake Park, and the previous owner’s pets left the basement carpet badly stained. They peel back one corner before ripping it out, find old 9-inch tile and black glue, and stop right there.

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Asbestos services

Testing first

Remodel sampling or a full pre-demolition inspection, through asbestos testing.

Laundry, kitchen and basement floors

Old tile and black glue come up under floor tile and mastic removal.

Textured ceilings

Positive texture is scraped off under popcorn ceiling removal.

Ducts and heating pipes

Wrap and seam tape fall under furnace, duct and pipe insulation removal.

Cement siding

Test old shingles before re-siding. See asbestos siding removal.

Teardowns and gut remodels

Clearing a building before work starts is demolition and remodel abatement.

Spring Lake Park homes

Nearly a quarter of the city’s homes date from the 1960s, and the 1950s and the 1970s each supplied about another 15 percent. The median year built is 1972. Nearly three quarters of homes are one-unit homes.

Homes from the 1950s to the 1970s

Tile, mastic, texture and duct tape of that era are on MDH’s list.

Rented homes

About 3 in 10 occupied homes are rented.

Census Reporter: Spring Lake Park housing Minnesota Department of Health: asbestos in homes

Permits in Spring Lake Park

The city’s building permit application has no asbestos, MPCA or demolition wording, and its forms page lists no separate demolition form. Call the city about demolition requirements before booking a wrecking date. State asbestos rules apply regardless.

Disposal

Wet, sealed, labeled, manifested and landfilled where asbestos is accepted.

City of Spring Lake Park: building permit application MPCA: asbestos waste management

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 I do the removal myself in Spring Lake Park?

Ask yourself two questions. Do you own the house, and do you live in it? If both answers are yes and it is a single-family home, state law lets you go ahead without a license or a permit fee. MDH still strongly urges hiring a licensed contractor, and we agree. Renting it out, or owning a duplex or apartment building, rules that out.

How soon can a licensed crew start?

The clock is five calendar days from MDH’s receipt of written notice, and only licensed contractors may send it. Ours goes out once the lab confirms the job.

Is a small patch of asbestos safe?

Not necessarily. MDH warns that a patch under the state threshold is unregulated, not safe. In a house the threshold sits at more than 10 linear feet for friable pipe insulation and more than 6 square feet for other friable products. When the material can’t be measured either way, it is more than 1 cubic foot.

Does a house teardown need an MPCA notice?

Not for most Spring Lake Park houses. MPCA wants ten working days of warning when the building is non-residential or has five or more apartments, and a home of up to four units falls outside that. A past life as something other than a home, a set of houses cleared by one owner, or an urban renewal, highway or commercial development project pulls a house back in.

Working in Mounds View? See asbestos removal in Mounds View, or the home page.

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