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An old Burnsville ceiling, floor or wall can look exactly like a newer one and still hold asbestos. Testing settles it before a saw or scraper goes near the surface. Our part is booking an MDH-certified inspector and an accredited lab, then handing you a report with a result for each sampled material.
Our testing covers houses, townhomes, apartment buildings and commercial spaces. About 1 in 5 Burnsville homes sits in a building of 50 or more units, and we sample those as readily as a single house in Savage or Prior Lake.
For a kitchen or bath remodel, the inspector takes material from what the work will touch, which might be the layers of flooring, the wall behind the cabinets or the texture on the ceiling. Should the plan grow by a room, the sampling grows with it.
Demolition calls for a full inspection by an MDH-certified inspector, and MPCA applies that to every structure. The inspector works through the entire building, roof and siding included, down to the lowest floor.
Bulk analysis is done by a lab holding NIST NVLAP or AIHA accreditation. Watch the 1 percent mark on your results, since Minnesota law classes anything over it as asbestos-containing material.
Burnsville’s median year built is 1982, several years ahead of an MDH cutoff. Only buildings completed after October 1988 can trade the inspection for a letter, signed by the architect or contractor, confirming no asbestos went into construction. Check your build date before you assume either way.
A homeowner planning a remodel in Minnesota isn’t bound by a general survey rule. The picture changes for employers, for public and commercial buildings and for results over the state limits, each covered below.
Minnesota’s labor rules put this on the employer. Before a company’s workers begin demolition, remodeling or restoration in a place that may contain asbestos, a qualified person surveys the work area, and the employer keeps written proof that the survey was done.
The age of the building doesn’t matter here. Offices, shops and public buildings such as schools must have an asbestos inspection before renovation or demolition, even if they were built recently.
Past the state’s size limits, friable asbestos becomes licensed-contractor work under MDH rules. A plumber, electrician or remodeler can’t take it out on the way to their own job, so an MDH-licensed asbestos contractor has to, unless an owner living in a single-family house does the work. MDH still strongly recommends a licensed contractor even then.
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