Remodeling a home often leads to the disturbance, demolition, or removal of existing building materials within your home. In Colorado you must test building materials that may contain asbestos prior to removing them. The trigger level for this test can be as small as 32 square feet for a residential building. Trust the certified asbestos building inspectors at BLU to perform your inspections today.
Asbestos is a mineral fiber that occurs in rock and soil. Because of its fiber strength and heat resistance asbestos has been used in a variety of building construction materials for insulation and as a fire retardant. Asbestos has also been used in a wide range of manufactured goods, mostly in building materials (roofing shingles, ceiling and floor tiles, paper products, and asbestos cement products).
Asbestos can be found throughout your entire home but is typically found in roof shingles, drywall mud and texture, ceiling and floor tiles, fireplace insulation, and insulation around pipes.
If there is a material in question of containing asbestos, we will take a small sample of the material and send it off to a certified lab for results. If the material comes back positive for asbestos, BLU will guide you towards the process of safely removing or disturbing the construction material.