Saturday, December 29, 2007

Popcorn

After Christmas, we started the first bit of house modification to our home. Because the house was built in 1970, we suspected that the popcorn ceilings contained asbestos. Our suspicions were confirmed when we sent a sample to the lab for testing. Due to state laws, the two options we had were to either hire a certified asbestos abatement contractor or do it ourselves. The procedure for removing the ceiling may be found here. We performed all the prep work and started removing the popcorn ceilings from the Family Room on Wednesday. We finished removing the popcorn in the Living Room, Dining Room, and Hall on Thursday, December 27. While these are the only areas where the ceilings must be removed, we plan on taking the popcorn ceilings out of the bedrooms this coming week.

1 comment:

~ V ~ said...

So, how bad was it? We want details!