Apartment and Rental Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Austin, TX

Count doors, not square feet

The rule is about dwelling units in a single building, not about how many properties you own or how big the job is. A duplex, a triplex and a fourplex are all outside the definition. A five unit building is inside it, even if you are only doing one ceiling in one apartment.

The trap is repetition. An owner who did a fourplex last year assumes the eight unit block runs the same way, and it does not. Marisa asks for the unit count on the first call before anything else, which occasionally annoys people until they hear why.

The same-site rule that catches landlords out

There is a second threshold that surprises people who own several small buildings. Under the federal rules, where two or more residential buildings sit on the same site under the same owner or operator, they are treated as a single installation rather than as separate residences.

So four duplexes on one tract is not automatically four exempt duplexes. If that describes your holding, get the question answered properly before you schedule anything, because finding out halfway through is the expensive version.

Notification, and the timing it forces

Where the rules do apply, notification goes to the Department of State Health Services no fewer than ten working days before the work starts. Ten working days is two calendar weeks, and it is not a formality that can be compressed because a tenant is moving in.

There is also a NESHAP quantity threshold of 160 square feet of surface area for renovation work, which a ceiling job reaches quickly. If your building is in scope, plan the schedule around the notification rather than the other way round.

What we do and do not do here

For houses, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes we do the whole job: sample if the age warrants it, scrape, repair, retexture or skim, prime and paint.

For buildings inside the rules with a positive sample, the removal itself is not ours. We will do the finishing after clearance, we will work to the abatement contractor's schedule, and we will not pretend the line is anywhere other than where the statute puts it.

Where we do this work

Apartment and Rental Ceiling Removal across the Austin metro, and each of these towns has its own page with local build-year detail:

• Apartments and rentals in Round Rock
• Apartments and rentals in Cedar Park
• Apartments and rentals in Pflugerville
• Apartments and rentals in Georgetown
• Apartments and rentals in Leander
• Apartments and rentals in San Marcos
• Apartments and rentals in Kyle
• Apartments and rentals in Buda
• Apartments and rentals in Hutto
• Apartments and rentals in Manor
• Apartments and rentals in Lakeway
• Apartments and rentals in Wells Branch

Related work

• Asbestos Testing Before Removal
• Acoustic, Stucco and Cottage Cheese Ceiling Removal

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