Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Buda, TX
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Popcorn ceiling removal in Buda costs $2.30 to $4.05 per square foot and does not need an asbestos test on the great majority of Buda houses. The median construction year for Buda is 2012, with 48.5% of the housing stock built between 2010 and 2019 and another 28.7% between 2000 and 2009. Asbestos left textured ceiling products decades before any of that was sprayed. If somebody is quoting you mandatory lab testing on a Garlic Creek house, you are being sold something you do not need.
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So why does a 2012 house have popcorn at all?
Fair question, and the answer is money rather than fashion. Sprayed acoustic texture covers a level 3 drywall finish in a single pass, which means the builder can skip the extra skim and sanding a flat ceiling needs. It was still standard on plenty of Central Texas production housing well into the 2010s.
That texture is gypsum, water and expanded polystyrene beads. It is inert, it is not a health issue, and the only reason to take it off is that you do not like looking at it. Which is a perfectly good reason.
Buda's real variable is height, not age
Buda houses run big and the ceilings run high. Ten foot downstairs is common in the newer subdivisions, and two storey entries and vaulted great rooms are everywhere. Height changes the job more than anything else here, because everything above about nine feet means staging rather than working off a step ladder.
That is also why the per square foot number can mislead in this town. A 2,000 square foot Buda ceiling with a vaulted great room takes noticeably longer than a flat 2,000 square feet in an older single storey.
Old Buda around Main Street
There is a small pocket of genuinely old Buda downtown, near Main Street and running out towards Old Black Colony Road. Handful of streets. If your house is one of those, everything above about asbestos being a non-issue stops applying and we sample first.
It is a small enough number of houses that we know most of them by sight now.
Dust control in a full house
Buda families tend to be in the house while the work happens, often with young kids, and the question we get more than any other here is about dust. Wet scraping barely makes any. The dust comes from sanding the skim coat afterwards, and that is handled with shrouded sanders running on HEPA extraction plus plastic and a zip door on the room.
Marisa will not quote open sanding in an occupied house. It is faster and cheaper and you will be finding grey film on top of the kitchen cabinets in October.
| Built | Share of Buda housing | Asbestos risk in the texture |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 to 2019 | 48.5% | No asbestos |
| 2000 to 2009 | 28.7% | No asbestos |
| 2020 onward | 9.2% | No asbestos, usually flat already |
| Before 2000 | The remainder | Only pre-1986 stock is worth sampling |
Is asbestos testing necessary in Buda?
Asbestos testing is not necessary on a Buda house built after the mid eighties, and with a median construction year of 2012 that covers nearly the whole town. Sampling makes sense on the small pocket of older housing near Main Street and nowhere else here.
How high are your ladders?
We stage vaulted and two storey entry ceilings off scaffold towers rather than ladders, which is slower to set up and far safer for a finish you will be looking at in raking light.
Around Buda
We work the streets and corridors people here actually use: I-35, Main Street and downtown Buda, Onion Creek, Garlic Creek, Old Black Colony Road, Hays CISD, Cabela's.
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Is asbestos testing necessary in Buda?
Asbestos testing is not necessary on a Buda house built after the mid eighties, and with a median construction year of 2012 that covers nearly the whole town. Sampling makes sense on the small pocket of older housing near Main Street and nowhere else here.
How high are your ladders?
We stage vaulted and two storey entry ceilings off scaffold towers rather than ladders, which is slower to set up and far safer for a finish you will be looking at in raking light.