Popcorn Ceiling Removal in Wells Branch, TX
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Popcorn ceiling removal in Wells Branch costs $2.30 to $4.05 per square foot, and this neighbourhood is unusual because almost all of it was built in one go. Wells Branch went up as a planned district off Wells Branch Parkway during the eighties, which puts nearly the entire housing stock in the leftover-inventory band: after manufacturers stopped adding asbestos, but while sprayers were still working through what was on the shelf. That is why we sample here as a matter of course and treat a clean result as good news rather than a formality.
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One neighbourhood, one ceiling
The useful thing about a district built in a single decade is that the ceilings are consistent. Sprayed acoustic texture, eight foot ceilings, a fan in the middle of every bedroom, and a popcorn pattern that is finer than the sixties stuff and coarser than what came later.
Once we have sampled a few houses on a street we have a very good idea what the rest of it is. That does not replace testing your specific ceiling, and we will not let it, but it does mean our Wells Branch quotes are accurate the first time.
Thirty year old drywall
Eighties drywall has had time to move. Expect nail pops along the joists, expect the tape at the wall-ceiling junction to have opened up in at least one room, and expect at least one patch where a previous owner ran a cable or moved a light.
None of that is alarming and all of it costs money to fix properly. The right sequence is scrape, reset and re-cover the pops, re-tape the failed joints, then skim the whole plane. Skipping straight from scrape to paint is how a ceiling ends up looking worse flat than it did textured.
Popcorn on the walls too
A fair number of Wells Branch houses have textured walls as well as textured ceilings, sometimes the same sprayed popcorn and sometimes a heavier hand texture. People often want the ceilings flat and forget the walls until the ceilings are done and the contrast is obvious.
Decide that up front. Doing walls at the same time is far cheaper than coming back, because the masking, the staging and the sanding setup are already there.
Renting out a Wells Branch house
Plenty of Wells Branch houses are rentals now. A single rental house is a private residence under the Texas asbestos rules and stays outside them, so a landlord here has the same options a homeowner does.
That said, if a sample comes back positive, a landlord has a tenant to think about and a rather different risk calculation to a homeowner scraping their own guest room. Take the result seriously either way.
| Issue | How often we find it | Added to the quote |
|---|---|---|
| Nail or screw pops | Nearly every house | $150 to $400 per house |
| Failed tape at wall junction | About half | $200 to $600 per house |
| Old cable or fixture patch | About half | $80 to $250 each |
| Water staining from a past leak | Roughly one in five | $250 to $900 per room |
Should I test an eighties Wells Branch ceiling for asbestos?
Yes, an eighties Wells Branch ceiling is worth testing, because sprayers kept using up existing asbestos-bearing inventory into the mid eighties even after manufacturers had stopped adding it. The test is inexpensive relative to the job and the result is permanent information about your house.
Can you do the walls at the same time?
Yes, and it is much cheaper done together than as a second visit.
Around Wells Branch
We work the streets and corridors people here actually use: I-35, Wells Branch Parkway, the Wells Branch MUD, Katherine Fleischer Park, Walnut Creek, Merrilltown, Round Rock ISD.
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Should I test an eighties Wells Branch ceiling for asbestos?
Yes, an eighties Wells Branch ceiling is worth testing, because sprayers kept using up existing asbestos-bearing inventory into the mid eighties even after manufacturers had stopped adding it. The test is inexpensive relative to the job and the result is permanent information about your house.
Can you do the walls at the same time?
Yes, and it is much cheaper done together than as a second visit.