Replacing Windows With Asbestos Siding

Use a utility knife to score the perimeters of the drywall you want to remove.

Replacing windows with asbestos siding.

Asbestos siding is friable because of the thinness of the material. Dry wall surrounding the inside of the window may get in the way of the process. Step 1 take out dry wall surrounding window on the inside of the house. Use a pry bar or a similar step 2 remove the window and screen.

Scoring is the using a knife to make shallow cuts without cutting it all the way to allow the dry wall to be removed easier. If it was me i would charge an extra 50 window with the assumption that we may damage a few and have to replace them with something that isn t asbestos but looks the same. The cost for asbestos siding encapsulating is 2 to 6 per sq. Ft it can cost from 3 000 to 9 000.

Wet the asbestos siding and removed debris down with water before and during removal. An expert will painstakingly paint your siding using a latex masonry primer and high grade latex paint. Average cost to replace asbestos siding the average cost to remove dispose and replace 1 500 square feet of asbestos siding is between 11 000 and 24 000. We still do repairs on asbestos siding occasionally but try to stay away from anything like doing tear off.

Then installing new material is 30 per hour plus the price of siding. I also have experienced that the asbestos is usually over the original wood lap siding and adding another layer is starting to really sink the windows in which also looks bad and is quite noticable. Great care should be taken when cutting asbestos and may be considered regulated work depending on which state you are in. Asbestos siding encapsulation costs.

Posting some pictures of the original windows may help typically around here asbestos siding has a metal j that butts up to casing. A common remodeling practice is to install new vinyl or aluminum siding over cement asbestos shingle siding as well as over many other older siding materials when the old siding has become damaged leaky or cosmetically ugly. Keep all windows and doors to the house closed during removal. The house i removed the asbestos siding on cost me 1900 to have a company come in and remove it.

Work from the top down removing the snails to keep from breaking the asbestos siding. There is no exact way to do this as long as you end. Removal alone costs 1 000 to 10 000 depending on the scope of the project. Instruction on how to install exterior 2x4 trim around a new or old window.

Guide to siding over asbestos cement siding. Do not throw or drop removed asbestos siding. And they would need to get windows with a nailing hem or flange to go under the siding and be flashed properly.