Dallas, Texas
Licensed testing, abatement and demolition support across the city — from Oak Cliff bungalows to Deep Ellum brick. Plano office, on site within 24 hours.
Call (469) 283-5227Why Dallas is different
Census Bureau estimates for 2024 put roughly 276,500 of the city's 600,000 housing units at 1979 or earlier — close to half. The same estimates put Plano near 19 percent and Frisco under 3.
That gap is why this page reads differently from our suburban ones. Out in the newer suburbs most calls are water and mold. In Dallas the first call is usually asbestos — the buildings are old enough to contain it and to be getting torn into. For the wider county picture, see our Dallas County page.
Popcorn and textured ceilings
The most common reason a Dallas homeowner calls. Scraping is what releases the fibers, so test the texture before a ladder comes out.
9x9 floor tile and the black mastic under it
Common under later flooring in East Dallas and Oak Cliff. The adhesive is usually the bigger problem, and it surfaces the moment carpet comes up.
Siding, roofing felt and window glazing
Cement-asbestos siding was common on post-war housing. Stable until a saw or a hailstorm reaches it, then it becomes an abatement scope.
Lead paint, almost always alongside it
Residential lead paint was banned in 1978, so a house old enough for asbestos is usually old enough for lead. Lead testing and lead paint removal travel with the asbestos scope.
Housing stock by era
Age is the only reliable predictor here, and Dallas neighborhoods carry theirs on the plat map.
Munger Place was planned in 1905, Swiss Avenue extended alongside it, Junius Heights built out from 1906 into the mid-1930s. Prairie four-squares and Craftsman bungalows, plaster and layered paint.
Oak Cliff was annexed by Dallas in 1903 and Winnetka Heights platted in 1908 — frame bungalows and Prairie-influenced four squares. Renovation here is constant and rarely a teardown.
Established in 1923, better than half Tudor Revival, built out through the 1940s. Small closed rooms and original mechanical runs turn a kitchen remodel into a disturbance question.
Kessler Park's first section sold in 1923, more platted through 1924. Lakewood Heights ran from 1914 to 1940. Both hold bungalows on a second or third renovation.
Building started in the 1920s and ran mainly through the 1930s, incorporating in 1939 before joining Dallas in 1945. Larger houses, more insulated pipe.
One and two-story brick commercial buildings went up beginning in the early 1900s and many still stand. Adaptive reuse is the norm, so the survey comes ahead of a build-out.
The permit
The City of Dallas demolition checklist asks you to confirm that an asbestos survey has been conducted in accordance with the Texas Asbestos Health Protection Rules and the federal NESHAP standard. Unlike the hold harmless agreement or the insurance certificate, it is not something you can produce the afternoon you notice it missing.
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A licensed inspector walks the structure and samples every distinct suspect material. Sequence it first — everything below waits on the report.
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Texas DSHS requires notification before demolition of a building or facility even when no asbestos is present. A clean survey shortens that paperwork rather than removing it.
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Regulated material comes out under containment before the machine arrives. Our abatement and demolition crews run it as one scope, so the handoff does not cost you a week.
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You receive accredited-laboratory results and a written report formatted for submittal. Start at our Dallas demolition survey page if a date is already on the calendar.
Services in Dallas
We are licensed, insured and staffed by certified technicians across Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties. Testing runs through accredited laboratories, and you will have the scope and cost in writing before work begins. Not sure which you need? The Home Environmental Risk Checker is a free tool that asks about your property's age and condition and points you at the right starting place.
Asbestos
Testing for a single suspect material, a full pre-demolition survey, and licensed abatement when something comes back positive.
Lead
Lead testing on paint, dust and soil at pre-1978 properties, and lead paint removal where a renovation or a young child makes it necessary.
Mold
Mold testing and mold removal. Less often the first call here than in the suburbs, but old plumbing and pier-and-beam foundations produce their own version.
Demolition
Structural and selective demolition once the survey and any abatement are behind you, with environmental work and teardown under one scope.
Dallas questions
The city's demolition checklist asks you to confirm that an asbestos survey has been conducted in accordance with the Texas Asbestos Health Protection Rules and the federal NESHAP standard, so it has to exist before you submit. It is what most often holds up a demo date.
In a 1930s Dallas house — an M Streets Tudor, a Kessler Park revival, a Lakewood cottage — expect pipe and duct insulation, floor tile and mastic under later flooring, and window glazing. Lead paint is near certain at that age, so asbestos testing and lead testing are worth running together.
The federal demolition rules cover buildings and facilities broadly, and the Dallas checklist does not carve houses out of the survey line the way it does for the insurance certificate on one- and two-family dwellings. If a structure is coming down inside city limits, plan on it.
We are on site within 24 hours and reachable 24/7/365, and most of Dallas is a short drive from the Plano office. If a closing or a permit review is driving your timeline, say so — it changes how we sequence the sampling.
It varies widely, and anyone quoting a number before seeing the property is guessing. A survey is priced by the number of distinct materials sampled rather than square footage, and abatement depends on material, quantity, access and containment. You will have an itemized written quote first.
Serving the city of Dallas
Give us the address, the build year and the date you want machines on site. We will work the survey, the report and the notification backward from it.
