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Landlords, property managers and associations in Bellevue answer to rules that owner-occupants do not. PSCAA’s single-family exceptions stop at a house occupied by the family that owns it. Rentals and multiple-family units sit outside. Abatement for them is what Bellevue Asbestos Removal does.
Nearly as many Bellevue households rent as own, with 48% renting.
Turnovers can be one repair at a time. A certified inspector surveys each renovation, and the findings are shared with maintenance staff, other trades and anyone else who could disturb the material. A bathroom floor in one unit and a kitchen wall in the next are surveyed separately. Ordering the survey before the unit empties puts the results in hand when the repair is scheduled.
A rented house looks like a family home but does not count as one under PSCAA’s definition. PSCAA also says renovating a condominium calls for a certified inspector and a certified abatement contractor. Neither case gets the owner-occupant rules.
A condominium association deals with two layers, individual units and common areas such as hallways, roofs and boiler rooms. PSCAA says renovating a condominium calls for a certified inspector’s survey and a certified abatement contractor, so the survey covers whatever each project will disturb in either layer.
Rental work adds a requirement at nearly every step.
A good-faith inspection is the owner’s responsibility under RCW 49.26.013, or the agent’s if one acts for the owner, and it comes before any work that might disturb asbestos. Bidders see the written report first.
State law decides who may remove asbestos from rentals and condominiums, and the answer is certified workers under a certified supervisor on the site. A separate L&I notice, filed before the work, covers projects over 48 square feet or 10 linear feet, so ask each bidder who the supervisor is and who files it.
Every friable load goes to the disposal site with a waste shipment record, and keeping the copies is the owner’s job. An owner with several buildings may want one file per building, so each building’s paperwork stays together.
For a rental building coming down, see pre-demolition asbestos abatement. For every other rental job, the survey is the starting point, and asbestos testing and surveys explains it. If a single unit is the whole project, the same steps apply on a smaller scale. The Bellevue Asbestos Removal home page lists the other services.
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