Question: My 1970s cottage-cheese acoustic ceiling has been lab-tested and found to contain asbestos. Is it legal for me as a homeowner to remove the acoustic material if I use the proper safety ...

Q: Our home was built in 1970 and has a textured ceiling and paneled walls in the living room. We started to remove the old paneling, but this caused some of the ceiling texture to be scraped off.

Q: Our home was built in 1970 and has a textured ceiling and paneled walls in the living room. We started to remove the paneling, which caused some of the ceiling texture to be scraped off. It then ...

Q: I would like to get rid our popcorn ceiling, which contains 2 to 3 percent asbestos. We plan to cover the cathedral living room ceiling with paneling. The bedrooms are in no danger of being ...

Q: My home has textured ceilings in the living room and bedrooms, and the material has tested positive for asbestos. A home inspector I know says he removed his asbestos ceilings by himself and that ...

QDEAR BARRY: According to my home inspector, the popcorn ceilings in the home that I'm buying are about 3 percent asbestos. He said this is not a problem, but I'm very concerned. I now realize that ...

A $170,000 project to remove asbestos ceilings and insulation from three schools in the Palisades School District will begin today, a district official announced last night. Superintendent Thomas Free ...

The School Board decided Tuesday to pay more than $300,000 to clean up asbestos contamination and remove all known asbestos-containing building material from Grafton-Bethel Elementary School. The ...