Meth & fentanyl remediation, answered

Most residential meth decontamination we take runs $2,450 to $16,200 depending on square footage, contamination level and how much porous material has to come out. A typical 1,500 sq ft home with moderate use contamination lands around $8,550 for base decon; the same house as a former manufacturing site is closer to $16,200, and a large heavy property runs to roughly $28,800.

The Colorado market average for the same work is roughly $15,000–$20,000, and severe cases elsewhere have been quoted past $100,000. We are meaningfully under that — but we are not going to pretend a former lab cleans up for pocket change.

We publish real numbers on our pricing page and run an instant estimator, because the single most common complaint we hear about this industry is that nobody will tell you a price until they are standing in your living room.

We beat competitor bids daily. Send us any quote you have already received and we will read it line by line, tell you honestly whether the scope is fair, and show you where we come out. A lot of the bids we review are padded — and a few are genuinely underscoped, skipping HVAC or clearance testing so the headline number looks lower than the job actually is. We will point that out either way.

What we will not do is quote you a number over the phone and then change it later. See the next question.

Every figure on this site — the rate card, the estimator, anything we discuss on the phone — is a starting point for scoping, not a quote.

Your price is confirmed after two things happen: we review your lab report, so we know the actual contamination level and where it is, and we walk the property in person, so we know what is really coming out and what condition the structure and HVAC are in. Only then do we issue a written, itemized price.

Once that written price is issued, it holds. If something genuinely unforeseen turns up mid-job — asbestos in flooring we are pulling, structural rot, undisclosed hoarding — we stop, document it, and re-quote that portion before proceeding. You will never get a surprise line item after the fact.

Colorado regulation 6 CCR 1014-3 sets the residential methamphetamine cleanup standard at 0.5 µg per 100 cm² of surface area. Limited-exposure areas such as attics and crawlspaces are allowed up to 4 µg/100 cm², and painted-over surfaces up to 1.5 µg/100 cm². Properties where the P2P manufacturing method was used also carry lead, mercury and iodine thresholds.

A property is not legally "clean" because it looks clean. It is clean when a certified consultant's post-decon samples come back under standard and the certification paperwork is issued.

A typical single-family decontamination takes 2 to 5 working days on site, plus 2–4 business days for clearance lab results. Light contamination in a small apartment can be done in a single day. Full former-lab remediation with structural removal can run 1–3 weeks.

If you have a closing date, tell us the date. Our 48-hour rush scheduling exists specifically to save transactions.

Usually not. Most Colorado homeowners policies exclude contamination from illegal drug activity, and many specifically name methamphetamine. Landlord and dwelling-fire policies sometimes include limited vandalism or malicious-mischief coverage that can apply to tenant-caused damage — it is worth filing and finding out.

We provide itemized, insurer-formatted documentation with every job at no extra charge, so if there is a claim to be made you have what you need to make it.

Yes. Under Colorado law, once an owner knows a property was used to manufacture methamphetamine or is contaminated above standard, that is a material fact that must be disclosed to buyers. Failing to disclose is a well-travelled route to litigation.

The practical upside: once a property has been remediated and certified to 6 CCR 1014-3 standard, you disclose the contamination and the certification — which is a far better conversation than an unresolved rumour.

Not to a standard anyone will accept. Methamphetamine residue is not a surface film — it absorbs into drywall, carpet pad, insulation and duct lining, and it migrates through the HVAC system. Household cleaners redistribute it. Painting over it traps it temporarily and it re-emerges.

More importantly, self-cleaning produces no certification. No lender, no buyer, no county health department and no tenant will accept "I scrubbed it." If the property is going to be sold, rented or occupied by your family, it needs documented clearance.

Fentanyl is far more potent by weight, so the hazard threshold is lower, but it is generally less absorptive into building materials than methamphetamine. In practice, fentanyl decon is often less destructive — more surface treatment and contents handling, less demolition.

Colorado has not adopted a numeric residential clearance standard for fentanyl the way it has for meth, so we work to established occupational and industry guidance and document everything. We will tell you plainly what is regulated and what is best practice.

You often cannot tell by looking. Strong chemical or ammonia odors, yellow-brown staining on walls and ceilings, stained or discolored fixtures, blacked-out windows, unusual venting, and burn marks are all indicators — but plenty of contaminated properties show none of them.

The only reliable answer is a surface wipe sample analyzed by an accredited lab. Our pre-purchase composite screen starts at $225 — priced on how many samples your property needs — and turns around in a few business days.

Constantly. A large share of our work comes from agents and investors who found a problem during inspection and have days, not weeks. We prioritize transaction work, offer 48-hour rush mobilization, and deliver reports formatted for lenders, title companies and buyer's agents.

If your project disturbs more than 32 square feet of surface material or 50 linear feet of pipe insulation in a single-family home, yes — Colorado Regulation No. 8, Part B requires inspection by a state-certified asbestos building inspector first. For public and commercial buildings the thresholds are 160 square feet and 260 linear feet.

Thirty-two square feet is about one small bathroom floor, or a single bedroom's popcorn ceiling. Most homeowners assume they are well under the limit and are not.

Asbestos was used in Colorado construction into the early 1980s, so treat anything built before roughly 1980 as suspect. That covers a very large share of Denver-metro housing stock — bungalows, Denver squares, post-war ranches and most pre-1980 apartment buildings.

Age narrows the odds but does not settle it. Only laboratory analysis of a bulk sample tells you whether a specific material contains asbestos.

Generally, intact asbestos-containing material that is not being disturbed is not the emergency. The hazard comes from releasing fibres — sanding, scraping, grinding, drilling or demolishing it.

That is why the right first move when you suspect asbestos is to stop work and test, not to pull it out over a weekend. Encapsulating or simply leaving intact material alone is often the correct and cheapest answer, and we will tell you when that is the case rather than selling you a removal.

Because the two collide constantly. Meth decontamination means pulling carpet, subfloor, drywall and duct insulation — in a pre-1980 property those are exactly the materials most likely to contain asbestos.

Disturbing them without testing turns a straightforward decon into a regulatory problem and a health hazard for everyone on site. Running both trades together means we test before we demo, sequence abatement ahead of decontamination, and you deal with one company instead of two contractors blaming each other for the delay.

Colorado requires a state-certified General Abatement Contractor for abatement above the trigger levels. Our abatement is performed by a certified partner contractor we work alongside, coordinated and project-managed by us.

We are not going to imply we hold a certification we do not hold. What you get is one point of contact, one schedule, and a partner who discounts the same way we do — which is precisely why we work with him instead of a franchise.

Asbestos is quoted per job rather than off a published rate card, because scope is driven by material type, friability, access and permit requirements. A single popcorn ceiling and a full basement pipe-wrap removal are not comparable jobs.

Estimates are free, our partner discounts the same way we do, and bundling asbestos with meth remediation is meaningfully cheaper than running them as two separate jobs — one mobilization, one containment setup, one crew schedule.