Full decontamination of methamphetamine-affected properties, cleared to Colorado's legal standard of 0.5 µg/100 cm² and certified in writing. Residential, multifamily, commercial and vehicles — statewide.
When methamphetamine is smoked or manufactured indoors, residue does not stay on surfaces. It condenses onto every interior surface in the structure, absorbs into porous materials — drywall, carpet pad, insulation, upholstery, wood — and circulates through the HVAC system, which then redistributes it into rooms that were never used.
That is why "it looks fine" means nothing, why repainting fails, and why household cleaning products make the problem worse by spreading residue around rather than removing it. Contamination is measured, not observed.
This distinction drives your entire cost, and most companies won't explain it because ambiguity is profitable.
If someone quotes you a manufacturing-grade remediation on a property with use-level readings, you are being overcharged. We will tell you which one you have, in writing, before you spend anything on cleanup.
Base decontamination starts at $1,900 for a small apartment with light contamination and runs to roughly $28,800 for a large home with heavy manufacturing-level contamination. A typical 1,200–1,800 sq ft Colorado single-family home with moderate use contamination lands around $8,550 before add-ons.
Those figures include mobilization — containment, negative air, PPE, equipment and manifested disposal — which is charged once per job rather than buried in a per-square-foot rate. It is why a 600 sq ft apartment never costs a sixth of a 3,600 sq ft house.
The Colorado market average for comparable work is $15,000–$20,000. Full rate card and an instant estimator are on our pricing page — those are scoping figures, and your firm price is issued after we review your lab report and walk the property.
We get called to re-do other people's work regularly. The failure modes are remarkably consistent:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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