Asbestos & Lead Abatement for Sioux Falls Businesses
EPA and OSHA-compliant abatement for commercial, industrial, and government facilities in Sioux Falls and across the Sioux Empire. Our crews will travel, and we can schedule around your operations.
One Call for Serious Hazards. Trust Horsley With Your Safety.
Much of the commercial and public building stock in Sioux Falls was built before 1980. That includes the stone and brick blocks downtown, along with the schools, churches, clinics, and office buildings that went up as the city spread south and west after World War II. Buildings from those decades often contain both asbestos and lead. Asbestos turns up in ceiling tiles, pipe insulation, and flooring adhesives. Lead is in the paint, plumbing, and building components of structures built before 1978.
Horsley Specialties has removed both from commercial, industrial, and government buildings since 1959, using EPA and OSHA-compliant methods that protect your tenants and employees. If you’re preparing a property for renovation, responding to an inspection finding, or working under a public contract with compliance deadlines, we handle asbestos and lead together. You deal with one contractor and one schedule, and you get a single set of compliance records at the end.
Why Sioux Falls Businesses & Property Managers Choose Horsley Specialties
EPA and OSHA Compliance, Fully Documented
Every project follows EPA and OSHA abatement requirements, and we document each step from containment through disposal. That record matters when a Sioux Falls property changes hands, goes through a lender’s environmental review, or gets inspected years after the work is done.
Minimal Downtime & Disruptions for Your Operations
Sioux Falls runs on healthcare, banking, retail, and food processing, and most of those buildings can’t sit empty for a week. Our containment methods, flexible scheduling, and phased removal let unaffected parts of your building stay open while we work.
Proven Commercial, Industrial & Government Experience
Our project history includes school districts, power plants, rail cars, and cargo ships. That experience applies directly to the hospital wings, school buildings, processing plants, and multi-tenant commercial properties that make up much of the Sioux Falls market.
Asbestos Abatement Services
Used in over 3,000 building materials, asbestos has been linked to lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. When an inspection or renovation reveals asbestos in your facility’s walls, ceilings, flooring, or mechanical systems, Horsley Specialties provides the experience, training, and equipment to remove it safely and in full compliance with EPA and OSHA standards. No commercial job is too large or too complex for our team.
In Sioux Falls, asbestos most often shows up in buildings built or remodeled before the early 1980s. Common finds include 9-inch floor tile and black mastic in postwar schools and church buildings, pipe and boiler insulation in older downtown buildings, and sprayed fireproofing or ceiling texture in mid-century office and medical buildings. Downtown’s quartzite exteriors have held up for over a century, but the plaster, flooring, and pipe wrap inside them usually date from later remodels. Federal rules require an asbestos inspection before most commercial renovation or demolition, and written notice to the regulating agency at least 10 working days before demolition starts.
Common materials that include asbestos
- Electrical components
- Ceiling and floor tiles
- Mastic & adhesives
- Boiler insulation
- Fireproofing
- Joint compounds
- Pipe insulation
- Drywall systems
- Plaster & texture
- Caulking & glazing
- Roofing materials
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Lead Removal & Abatement Experts
Lead is commonly found in paint, dust, and soil around buildings constructed before 1978, and in older pipes and plumbing fixtures where it can contaminate drinking water. Left unaddressed, it poses serious health risks to employees, tenants, and visitors, and creates real liability exposure for property owners. Horsley Specialties has safely removed and disposed of lead-contaminated building components since 1959, using chemical and mechanical removal methods that meet health and safety standards without cutting corners.
Sioux Falls has a large stock of pre-1978 buildings that are now used commercially. Older storefronts downtown and along Phillips Avenue, church buildings, and early 1900s houses in Pettigrew Heights, McKennan Park, and the Cathedral district have been converted into offices, rental units, and daycares. Daycares and preschools are treated as child-occupied facilities under EPA lead rules, and commercial lead work falls under OSHA’s lead standard for construction (29 CFR 1926.62). We isolate the work area, remove or stabilize the lead, and clean to clearance before staff or tenants return.
Where We Commonly Find Lead
- Paint Debris
- Water Pipes
- Ceramic Glazes
- Building Materials & Components
Quality Work That Exceeds Standards
We use chemical and mechanical methods of lead paint removal, and we do both renovations and restorations to properties to ensure health and safety standards are not just met but exceeded for your well-being and the well-being of your home, business, and the surrounding environment.
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Commercial, Industrial & Government Abatement
Commercial Facilities
Industrial Sites
Government Projects
Serving Sioux Falls & the Sioux Empire
Horsley Specialties operates from two offices: Rapid City, South Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota. Sioux Falls projects are staffed and managed from those offices, with crews on site in Sioux Falls for the full length of each job. Moorhead sits on I-29, a straight drive south to Sioux Falls, and Rapid City is a run east on I-90. We set the mobilization date with you during your consultation, so travel is already part of the project timeline.
- Sioux Falls
- Brandon
- Harrisburg
- Tea
- Hartford
- Dell Rapids
- Canton
- Lennox
- Brookings
- Mitchell
- Yankton
Asbestos Abatement FAQ
The only reliable way is testing by a licensed asbestos inspector. If your facility was built or renovated before the early 1980s, an inspection is strongly recommended before any demolition or renovation work begins.
Cost depends on the material type, the size and accessibility of the affected area, and whether the project requires full containment. We provide a detailed quote after an on-site assessment, not a generic estimate
Not necessarily. Many projects can be contained and phased to keep unaffected areas of your building operational. We’ll walk through scheduling and containment options during your consultation.
Lead Abatement FAQ
The best method is to contact a licensed lead inspector in your area. If you have a positive test, Horsley Specialties can help remove contaminated materials safely.
There is no standard for how much lead abatement will cost. Material being removed, accessibility to the work area, and the overall scope of work are just a few of the contributing factors in determining costs. In general, Component removal is the quickest and least expensive method of removing a lead painted or contaminated building component.
There are many different ways of removing lead. These include chemical stripping of the building component, removal and disposal of the component in its entirety, Needle scaling within an appropriate enclosure, and in very rare cases abrasive sanding or blasting.
