Asbestos Removal in Port Moody, BC

Port Moody's Ioco community and the older homes along St. Johns Street include rare 1920s-1950s company-built houses with multiple generations of renovation and asbestos-era materials.

Port Moody is known as the City of the Arts, but it's also a city with an unusually interesting architectural history for its size. The Ioco community, established in the 1920s as a company townsite for Imperial Oil refinery workers, contains some of the oldest and most characterful housing in all of the Tri-Cities. These 1920s-1940s company-built homes along Ioco Road have had multiple generations of renovation and are among the most complex asbestos environments we work in regularly. The original construction, subsequent post-war updates and any 1960s-70s modernisation can each contribute layers of asbestos-containing materials.

The original Port Moody town core along St. Johns Street and the surrounding blocks developed from the late 1800s through the 1960s, producing a mix of early-century character homes and post-war bungalows. Many of these homes retain original plaster walls covered by drywall updates from the 1960s and 70s, meaning asbestos may be present in the update layer while the original plaster beneath was installed before asbestos was used that way. The mechanical systems in these older Port Moody homes, particularly any remaining steam or hot-water heating, frequently have asbestos pipe and boiler insulation that needs professional assessment.

Pleasantside and Mountain Meadows are the more typical 1970s-1980s Port Moody residential areas, built during the asbestos era with the standard materials of that period. These neighbourhoods represent the more predictable asbestos survey work in Port Moody, with consistent materials in consistent locations. Rocky Point Park-area homes along the Burrard Inlet waterfront are also part of the older Port Moody housing picture, with waterfront exposure adding the same moisture-driven deterioration concerns we see in White Rock and South Surrey.

Port Moody's compact geography means asbestos projects here range from Ioco heritage renovations to 1980s Pleasantside basement suites to the older commercial buildings along St. Johns. Whatever the property type, we survey the full building scope, document every material and give you a lab-confirmed result before any work begins. If there's asbestos to remove, we do it under proper containment and dispose of the waste at a certified facility with the paperwork to prove it.