Asbestos by neighborhood across the Denver metro
A 1910 Capitol Hill walk-up and a 1965 Lakewood ranch hide different materials. These pages cover the typical housing eras in each part of the metro, the suspect materials that come up there and which building department handles permits. Confirm the details for your own address.
- Harvey Park and southwest Denver: asbestos in mid-century ranch homes
Southwest Denver filled in fast after World War II with single-story ranches. Owners love to update them, and an update is exactly when mid-century materials get disturbed.
- Aurora: asbestos questions from older north Aurora to newer subdivisions
Aurora sprawls across three counties, and housing age swings widely from one part to the next. Start with two facts: which part of Aurora you are in, and the year your building went up.
- Lakewood: asbestos in post-war ranches, bi-levels and split-levels
Builders put up much of Lakewood in the decades after World War II, and the split-level and bi-level layout packs several suspect materials into the same few rooms. Where to look, and who to call.
- Englewood: asbestos in small older homes and South Broadway storefronts
Englewood is one of Denver's older inner-ring suburbs: modest early homes, post-war cottages and a long commercial strip on South Broadway. Homeowners and small business tenants face different versions of the same questions.
- Littleton: asbestos questions by building era and jurisdiction
Littleton has a historic downtown, a ring of mid-century and 1970s neighborhoods, and a large area with Littleton mailing addresses that sits outside the city. All three matter when you plan work that might disturb asbestos.
- Westminster: asbestos in older subdivisions, from hail repairs to basement remodels
Westminster straddles Adams and Jefferson counties and grew north from an older southern core. Those older blocks, plus a steady run of hail claims, shape the asbestos questions owners face here.