CVE

We were so relieved to find CVE and project manager Brian!
We have a 70’s home and found asbestos while trying to redo our floors.
After a very expensive quote from a recommended company whose owner/estimator was an a**hole… we were scouring the internet trying to find a company that had good reviews and also quick availability. Brian with CVE was able to get out the next day to quote us. His quote was HALF the other guys, he only needed 2 days instead of 5, and he included demolishing our kitchen which wasn’t in the first guy’s quote. We got an asbestos air test done and it was clean. CVE was a ray of sunshine during this stressful time.

I would recommend avoiding CVE at all costs if you are looking for asbestos abatement.

I hired them to decontaminate our new home from a previous asbestos release, with the scope including HEPA vac and wiping all surfaces. The job was supposed to start Monday and finish Tuesday with CVE bringing in a 3rd party air clearance tester.

Problems started almost immediately when their “3rd party” tester refused to perform any dust sampling (he claimed regulations only allowed air sampling, which I’ve been told since is 100% false) and he canceled the visit after I asked about it. Really suspicious behavior.

Keep in mind that it’s fairly easy to pass an air clearance test with air scrubbers running, but a microvac TEM will show you if your surfaces have truly been cleaned properly, which is important to know that you won’t simply be stirring up asbestos dust long after the abatement. Technically any dust in the work area is cause for an inspection to fail the “visual” portion regardless.

I had to find a new CAC on my own to come in and do testing after CVE’s guy canceled, luckily after about an hour of calling around I found one available that evening who had no problem running both the air clearance and TEM microvac testing.

However, when we arrived at the property, there was still visible dust in many areas of the home that had clearly not been cleaned. CVE sent the crew back out the next day, and same story again. Many areas of the home still dirty, often in the exact same spots our tester specifically took photos of and emailed to them the night before.

So that was Wednesday. The same exact thing happened Thursday through Saturday. I’m writing this now on Sunday and my house is still not clean. The cherry on top is that after days of back and forth trying to get the house clean, and finally thinking they had finished the job after swapping crews, I discovered that NONE of the loose items within the home had been cleaned. As in CVE literally just moved items into a few piles, covered them with plastic sheeting, and cleaned the house, but never decontaminated the items themselves. They were all still covered in dust.

Sound like a complicated job? It wasn’t. This is only a 1,200 sq ft home that hasn’t been moved into yet. The only items in the home are a handful of tools and misc parts for remodeling. The rest of the home is completely empty, no furniture, no food, nothing.

And get this— I took off work Thurs morning to go meet the crew on-site and walk through the home together to make sure everyone was on the same page and hopefully resolve any miscommunication so we could get the job done and move on. I asked what time they thought they would finish up so I could coordinate with the clearance tester. The foreman told me point blank he could probably finish the job in a few hours but that CVE “would probably want him to stay and milk it for the whole day”. Can’t make this stuff up!

Of course they didn’t finish that day, and the security cameras showed nobody was even on the upper level of the home until about 15 min before they told my tester to arrive. Makes sense that we found plenty of dust up there once again.

We had contractors scheduled for renovation work Wed-Sat (CVE was made aware of this from the very beginning and promised to finish by Tues evening) which is now indefinitely delayed since they have other jobs scheduled this upcoming week. Meaning we will have to delay our move-in date and find temporary storage and lodging in the meantime.

They also damaged our flooring, HVAC ducts, dryer vent, light fixture, and sump pump. And to no small extent, many of these need to be fixed or replaced and I’m having to spend additional time getting quotes etc.

Honesty, integrity, and professionalism are important traits for any business, especially one you are trusting to take care of hazardous materials in your home. I unfortunately have to say that CVE has shown none of them. Hoping this review helps other homeowners avoid the trouble I’m dealing with.