Cedar Park Lead Paint Removal takes on lead paint removal and lead abatement in Lakeway, Texas, together with lead paint testing and inspection, encapsulation, lead-safe remodels and exterior trim work on houses that predate 1978. The build year and the surfaces in play set the course, whether it ends in a test report, a sealed coating, stripping or new components.
Lakeway began in 1962–63 as a resort community on Lake Travis and incorporated in 1974. About 13.6% of its 8,561 homes were built before 1980, and 870 of those date from the 1970s (ACS 2020–2024), a larger share of older housing than in Cedar Park or Leander.
Home building followed the resort hotel, which opened in July 1963, with the Lakeway Land Company developing the real estate, and the 1970s supplied three-quarters of the city’s pre-1980 housing. Those years fall on both sides of the 1978 cutoff, so a Lakeway house from 1975 and one from 1979 can face different rules for the same remodel. Confirming the year comes first; our lead paint inspection and risk assessment page covers what follows.
Painted fascia, soffits and wood trim on early lake homes face the same long hot season as the rest of the Austin area, and paint peeling from them sheds onto landscaped yards and slopes. Exterior work on a pre-1978 house lays plastic ground cover around the work area and collects chips before they reach beds or drainage paths. Whether a component is stripped, replaced or sealed depends on its condition; see exterior lead paint removal.
Renovating a 1960s or 1970s Lakeway home can begin with a DSHS-certified inspector or risk assessor testing the trim, walls and windows the plans will disturb. Components found free of lead-based paint drop out of EPA’s renovation rule, which can reduce the containment a remodel needs; without results, the rule treats the paint as lead-based. Our lead-safe remodeling page covers the work itself.
Intact paint on walls or trim can be sealed with an encapsulant coating or covered with new drywall or cladding, which avoids stripping but leaves lead in place for future owners to know about. Paint that is peeling, or on surfaces that rub, such as window sashes and door edges, is better removed or replaced. See lead paint encapsulation and enclosure for the barrier options.
Lakeway grew out of a 2,700-acre ranch owned by Jack Josey. In early 1962 three Houston businessmen took an option on the land to plan a hotel and resort community; construction started that October, and the hotel opened on July 12, 1963. Property owners voted in June 1974 to incorporate a 1,200-acre village, with the consent of the City of Austin.
The census counted 790 residents in 1980 and 19,189 in 2020, and about 59% of today’s homes date from 2000 or later. Owner-occupants make up about 86% of households. The ACS groups 1978 and 1979 with the rest of the 1970s, so not all 870 homes in that bracket predate the cutoff.
Owners selling or leasing a house built before 1978 have federal disclosure duties: hand over the EPA pamphlet, disclose known lead-based paint and any reports, include the Lead Warning Statement, and keep the records for three years. Leases of 100 days or less are exempt, which can cover short seasonal rentals. Housing a certified inspector has declared lead-free is exempt too, so an inspection before listing can settle the question for later sales as well.
Lakeway sits in Travis County, about 16 miles west of Austin, with Hurst Creek running through it. We did not find City of Lakeway guidance specific to lead work, so confirm with the city whether replacing windows, siding or trim on your house needs a permit, and check with any owners’ association that reviews exterior changes. Those approvals sit alongside the EPA and DSHS requirements, not in place of them.
Homes built before 1978 may contain lead-based paint, and Texas DSHS says such housing must be assumed to contain it unless tested. Age alone does not tell you which surfaces: later repainting, replacement trim and remodels all change the picture. A lead inspection identifies the components that test positive.
Not that we could confirm. Lakeway is within the service area of Travis County’s CDBG Home Rehabilitation Program for owner-occupants, but the program page does not mention lead paint, so eligibility for lead work is unknown. The county’s lead-poisoning prevention page is an education resource rather than a funding program. The Travis County CDBG office is at 512-854-3460.
For remodeling, repair and painting in pre-1978 homes, the EPA, which administers its RRP rule directly in Texas. For lead inspections, risk assessments and abatement, the Texas Department of State Health Services. The purpose of the project decides which applies.
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