Asbestos removal...

[Al_1977]

Not sure if this is the right area to post, mods pls relocate if necessary.

I was wondering if anyone could offer any words of wisdom on Asbestos removal.

I've been googling around for specialists.... and it seems an area you could right-royally have your pants pulled down if approched completely blind.

I've got a dutch barn with approx. 40sqm on the roof to dispose of imminently.... but I have a longer term project on a 312sqM barn which is 70% board (4ft of brick base).

Someone has mentioned it might just be cement board?? Either way I need to get rid safely whilst protecting my wallet... so any advise would be appriceated.

Cheers.

 

[V8Druid]

get some samples analysed?

 

[JD450A]

Non Licensed works. You can do it yourself, look on HSE website for guidance

 

[V8Druid]

Non Licensed works. You can do it yourself, look on HSE website for guidance

and buy a good mask/respirator

 

[Lynchy]

Do basic asbestos awareness online course for bit education, survey as mentioned above ,might,think,maybe doesn't work

 

[JD450A]

and buy a good mask/respirator

Yes, although personal experience says you'd be closer to dieing of asbestoses from being in London in the 90's than snorting A/C

 

[Lancs Lad]

And then if you live round here the council offer a free collection service...you just drop it off at the roadside on a quiet country lane.

 

[Bob]

about 10 years ago I took out inner walls of brick skined prefab bungalow and replaced with studwork celotex and plaster board skimmed and building regs .I had throw away boiler suits and masks council use to come and see me every room they never bothered put a mask on .I could not take asbestos to local land fill which was registered to take asbestos as I needed a waste lic so owner put it in his trailer and that was ok

 

[6feetdown]

Not sure if this is the right area to post, mods pls relocate if necessary.

I was wondering if anyone could offer any words of wisdom on Asbestos removal.

I've been googling around for specialists.... and it seems an area you could right-royally have your pants pulled down if approched completely blind.

I've got a dutch barn with approx. 40sqm on the roof to dispose of imminently.... but I have a longer term project on a 312sqM barn which is 70% board (4ft of brick base).

Someone has mentioned it might just be cement board?? Either way I need to get rid safely whilst protecting my wallet... so any advise would be appriceated.

Cheers.

Insurance and paperwork will be your biggest problem.
Not sure if a job that size is notifiable

 

[Al_1977]

Thanks for your replies. I could probably do the smaller roof with a bit of education and some PPE.

The bigger barn is the real issue. Maybe I'll do the smaller and pallet the stuff up, get a firm in to do the bigger job and send the pallet off with that lot to be disposed of.

 

[Danny]

£375.96 inc vat per tonne if i take it to my local skip place

 

[V8Druid]

hardcore under a slab it is then

£375.96 inc vat per tonne if i take it to my local skip place

 

[Smiffy]

hardcore under a slab it is then

I wouldn't say that's dreadfully expensive to be fair it's not the heaviest stuff going so that's a fair volume per tonne.
Or atleast when you consider most those old panels are half disintegrated anyway

 

[Quattromike]

hardcore under a slab it is then

A local cowboy tried this on a new ag shed he was building, dug out big hole in middle of the shed, placed all sheets in covered with hardcore and then concrete slab on top. Authorities came along at the end drew a big square on the concrete and made them dig it up and found the evidence. It seemed they knew where to look. That guy escaped to NZ and is now at large and the poor farmers land has been classified as contaminated until he can prove otherwise. Short of digging the whole place up and testing it's not an easy thing to do apparently

 

[V8Druid]

A local cowboy tried this on a new ag shed he was building, dug out big hole in middle of the shed, placed all sheets in covered with hardcore and then concrete slab on top. Authorities came along at the end drew a big square on the concrete and made them dig it up and found the evidence. It seemed they knew where to look. That guy escaped to NZ and is now at large and the poor farmers land has been classified as contaminated until he can prove otherwise. Short of digging the whole place up and testing it's not an easy thing to do apparently

if your burying summat .......... tell no one ...... builder probably had a gob on him

 

[Brendan]

if your burying summat .......... tell no one ...... builder probably had a gob on him

Or upset someone

 

[Mogman]

Cost me £21,000 to have the Aspestos lagging removed from the exhaust on the ‘big boat’ I’m cutting up. took them 2 weeks, big plastic tent, decontamination trailer the works took 1/2 a tonne away with them

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Cost me £21,000 to have the Aspestos lagging removed from the exhaust on the ‘big boat’ I’m cutting up took them 2 weeks, big plastic tent, decontamination trailer the works took 1/2 a tonne away with them

Did the other 20 tonnes end up in the Weaver?!….

 

[Mogman]

Did the other 20 tonnes end up in the Weaver?!….

shhhhh

 

[Left hooker]

Cost me £21,000 to have the Aspestos lagging removed from the exhaust on the ‘big boat’ I’m cutting up. took them 2 weeks, big plastic tent, decontamination trailer the works took 1/2 a tonne away with them

You probably had to pay 1t minimum charge as well