Concrete garage with corrugated asbestos roof - Woking
Discussion
spurs coupe said:
A strange one maybe, but I need to knock down my garage, to make room for an extension. This is bad enough, but as I suspect the roof is asbestos this has potential to be a pain.
Anyone with any experience on this?
Thanks
It shouldn’t be too bad. My garage had an asbestos roof and I had it removed/replaced when I had the garage widened.Anyone with any experience on this?
Thanks
The guys that did it just carefully unscrewed the asbestos sheets after wetting them, kept them whole and wrapped them up in plastic sheeting.
I booked a Biffa specialist waste collection and I don’t remember it costing too much. I think some councils would take it at the tip, but mine didn’t.
That was a few years ago now, so rules might have changed.
I had this recently, had some ridiculous quotes from £800 to £3000 to remove the asbestos. There seems to be a lot of people capitalising on scaremongery around removal and disposal. in the end, my builders took it off, I wrapped it in bags and took to my local tip which take for free
Yep, there's over zealous Elf & Safety regulations, companies will try and charge you the earth for removing it.
If the panels are in good solid form then there should be little or no problem, but precautions are still needed.
If you are working with the stuff a Good face mask is a must.
Wetting it down is a good tip. Don't go smashing it up, its the flakey dust that is the Killer.
Get a roll of polyurethane sheeting and lay it out then remove each panel and wrap it up and seal it.
I would also recommend a disposable paper suite, bin everything after you finish.
Don't pile them all on top of each other as you will not be able to lift them all.
Don't saw it.
If you do need to break it down to make it more manageable to handle then wrap the sheet up and seal the bag first then hit it with a few blows of the hammer into a better size. DO NOT REOPEN THE SEALED BAG.
If the panels are in good solid form then there should be little or no problem, but precautions are still needed.
If you are working with the stuff a Good face mask is a must.
Wetting it down is a good tip. Don't go smashing it up, its the flakey dust that is the Killer.
Get a roll of polyurethane sheeting and lay it out then remove each panel and wrap it up and seal it.
I would also recommend a disposable paper suite, bin everything after you finish.
Don't pile them all on top of each other as you will not be able to lift them all.
Don't saw it.
If you do need to break it down to make it more manageable to handle then wrap the sheet up and seal the bag first then hit it with a few blows of the hammer into a better size. DO NOT REOPEN THE SEALED BAG.
I have abestolux in my roof, which meant when we bought the house the survey had a huge section in red with exclamation marks saying WARNING and ASBESTOS amongst other things. When you actually look at the details though it soon becomes apparent that unless disturbed it is absolutely fine.
In the end we ended up having it sprayed and sealed at the owners cost prior to completion. It is all painted green now. That said, I dread when we come to sell, as I am convinced potential owners will request a huge price reduction on the house asking for the cost of a new roof to be deducted. It went through our minds when buying but as we wanted the house so much we didn't go down this route, especially as it was a sellers market in 2015 and we were continually losing out on houses despite offering over asking price.
I have had quotes to remove the asbestos since being in and generally it was £3k. But then the roof would need re timbering and additional tiling, so it would work out anywhere up to £10k to have the roof cleared and re done. This has meant ruling out a loft conversion, but with quotes of between 60k and 80k for one, it's ruled itself out anyway.
TAG I think are who came round to spray our existing slabs, or maybe they quoted me the 3k - can't remember which but I def contacted them.
In the end we ended up having it sprayed and sealed at the owners cost prior to completion. It is all painted green now. That said, I dread when we come to sell, as I am convinced potential owners will request a huge price reduction on the house asking for the cost of a new roof to be deducted. It went through our minds when buying but as we wanted the house so much we didn't go down this route, especially as it was a sellers market in 2015 and we were continually losing out on houses despite offering over asking price.
I have had quotes to remove the asbestos since being in and generally it was £3k. But then the roof would need re timbering and additional tiling, so it would work out anywhere up to £10k to have the roof cleared and re done. This has meant ruling out a loft conversion, but with quotes of between 60k and 80k for one, it's ruled itself out anyway.
TAG I think are who came round to spray our existing slabs, or maybe they quoted me the 3k - can't remember which but I def contacted them.
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