Asbestos Sheeting on Garage Roof

sindersoot

Are there any grants available to assist with financing the removal of asbestos?

Our garage roof is asbestos corragated sheeting which we will require to have removed by an authorised asbestos removal company. Does anyone know of a reputable company in the West of Scotland?

Are there any particular things we should be looking for when employing an asbestos removal company?

Also, can anyone recommend a good replacement for the corragated asbestos sheeting, don't particularly want anything like plastic type sheeting due to wear and tear and bolts breaking, etc.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Niv

Why does it need removal? Is it badly damaged or are you making modifications to the building? If you want to remove it simply due to the material it is I would simply suggest painting it. I used to work as an asbestos analyst and can tell you that asbestos strippers are not the tidiest of guys (but you gotta love um )

Suzy_M

??Why?? do you have to remove roof?

Garetha

Your local authority will take the asbestos if you double wrap it in polythene (free from a carpet shop!)
Up to a certain level it's free - then quite a high charge.
Although it's likely very low level risk, protect yourself if you diy it. I used disposable overall, gloves, mask, goggles, old shoes and socks. All clothing etc disposed of followed by a shower!

keith969

As others have said, why are you removing it? Its perfectly harmless on its own. The way some people talk, you'd think it was plutonium.

I had corrugated asbestos sheeting on my old garage roof. Just pulled it all off myself and it went in a skip to somewhere the council dealt with it.

sindersoot

It needs to be removed as it is all cracked, bolts have broken free in some areas and it leaks really badly causing water to run down walls and saturates the wooden roof structure. Don't want to remove it ourselves due to it being cracked as this would probably cause it to break up when removal taking place.

economiser

Are you sure it is asbestos? There are other corrugated fibre cement materials used in roofing. I thought ours was asbestos but had it tested and it proved not to be which made removal a lot cheaper.

sindersoot

economiser wrote: »

Are you sure it is asbestos? There are other corrugated fibre cement materials used in roofing. I thought ours was asbestos but had it tested and it proved not to be which made removal a lot cheaper.

We were led to believe it probably would be by the surveyor we used when purchasing the house, although he couldn't be sure without a test being carried out The house was built in the early eighties, around 1984.

Did you use a special company to have the asbestos tested and was it expensive?

If it wasn't asbestos and we could remove it ourselves it would be briliant as it really wouldn't take much work as it is falling apart anyway:rotfl:

timeportal

if you have a small sample you can send then use 2 self seal bags. (sample in 1 bag, seal it then put that bag into a further bag and seal again) then send this to a local Lab (use the UKAS website to find a local one to you)

On average, this will cost approximately £10 - £20.

If you dont have a small enough piece which you can use as a sample then to avoid uncontrolled breakage, you'd need to employ a specialist to take a sample, again through the UKAS website. This will be a little more expensive £100 - £150 pounds

https://www.UKAS.com

Suzy_M

sindersoot wrote: »

The house was built in the early eighties, around 1984.

If it wasn't asbestos and we could remove it ourselves it would be briliant as it really wouldn't take much work as it is falling apart anyway:rotfl:

If the garage was built with the house by professional builders during the 1980s it is unlikely to be asbestos. However, if it was a cowboy outfit, DIY or recycled materials it still might be.

For the time being go with timeportals advice. A couple of hundred now could save you a couple of thousand!

Also might be worth checking with the local planning department as they should have records of the planning permission and possibly the building regulation approval. (By this time their records would be on microfiche if not yet digitised.) Though if it is anything like our council they may have conveniently omitted to keep records of developments where they insisted asbestos be used in the construction!

sindersoot

Thanks timeportal and Suzy M. The housing estate was built by a reputable builder Avonside Homes (timber kit houses) who built the garages at the same time as the houses. Unfortunately that company is no longer in existence but I will give our local Planning Department a call and see if they can help.