Removal of asbestos garage roof

onlyroz

keystone wrote: »

£ 450 for half a days more than easy work? Good grief - I'm totally in the wrong trade.

Cheers

Easy for you. I've never even put up a shelf, let alone climbed up on a garage and taken the roof off. My DIY skills extend to painting and flat-pack assembly. Anything else and I'm happy to pay somebody a reasonable rate to do it for me.

keystone

onlyroz wrote: »

Easy for you. I've never even put up a shelf, let alone climbed up on a garage and taken the roof off.

Sorry I didn't mean you I meant the [STRIKE]cow....[/STRIKE] fellows who are trying to charge you £ 450! Perhaps a PPC has found a new line of business since the wheel seems to be well and truly coming off the Private Parking scam - "c'mon guys lets jump on the asbestos scam bandwagon." Sorry if I appear cynical.

Cheers

keystone

onlyroz wrote: »

I'm happy to pay somebody a reasonable rate to do it for me.

Well thats really what I was carping on about.

Cheers

onlyroz

keystone wrote: »

Sorry I didn't mean you I meant the [STRIKE]cow....[/STRIKE] fellows who are trying to charge you £ 450! Perhaps a PPC has found a new line of business since the wheel seems to be well and truly coming off the Private Parking scam - "c'mon guys lets jump on the asbestos scam bandwagon." Sorry if I appear cynical.

Cheers

Well they've got their own vans:
http://www.qype.co.uk/place/866636-Andrews-Waste-Management-Bordon

keystone

onlyroz wrote: »

Well they've got their own vans.

Well I've got one too but that one couldn't work up here as it won't be LEZ compliant.

As you've now given a clue as to where you are I'll drive down there and do the removal and disposal job for you for £ 400 including all the travel time and the diesel. Is that a more reasonable price? I'd be over the moon and jumping through hoops to get that amount of wedge for a single garage roof..

I'm kidding 'cos I'm not here to tout for business but what I'm really trying to say is that "asbestos removal specialists" overcharge somewhat for an application like yours.

Cheers

onlyroz

Is it overcharging when the first person in this thread estimated £2-3k?

keystone

Totally. Read his second paragraph and look it up then put his second sentence into that context.. Don't confuse asbestos cement boards and corrugated roofing with the really nasty stuff. It isn't. Its relatively innocuous. They'll be finished inside an hour (2 at max) I'll warrant. Is that a reasonable price for an hour or twos easy work plus the disposal fee for the council to be paid on top?

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southcoastrgi

very close to me though wanna go 50/50 ?

marvin

ic wrote: »

Your council will provide a collection facility at the tip, you just have to get it there.

Poor advice if you live in Birmingham as they will turn you away if you take it to a council facility.

They want it double sealed bagged (or covered in thick sheet and sealed if it is whole sheets) and then they, eventually, collect it from you, after you have rung and waited on their "helpline".

Far better to check out what your local council want you to do with the stuff.

Laz123

I did our garage roof years ago. I dressed up in thick coat and trousers, hat, safety glasses, mask and gloves. I wrapped the waste asbestos in thick blue plastic sheets and taped up. It took a couple of hours and sweat. The tip charged me £40.