Concrete garage with corrugated asbestos roof - Woking

[spurs coupe]

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

[kingston12]

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.

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.

[Woody.GTJ]

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

[fatboy18]

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.

[spurs coupe]

Update

I booked TAG asbestos removals, I must say, very pleased with them.

Good price, good communication, happy customer.

[Gc285]

cost me £500 2 years ago for a single garage roof in Camberley using a reputable company. It took them about 2 hours.