Asbestos removal
If your place went up before the late 1980s, there is a fair chance the eaves, the bathroom lining or the fence has asbestos cement in it. Undisturbed, it sits there. The moment a renovation starts, it becomes a job for someone licensed.
All of it non-friable, which is what a Class B licence covers, and which is what turns up in almost every Canberra renovation.
The work area is sealed and signed. Everyone on site is in the right gear. The material comes down wet where it should be, goes straight into approved wrapping, and is taken to a licensed facility. Nothing goes in a skip.
Then an independent licensed assessor inspects the area and issues the clearance certificate. That certificate is the thing worth having: it is written by someone with no stake in our work.
“Professional, communicated clearly, and completed the job efficiently. Reliable, easy to deal with, and left everything clean afterwards.”
Ryan Grippi, Google review
Cost
Asbestos removal is priced by what it is, how much there is, and how hard it is to get at. A laundry is not a roof.
Tony, this is where a straight answer beats every competitor in town, because none of them publish one. Are you happy to put a starting price or a typical bathroom range here? Even “most bathrooms land between X and Y” would do it. And do you have a minimum call-out?
Tony, does your quote include the disposal and the clearance inspection, and is it fixed once you’ve given it? If so, say it here. It answers the thing every homeowner is actually worried about.
Not in the ACT. Most of Australia lets a homeowner remove up to ten square metres of non-friable asbestos without a licence. The ACT took that exception out. Here, asbestos removal work is for a licensed removalist, whatever the size of it.
You can’t tell by looking, and neither can we with certainty. What we can do is look at your photo and tell you whether it is the kind of material that usually is, and whether it is worth getting a sample tested before you go any further. Testing is done by an independent assessor.
No. Loose-fill is friable asbestos and it needs a Class A licensed removalist. We hold Class B. If that is what you have found, call us anyway and we will tell you who to ring, and you can check any removalist yourself on the WorkSafe ACT public register.
An independent licensed asbestos assessor, not us. We arrange the inspection as part of the job.
Yes, and it is not optional. A licensed removalist has to give WorkSafe ACT five days’ written notice before licensed removal work starts. We handle that.
To a facility licensed to take it. In the ACT that means a booked drop at Mugga Lane, arranged through the operator, not a general waste bin. It never goes in a skip and it never goes to the tip with the rest of the demolition waste.