No not in the cases I've had, 200 max if its huge amounts of the most
dangerous kind also did the people have an asbestos disposal certificate and
if they did I was under the impression from the blokes who came here that
they would have to seal the load before moving it, or bag it. I'm very
suspicious. Did this guy wear a Stetson and some guns and arrive on a horse?
Brian

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Hello all.

My father in law is having his roof replaced (slates, membrane and perhaps
battens). The old roof materials were put in a skip and when the skip man
came to collect, he said that he suspected that some of the waste contained
asbestos and that there would be an £800 surcharge for removal.

I think the alleged asbestos-containing material was the old, man-made roof
slates. The chap supposedly took a sample and then showed my father in law a
statement or report from a testing lab, but did not leave the document with
him.

Firstly, is £800 a reasonable charge for collecting a skip with some
asbestos-containing waste?

Secondly, do materials containing *any* detectable asbestos require
specialist, expensive disposal, or is there a threshold amount beyond which
the requirement is triggered?

I would have liked to have had the opportunity to take a sample and get it
tested, myself, but my father in law has paid up and the waste is gone.

Thanks.

Ant.