I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Does this pose any health risk? If so, how to find a suitably qualified
company to safely remove it?

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I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Does this pose any health risk? If so, how to find a suitably qualified
company to safely remove it?


Asbestos in this roofing form could only pose a health risk if mauled about
with.
If it is still sound and performing its intended function, there should be
no need to remove it,
unless you want rid of the garage that is.

Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

On 21 Oct 2005 13:32:05 -0700, wrote:

I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

So have I and hundreds around me.

Does this pose any health risk?

No, only if you take an angle grinder to it on a windy day with no
mask on. You are in more danger of harm from getting a chunk in your
eye.

If so, how to find a suitably qualified
company to safely remove it?

Only if you have a lot of spare cash in the bank to burn.
The general thought is leave it alone and it will cause no harm for
the remaining 40 or so years of it's life.

abracad_1999 wrote:
I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

I had one of those - lots of people have them. The thing is,
it's probably "corrugated asbestos cement", and....


Does this pose any health risk?

A very, very, very tiny one.


If so, how to find a suitably qualified company to safely remove it?

My gosh! They'll be beating a path to your door!! You can DIY
it, and save hundreds of pounds, if not thousands, depending
on who would have done the job. So: Try a Google on this group.
Find out about the cost of hiring a van for 1/2 a day, if you
haven't an estate or trailer. Telephone your tidy tip, or
council, to find out where you can dispose of it (yes, you can).
Buy a pair of bolt cutters (18") to split the nuts on the bolts
holding the sheets on. Remove the sheets, dump them, and
replace the roof with a nice pitched one (Google again).

On 21 Oct 2005 13:32:05 -0700, wrote:

I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Does this pose any health risk?

No.

If so, how to find a suitably qualified
company to safely remove it?

Easily, there are no end of certified asbestos con artists who will
be only to willing to relieve you of a few thousand pounds. Yellow
Pages will have many listed.

Look at www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk before doing anything expensive.


--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

"Chris Bacon" wrote in message
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abracad_1999 wrote:
I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

I had one of those - lots of people have them. The thing is,
it's probably "corrugated asbestos cement", and....


Does this pose any health risk?

A very, very, very tiny one.


If so, how to find a suitably qualified company to safely remove it?

My gosh! They'll be beating a path to your door!! You can DIY
it, and save hundreds of pounds, if not thousands, depending
on who would have done the job. So: Try a Google on this group.
Find out about the cost of hiring a van for 1/2 a day, if you
haven't an estate or trailer. Telephone your tidy tip, or
council, to find out where you can dispose of it (yes, you can).
Buy a pair of bolt cutters (18") to split the nuts on the bolts
holding the sheets on. Remove the sheets, dump them, and
replace the roof with a nice pitched one (Google again).


Unfortunately you overlooked the single most important piece of advice, i.e.
Do NOT break up the sheets.

Joe Lee

wrote:

I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

Does this pose any health risk?

If white or light grey, no. If blue or brown, yes, but blue and brown
asbestos roofs are a real rarity. And can easily be made totally safe
anyway.


If so, how to find a suitably qualified
company to safely remove it?

Me! Me! £5000 sir!

Unless youre selling, or want to remove the garage altogether, asbestos
makes a good quality long lived roof, if not the most glamorous.

But if youre selling, you'll probably be selling to a line of clueless
people that will freak out and pay a licensed asbestos conartist
thousands of pounds to take the garage down the tip. If selling its
usually best to get rid first, and let them put up a new wood one
that'll rot away instead.


NT

On 21 Oct 2005 13:32:05 -0700, wrote:

| I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.
|
| Does this pose any health risk? If so, how to find a suitably qualified
| company to safely remove it?

Are you sure it is asbestos? At some date they started making the stuff
without asbestos. Mine installed c1997 is asbestos free.
--
Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk
"Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*.
"Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*.

wrote:
But if youre selling, you'll probably be selling to a line of clueless
people that will freak out and pay a licensed asbestos conartist
thousands of pounds to take the garage down the tip. If selling its
usually best to get rid first, and let them put up a new wood one
that'll rot away instead.

A "wood" roof? Hmm. Anyway, when I sold a rental property earlier
this year, no-one even mentioned the asbestos cement garage roof
- so maybe the hysteria is not too widespread (hopefully!).

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:25:39 +0100, Chris Bacon
wrote:

abracad_1999 wrote:
I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.

I had one of those - lots of people have them. The thing is,
it's probably "corrugated asbestos cement", and....


Does this pose any health risk?

A very, very, very tiny one.


If so, how to find a suitably qualified company to safely remove it?

My gosh! They'll be beating a path to your door!! You can DIY
it, and save hundreds of pounds, if not thousands, depending
on who would have done the job. So: Try a Google on this group.
Find out about the cost of hiring a van for 1/2 a day, if you
haven't an estate or trailer. Telephone your tidy tip, or
council, to find out where you can dispose of it (yes, you can).
Buy a pair of bolt cutters (18") to split the nuts on the bolts
holding the sheets on. Remove the sheets, dump them, and
replace the roof with a nice pitched one (Google again).

Taking it to the tip will be tricky as most stop vans going in and
will only allow cars under a height barrier. You're supposed to
transport it double wrapped in a separate compartment from the drivers
section. You can pay some geezers to officially remove it and they'll
just throw it in the back of their transit van no worries.
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Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On 21 Oct 2005 13:32:05 -0700, wrote:

| I have a garage with a corrugated asbestos roof.
|
| Does this pose any health risk? If so, how to find a suitably qualified
| company to safely remove it?

Are you sure it is asbestos? At some date they started making the stuff
without asbestos. Mine installed c1997 is asbestos free.
All this talk of thousands of pounds when I enquired it was going to
cost £400 for the whole garage.

Paul

Paul wrote:
All this talk of thousands of pounds when I enquired it was going to
cost £400 for the whole garage.

I agree. I just had the entire roof of my house removed and replaced
with slate. Old roof was concrete-asbestos - stamped on the bottom of
each tile!
Cost £240 for special small skip from Stowmarket Skip Hire, Suffolk.
My builders did the removal. I had budgeted a lot more, so celebrations
in our hause last week!

Jon.