We have a 1930s house. We want to extend the rather small bathroom out over
the stairs, however, the wall between the bathroom and landing is asbestos.
I've read the discussions on asbestos from last week and noted the comments
concerning scaremongering.

What sort of cost would I be looking at to have an asbestos wall of size 6
feet by 9 feet removed ?

Cheers in advance

Dave

"David Rose" wrote in message
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We have a 1930s house. We want to extend the rather small bathroom out
over
the stairs, however, the wall between the bathroom and landing is
asbestos.
I've read the discussions on asbestos from last week and noted the
comments
concerning scaremongering.

What sort of cost would I be looking at to have an asbestos wall of size 6
feet by 9 feet removed ?

We've got the Asbestos removers in at work
....costs thousands

At home if it's white Asbestos
(shine a torch at it - if it sparkles it's not Asbestos)
you can remove it yourself - wet it with something like
a PVA solution whilst taking other precautions like preventing
dust spread & wearing breathing mask & disposable hooded
boiler suit - good meodern vac will cope with residual dust

That's what the Pro's we hire do.

What a very dangerous and unhelpful statement to make
"(shine a torch at it - if it sparkles it's not Asbestos)"

The only way you as a non trained person will know if it is asbestos or not
is to get it checked out by the professionals.

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:26:32 -0000, "David Rose"
wrote:

We have a 1930s house. We want to extend the rather small bathroom out over
the stairs, however, the wall between the bathroom and landing is asbestos.

Asbestos cement sheeting was commonly used for wall covering in place
of plaster in the 30's.

What sort of cost would I be looking at to have an asbestos wall of size 6
feet by 9 feet removed ?

A local school of similar vintage had a wall about 20ft long and
8-9ft high covered on one side by these sheets which had to be
removed when rebuilding was going on. Although the Asbestos
(Licensing) Regulations 1983 do _not_ require the use of licensed
contractors to carry out work on asbestos cement the local authority
have a policy of always using them on all asbestos products.

The bill was over £7,000. The "professional" licensed asbestos
scammer doing it went ballistic when he discovered I'd sprayed it all
with fluorescein dye the day before he took it out so we could
identify it if it was illegally dumped. People did wonder why he was
so annoyed.

You might like to look at http://www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk/need.html


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"David Rose" wrote:

We have a 1930s house. We want to extend the rather small bathroom out over
the stairs, however, the wall between the bathroom and landing is asbestos.
I've read the discussions on asbestos from last week and noted the comments
concerning scaremongering.

What sort of cost would I be looking at to have an asbestos wall of size 6
feet by 9 feet removed ?


On the positive side, we're about to have all the white asbestos
cement ceilings in our 1930s house removed. The man from the council
came around (his card says Buildings Maintenance but we contacted
Environmental Health IIRC) and quoted us £15 per "wrap" to remove the
stuff, so long as we arranged for it to be stacked outside ready for his
men. He reckoned that a 3 by 5m ceiling (one of the rooms) would take
about 3 "wraps" if that's any help. I suppose that equates to roughly
5sqm per wrap, but it depends whether we manage to get the stuff out in
largeish chunks / sheets or whether it breaks into little bits.

He was quite confident we could remove it ourselves, with disposable
overalls, masks and some common sense. We're in the middle of a huge
renovation project, so we're quite happy to scrap carpets rather than
going to great lengths with dust sheets and so on.

Commercial companies seem to be charging £450 or so for a skip, no
matter how full you can fill it, and don't even think about asking them
to remove the stuff, that's when you start talking about bills of
thousands. Originally we were only looking at removing one or two
ceilings, but the idea of sending out a nine-tenths empty skip grated.
The council is willing to charge for part-skips because it is able to
fill the skip elsewhere on the same day.

Do get the stuff checked first though. A proper test will cost, but we
struck lucky - our council man had worked on another identical house
just up the road a few years previously and was able to say with some
confidence what we had. The whole row is ex-council, by the way.

HTH

Hwyl!

M.

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