Asbestos Removal - What a Rip!

[accountantpete]

???

you asked for it

 

[asterix]

What sort of asbestos? Some is relatively benign. It is extraordinary the sort of stuff that has it: floor tiles, pads under ss sinks, you name it they tried it out with asbestos. In France I got rid of my own (corrugated roof), took it to the proper tip who charged about 300 euros. A lot of UK councils will also charge to take it.

 

[MontyVeda]

knotweed is really big meter stuff. I've seen a building site lay fallow because nobody would insure against the knotweed coming back even after we'd put concrete on top.

a proper knotweed removal company should give at least a 5 year guarantee against it's return, but one of the facts/myths is it can lay dormant for a couple of decades and return. It's not necessarily true that it can grow through concrete either, that's another half truth the bastards will use to scare people into paying astronomical prices for it's removal. The banks are also going all drama queen too by refusing mortgages even if knotweed is on neighbouring land in some cases, rendering certain perfectly sound properties unsellable unless the owner can get their neighbours to spend a fortune moving a weed.

 

[Archie_tect]

As with all government registered processes,once contractors have become registered they can charge what they like. Same with registered installers for PV to qualify for Fit In Tariff and civil engineering contractors approved for work in adopted Highways. It's a scam.

 

[Globalti]

Expensive "specialists" are there for arse-covering builders, factory owners etc who want to be able to say they've done the job properly. Householders can go to the dump and get special bags for asbestos then take it along for free. We disposed of an entire asbestos sheet roof off a 1930s garage that way.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What sort of asbestos? It is extraordinary the sort of stuff that has it

Friendly as it turned out, nastier would've been into the thousands. Ours was used for the soffit boards under the eaves.

 

[rich p]

Friendly as it turned out, nastier would've been into the thousands. Ours was used for the soffit boards under the eaves.

I, too, have asbestos soffits but they're staying put. We just use aqualungs when we're indoors

 

[MontyVeda]

Expensive "specialists" are there for arse-covering builders, factory owners etc who want to be able to say they've done the job properly. Householders can go to the dump and get special bags for asbestos then take it along for free. We disposed of an entire asbestos sheet roof off a 1930s garage that way.

I've done that too, but it was in the early nineties... things may have changed since then. Simply turning up at the tip in a van these days requires a fair bit of hoop jumping, regardless of its contents.

 

[colly]

I once went to the Mintex factory at Cleckheaton and had to walk through the weaving shed. The place was festooned in cobweb like hanging of asbestos.
None of yer namby pamby elfansaifty nonsense then.

Men was men I tells yer an coffs were summat to be proud of.

 

[Maz]

The roof of my old garage was asbestos. Got a quote of a couple of 100 quid to get rid of it, which was a couple of 100 quid more than I was willing to spend so I disposed of it myself, wearing a face mask etc in the process.