Asbestos RemovalNon-Licensed & LicensedIn Bishop Auckland & The North East

Asbestos cement sheeting is the most common material we encounter, typically on garage, farm building and older industrial roofs and cladding, where it becomes brittle and starts shedding fibres as it ages or is damaged. Cement cladding panels on commercial and agricultural buildings fall into the same non-licensed category and are removed using the same controlled methods.

Vinyl and thermoplastic floor tiles in older houses, offices and commercial units can contain asbestos in the tile or the adhesive backing, and are lifted carefully rather than scraped or sanded, which would release fibres. Rope seals and gaskets around old boilers, flues and industrial pipework are another common non-licensed find, usually small in volume but requiring the same controlled removal and disposal as larger material.

Licensed materials, sprayed asbestos coatings, asbestos insulation board used for fire protection and partitioning, and pipe lagging, carry higher fibre release risk and sit outside what we remove directly. These are identified at survey stage and passed to our trusted licensed specialist partner, who carries the licence required to handle them.

A management survey identifies asbestos-containing material in a building that remains in use, so it can be monitored or scheduled for removal. A refurbishment and demolition survey is more intrusive and is required before any structural work, strip-out or demolition, because it has to find material that would otherwise be hidden behind finishes or inside voids. We work from whichever survey applies to the job, or arrange for one where none exists.

Non-licensed removal is carried out with wetting-down or dust suppression to limit fibre release, using the correct personal protective equipment and controlled work areas. Where licensed removal is required, our partner arranges any air testing or clearance certification the work requires as part of their scope, and we coordinate the timing so it fits the rest of the programme rather than sitting as a separate, disconnected contract.

Standalone asbestos removal, where a homeowner, landlord or business needs material dealt with independently of any wider building work: a garage roof, a set of floor tiles, a boiler room seal. Pre-demolition and pre-refurbishment removal, where asbestos is cleared as the first stage of a demolition or strip-out contract we are also carrying out, sequenced so the rest of the job can proceed without interruption.

Emergency removal after storm or fire damage, where cracked or displaced cement sheeting or cladding needs making safe quickly. Ongoing management for landlords and site owners with an asbestos register, where non-licensed items identified for removal are scheduled and cleared over time rather than all at once.

On domestic properties, asbestos removal is usually small in scale, a garage roof, a farm outbuilding, floor tiles in an older kitchen or hallway, and is dealt with directly with the homeowner as part of a demolition job or as standalone work, with the same survey and controlled removal process applied at a scale that suits the job.

On commercial and industrial sites, asbestos removal is typically larger in volume and more likely to involve licensed material such as insulation board or sprayed coatings, particularly in buildings from the 1960s to 1980s. It is usually the first stage of a wider demolition or refurbishment contract, sequenced against a principal contractor's programme, with documentation issued that a client or their insurer can review before the rest of the works proceed.

We are based at 9 The Mill, Ramshaw, Bishop Auckland, which keeps most of County Durham within a short mobilisation and Teesside, Tyneside, Wearside and North Yorkshire comfortably within reach for asbestos surveys and removal work. Contract works are taken nationwide.

Our permanent team of eight, scaling to around twenty with trusted subcontractors, plus our licensed specialist partner for higher-risk material, means non-licensed removal on a single garage roof and licensed removal across a multi-building industrial site can both be scheduled without one holding up the other.