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Asbestos Removal Sydney

Found fibro in the garage, a cracked asbestos roof, or a fence that is falling apart? We remove it safely, dispose of it lawfully, and give you the paperwork to prove it.

  • SafeWork NSW licensed removalists
  • Free, no-obligation quotes
  • 7 days a week across Greater Sydney
  • Lawful disposal, documented
02 8417 2964Get a free quote
Removal by SafeWork NSW licensed removalists
7 days a week across Greater Sydney & the Central Coast
Free, no-obligation quotes

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Tell us what you have found and we will come back with a price. Prefer to talk? Call 02 8417 2964.

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What we remove

We remove bonded and friable asbestos from homes, garages, roofs, fences, soil and commercial sites across Greater Sydney and the Central Coast. Every job is quoted before it starts, isolated while it runs, and documented when it finishes.

How it works

  1. Send a photo

    Photograph it from a safe distance, or just describe it on the phone. We will tell you what you are looking at.

  2. Free quote

    We measure the job, confirm whether it is bonded or friable, and give you a fixed price.

  3. Safe removal

    The area is isolated and the material is removed under controls to the NSW code of practice.

  4. Lawful disposal

    Waste goes to a licensed facility and you get the disposal documentation with your invoice.

Asbestos in Sydney homes and buildings

Australia did not ban asbestos outright until 31 December 2003, and it was in Australian building products for most of the century before that. The NSW Government's own figure is thataround one in three houses built before 1990 contains asbestos somewhere. In Sydney, where so much of the housing stock is post-war fibro and mid-century brick with fibro additions, that describes an ordinary street rather than an unlucky one.

Which is the first thing worth saying: finding asbestos is not an emergency in most cases. Bonded asbestos cement — fibro sheeting, eaves, corrugated garage roofing, boundary fencing — is stable while it is intact and undisturbed. The risk comes from breaking, cutting, drilling, sanding, water-blasting or weathering it. If you have just found something and it is not damaged, the correct next step is to leave it alone and get it looked at, not to deal with it today.

The version that is urgent is material that is already broken: a storm-cracked roof, a fence hit by a car, a wall opened up mid-renovation, or anything that has been burnt. In that case, close the area off, keep people and pets out, do not sweep it and do not vacuum it — a domestic vacuum passes fibres straight through the filter and out the exhaust — and photograph it from a distance.

What we do, and what we do not

We remove both bonded and friable asbestos. Friable material — anything you could crumble by hand when dry, including bonded material that has degraded far enough — is Class A licensed work in NSW regardless of quantity, and it cannot be signed off without air monitoring and a clearance certificate from a licensed asbestos assessor.

We do not publish DIY removal instructions and we do not recommend DIY removal. NSW law limits an unlicensed person to 10 m² of non-friable asbestos in total, and even inside that limit SafeWork NSW recommends using a licensed removalist. Most of the real exposure in a home removal is not in the lifting — it is in breaking the material and in the clean-up afterwards, and those are the two steps that go wrong.

You can check any removalist's licence yourself, free, on the NSW public licence register. We would rather you did — it takes a minute, and it is the single best protection against the operators this industry attracts.

The front of a well-kept single-storey house clad in flat blue-painted asbestos-cement sheets with white-framed windows.
A tidy post-war fibro home. Asbestos cement is just as common in houses that look perfectly sound.
The corner of a house clad in pale green corrugated cement sheeting, with a wall light and a decorative metal screen door.
Corrugated wall cladding is easily mistaken for painted weatherboard. The profile is shallower and the sheet runs unbroken past the corner.
Close-up of a painted flat asbestos-cement wall, showing the fine butt join between two sheets and a moulded cover strip.
The join between two flat sheets, with a moulded cover strip over it. Sheet size and the strip are the tell, not the surface.

Answers before you call

Most people who ring us want one of three things first: to know what it costs, to know whether it is asbestos at all, or to know what the rules actually are.

Where we work

Greater Sydney & the Central Coast. Our crews are mobile — there is no yard you drop material off at, we come to the property.

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What Sydney customers say

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Common questions

Do I get documentation showing it was disposed of properly?

Yes. Asbestos is a regulated waste stream in NSW, so it has to be wrapped, labelled, transported and received at a facility licensed to accept it. You receive the disposal documentation with your invoice. On friable or Class A work you also receive the clearance certificate issued by a licensed asbestos assessor.

How do I know for certain whether it is asbestos?

You cannot tell for certain by looking at it, and neither can we. Only a NATA-accredited laboratory can confirm the presence of asbestos, by analysing a sample under AS 4964-2004. We refer you to a licensed asbestos assessor, who collects the sample safely and has it analysed, and you get the laboratory's written result. Be wary of anyone offering an instant on-site result — that is an opinion, not an analysis.

How long does asbestos removal take?

Most residential jobs are done in a single day. A garage roof or a fence run is usually a few hours; a full house strip-out or friable removal with air monitoring and a clearance certificate takes longer, because the area has to stay isolated until the clearance is issued. We give you a realistic timeframe with the quote rather than after the job starts.

Is there likely to be asbestos in my home?

If your home was built or renovated before the late 1980s, it is likely to contain asbestos somewhere. In Sydney the usual places are fibro wall and ceiling sheeting, eaves, corrugated roofing on garages and sheds, boundary fencing, and the backing under old vinyl floor tiles. Bonded asbestos that is intact and undisturbed is generally stable — the risk comes from breaking, cutting, drilling or weathering it.

What does asbestos removal cost?

Price depends on the material, how much of it there is, how accessible it is, and whether it is bonded or friable. Small jobs such as a fence run or a shed roof are priced as a fixed job; larger jobs are usually priced per square metre with a minimum call-out. Disposal is a real cost in every quote because licensed facilities charge by the tonne. Our cost guide sets out the ranges, and a free quote gives you the actual number.

Found something you think is asbestos?

Do not touch it, break it or sweep it up. Send us a photo from a safe distance and we will tell you what you are looking at and what it costs to remove.

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