Asbestos Removal Botany
Botany grew around industry, and its asbestos reflects that — workers' cottages with fibro outbuildings on one side of the street, factory and workshop sheeting on the other.
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Asbestos in Botany homes
Botany is one of Sydney's oldest industrial districts, and its residential stock is modest workers' housing from the inter-war and post-war decades, interleaved with working industrial land toward Port Botany and Banksmeadow. Asbestos cement is present domestically as eaves, garages, laundries and fencing, and industrially at much larger scale as corrugated roof sheeting and wall cladding on factories, workshops and stores built between the 1940s and 1970s.
Commercial work here has one constraint that domestic work does not: the business usually cannot stop. A workshop roof over an operating tenancy has to come off in sections, with the floor below cleared and sealed area by area, and often outside trading hours.
That is workable, but it has to be designed rather than improvised. We would rather walk the building with whoever runs it and agree the staging before quoting a number.
The residential streets are simpler. Small cottages with a fibro garage, a laundry and a fence line, most of it original, most of it removable in a day.
One local point worth making: Botany’s proximity to heavy industry means owners sometimes assume any old sheeting is asbestos, or that none of it is. Neither guess is reliable. A sample and a result costs very little against the difference in what happens next.
Where it turns up locally
- Fibro sheeting on walls, eaves and garages
- Corrugated asbestos-cement roofing and sheds
- Asbestos-cement fencing along boundaries
- Vinyl floor tiles and their backing adhesive
Disposal
Asbestos waste from Botany has to go to a facility lawfully licensed to accept it. We transport to Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park in Lucas Heights — a licensed facility that accepts correctly wrapped bonded asbestos You get the disposal documentation with your invoice.
Botany at a glance
- Postcode
- 2019
- Council
- Bayside Council
- Nearby
- Mascot, Banksmeadow, Pagewood, Hillsdale, Port Botany
- Disposal
- Lucas Heights Resource Recovery Park
Servicing Botany
We service Botany NSW 2019 and the surrounding area.
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What we remove in Botany
Asbestos removal
Bonded and friable asbestos removed by SafeWork NSW licensed removalists, with sealed transport and lawful disposal documentation on every job.
View asbestos removal →Commercial removal
Asbestos removed from commercial and industrial sites with staged programmes, full site documentation and minimal disruption to trading.
View commercial removal →Roof removal
Corrugated asbestos-cement roofing removed and replaced in the one job, so the building is watertight the same day.
View roof removal →Residential removal
Asbestos removed from homes, garages, sheds, eaves and bathrooms, with the site left clean and the disposal documented.
View residential removal →Demolition
House and commercial demolition and internal strip-outs, with any asbestos removed under licence before demolition starts.
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Asbestos removal in Botany — 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.
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Need asbestos removed in Botany?
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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