Asbestos Removal Leura

Leura is characterised by inter-war and post-war cottages and garden properties, many built or extended in the 1930s to 1960s when asbestos cement was the standard material for outbuildings. The suburb's garden culture left an unusual density of small structures — potting sheds, tool sheds, garage and carport roofs, and fibro sleep-outs — that were built in asbestos cement and have never been replaced, alongside eaves lining and rear additions on the houses themselves.

Leura jobs are usually small structures rather than buildings, and small structures are where people most often decide to do it themselves. A three by two metre potting shed does not look like a licensed removal. It is one, and the fibro is generally more fragile than it looks because it has been under trees for fifty years.

The practical difficulty in Leura is getting to the thing. These sheds sit at the back of established gardens, behind hedging, down steps, past beds the owner does not want walked through. Working out the route matters, and we would rather agree it before we start than negotiate it with a wrapped load in hand.

The other frequent item is garage and carport roofing in corrugated asbestos cement, often with a mature tree over it. Branch debris and years of leaf litter mean the sheets are usually cracked in places nobody has looked at, so they come off supported rather than levered.

Small jobs still travel to Blaxland with the same wrapping and the same paperwork.

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 Leura has to go to a facility lawfully licensed to accept it. We transport to Blaxland Resource Recovery and Waste Management Facility in Blaxland — the Blue Mountains council facility that accepts bonded asbestos, by prior booking You get the disposal documentation with your invoice.