Asbestos Removal Woodford

Woodford is a small settlement of cottages on large, heavily treed blocks either side of the highway and railway, with housing running from inter-war weatherboard through post-war fibro. Because the village stayed small and was never redeveloped, an unusually high proportion of its original asbestos-cement outbuildings — sheds, woodstores, carports, outside laundries and toilet blocks — are still standing and still in service.

Bush blocks make Woodford jobs a question of what else is on the property. An owner rings about the shed; on site there is also a woodstore with an asbestos-cement roof, an old outside toilet, and a run of sheeting used as a garden edge somewhere down the back.

None of that is a problem while it is intact and undisturbed. All of it becomes one if a mower, a brushcutter or a falling limb finds it first, which on a treed block is a matter of time.

So we tend to quote the property rather than the item here. One visit that clears everything is cheaper than three trips up the highway, and it removes the pieces most likely to be broken by accident later.

Where sheeting has already been broken into the ground — a common find under old garden edging — the affected soil comes out with it. That is the part owners least expect and the part most likely to be missed by a general handyman.

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 Woodford 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.