Asbestos Removal Matraville

Matraville was developed through the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as housing for workers in the industry around Botany Bay, including a significant number of war service and public homes. The stock is consistently single-storey brick veneer and fibro with asbestos-cement eaves, detached garages, laundries and dividing fences, and the flat sandy ground meant almost every property has a slab-on-ground outbuilding of that era at the rear.

Sandy ground is the quiet complication in Matraville. Where asbestos-cement sheeting has been broken over the years — a fence panel snapped, a shed wall punched through, offcuts buried by a previous owner — the fragments do not sit on the surface the way they do on clay. They work down into the sand and turn up later when someone digs a footing or a pool.

So on a job where material has obviously been damaged, we look at the ground as well as the structure. Removing a fence and leaving the debris beside it solves nothing.

The buildings themselves are straightforward. Single-skin fibro garages, laundries and side fences of the 1950s come off cleanly when they have been left alone, and a typical Matraville property is a one-day job including the fence line.

Neighbours often share the fence removal here, which is the sensible way to do it — the structure is shared, and half a fence is not a result.

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 Matraville 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.