Asbestos Garage Removal in Guildford

A standard single garage in Guildford runs to around eight to twelve corrugated sheets, depending on the pitch and the overhang, and the roof itself is usually somewhere near sixteen to twenty square metres. On a dry day with clear access we have the lot down and bagged within a few hours, and the whole job, roof off and site tidied, usually fits inside a single day.

The sheets come off whole. We loosen the few dozen rusted fixings, work along the rows from the top, and lift each sheet down by hand rather than cut, snap or drop it, because breaking a sheet is what puts fibres in the air. Every sheet is kept intact, double wrapped and labelled, then loaded straight onto the van as the controlled waste it is. For a domestic garage roof in good enough condition to handle that way there is normally no skip on the drive, which on the tighter terraces around Charlotteville matters. Your road and your neighbour's stay clear.

A garage roof of bonded cement sheets is non-licensed work, so it does not need the fourteen days of notice to the HSE or the full enclosure and four-stage clearance testing by an independent analyst that higher-risk licensed jobs carry. It still gets done properly, under controlled conditions, with the right protective kit and the sheets kept wet where needed to hold the dust down. Graham, who owns Clearaway and runs the local jobs himself, prices the roof off what he can see, not off a phone description, so you know what is coming before anyone climbs up.

We have been working across this part of Surrey for more than seven years, on garages and outbuildings in the GU postcodes and the villages towards Shalford and Albury where converted barns and period cottages throw up the odd surprise. Guildford has a lot of rented houses and student lets, and landlords often find a tired garage roof during a void or a sale. We can survey first if there is any doubt, taking a sample to a UKAS-accredited laboratory to confirm what the sheets actually contain before a single bolt is touched.

Everything leaves as controlled waste with the paperwork to prove it, and the drive is swept before we go. No broken sheets stacked by the bins, no dust trodden into the house, no surprise costs once we are up on the roof. Because Graham runs the jobs himself, the person who quotes the work is the person who turns up to do it, which is not something every firm can say.

Clearaway is fully licensed, Spectra licence number 142305706, and has spent more than seven years on jobs like this around Guildford and the wider area. If you have a corrugated garage or shed roof you want gone, call us on 0800 024 6168 and we will come and look at it.