Smart Asbestos Solutions Essex & South East

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Removing asbestos safely

Asbestos Removal & Collection

  • Roofing
  • Corrugated sheeting
  • Sheds
  • Garages
  • Floor tiles
  • Water tanks
  • Collection

Asbestos removal starts with what you have found: a garage roof, a ceiling, a floor. We take it out safely, leave the site clean, and send you the disposal paperwork that proves where it went.

  • Over 12 years in asbestos removal
  • Qualified & insured
  • HSE Compliant
  • Most jobs completed within a day

What we remove and collect

A detached garage with a weathered corrugated asbestos cement roof and flat asbestos cement wall panels.

Roofs, garages & outbuildings

The corrugated roof sheets, the flat panels down the sides, and the frame underneath if you want it all taken away. Garages, sheds, stables, workshops and farm buildings.

Garage roof removal

A pale ceiling finished in a heavily stippled and swirled textured coating.

Artex & textured ceilings

Swirled, stippled or combed coatings on ceilings and walls, and the plasterboard behind them. It is the one most people find part-way through a job, when a ceiling comes down and everything stops. We take the coating and the boarding away together.

Artex removal

A floor of large pale grey vinyl tiles with dark mottling, one tile lifted to show the black bitumen bed beneath.

Floor tiles & bitumen

Old vinyl or thermoplastic floor tiles and the black tar-like glue underneath. Lifted and bagged.

Floor tile removal

Also removed and collected

  • Wall cladding and exterior panels
  • Cold water tanks and cisterns
  • Gutters, soffits, fascias and downpipes
  • Rainwater goods and flue pipes
  • Loose sheets dumped in a garden or on a plot
  • Broken sheets after a storm or a break-in

All removal services

Five heavy-duty bulk bags on wooden pallets, each printed with a red and black WARNING CONTAINS ASBESTOS label and the UN hazard code.

Already taken it down?

Asbestos cannot go in the household bin, it cannot go in a skip, and most tips will not accept it loose. We collect it properly, and we handle the paperwork that has to travel with it.

  • Collected from driveways, gardens, yards, allotments and building sites.
  • Double-wrapped and labelled on site before anything is lifted.
  • Loaded by hand rather than tipped, so nothing gets broken up in transit.
  • Taken to a licensed facility, and your consignment note follows by email.

Our process, start to finish

A pitched roof being stripped from scaffolding, with corrugated cement sheets lifted off whole and stacked, and the roof battens showing underneath.
  1. Contact us

    Whatever method suits you. Send a photo and a postcode and we can usually price it from that.

  2. Get a quote back

    We aim to give you an estimate on the phone, or shortly after your enquiry. Tell us when you need it gone and we will tell you straight away whether we can make it.

  3. We take it away

    Booked to a day that suits you. We sheet up and damp it down so nothing goes into the air, take it out in whole pieces, and sweep the site before we leave. The paperwork proves where it went.

  4. You get the paperwork

    A hazardous waste consignment note by email. Keep it with the property’s documents: it is what a buyer’s solicitor will ask for when you come to sell.

The things people ask us first

Is it safe to stay in the house until you come?

The risk comes from disturbing it, not from it sitting where it has always been. Do not drill it, sand it, cut it, or sweep up broken pieces.

If something is already broken, shut the door on that room, keep children and pets out of it, and call us.

How do I know whether what I have got is asbestos?

Often you cannot tell by looking, and we would rather you did not find out by breaking a piece off. If it is old and you are not sure, work on the basis that it is asbestos until somebody tells you otherwise.

Send a photo when you enquire and we will talk it through with you.

What does it cost?

It depends on how much there is, how easy it is to get to, and the disposal charge for hazardous waste. That is why we price from a photo and a postcode rather than from a price list.

Ask and you will get a figure rather than a range.

Can I put it in a skip, or take it to the tip myself?

Not in a skip, and not in your household bin. And in this part of the country, not at the tip either. Essex County Council states that asbestos "is not accepted at any Essex County Council recycling centre or in your kerbside collection", and Thurrock Council states that you cannot dispose of asbestos at its Linford recycling centre.

Essex does let residents request a collection of asbestos from their own household, so if you are in Essex, ask the council first. Thurrock runs no such scheme and tells residents to find a private site. Check your own council before you load anything into a car.

Sources: Love Essex, asbestos awareness and Thurrock Council, asbestos, both checked 13 Sep 2026.

How collection actually works.

What proof do I get that it was taken away properly?

A hazardous waste consignment note, by email. The legal record of what was taken and where it went. Keep it with the property’s documents: it is what a buyer’s solicitor will ask for when you come to sell.

How quickly can you come?

We answer the phone 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, and take out-of-hours callouts when something cannot wait. Tell us when you need it gone and we will tell you straight away whether we can make it.

Do we need to be out of the house while you work?

One of the most-asked questions in this trade, and we cannot answer it honestly until we know how these jobs actually run: whether occupants are asked to leave a room, the property, or neither, and whether that differs for a ceiling, a floor and an outdoor roof.

Not covered here? Ask us. There is no charge for a question.

Emergency asbestos removal and collection

We answer the phone 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, and take out-of-hours callouts when something cannot wait. If a find has stopped work on site, say so when you call and we will do what we can to keep your dates. Call us now.

07708 761540

If something has already broken

Make it safe first: shut the door, keep children and pets away, and leave the pieces where they are. Do not sweep it up.

Essex, Kent and London

We cover Essex, Kent and London from one base in Grays, and we go further than this for the right job. The towns below are where we will travel, not a list of jobs we have already done.

  • Grays
  • Basildon
  • Brentwood
  • Chelmsford
  • Romford
  • Hornchurch
  • Dagenham
  • Barking
  • Ilford
  • Harlow
  • Braintree
  • Rayleigh
  • Wickford
  • Canvey Island
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • Dartford
  • Gravesend
  • Maidstone
  • Gillingham
  • Bromley
  • Croydon
  • Harrow
  • Uxbridge
  • Bexleyheath

Full coverage list. Not on the list? Ask anyway, with your postcode.

What customers say, in their own words

Reviews for this business live on its Google listing, where they cannot be edited by us and where you can see who wrote them. We would rather point you at the originals than retype them here.

Before you send it

Whatever it turns out to be, tell us

Most of what we are asked about is cement, textured coating or floor tile, which our own team handles directly. A few materials are more delicate. Either way, send a photo or let us come and look, and we will tell you what it is and what needs doing.

Note

Sprayed coating, pipe and boiler lagging, insulating board and loose fill

These need more care than cement or tiles. If a job like this needs somebody with a licence, we will tell you that too, and what to look for when you are choosing one.

Send the photo anyway. We will tell you what you are looking at, for nothing, and what happens next. More on pipe and boiler lagging.

Worth knowing

Anything in a loft, and anything in a soffit

Cement sheet and insulating board are visually identical in both places. Nobody gets a price for a loft or a soffit until somebody has actually looked at it, in person, which is still a captured enquiry, it is just not a same-call quote.

Request a free quote

Send a photo and a postcode. That is usually enough to price it, and we will get back to you promptly.

  • No obligation
  • No sales call
  • Answered 7am–7pm

Everything here is needed unless it says optional.

So we know whether you are in our patch.
One clear shot from a few steps back is more useful than a close-up.

Prefer us to come and look? Call us on 07708 761540.

Rather just talk? Call us