Commercial asbestos removal
Commercial asbestos removal for landlords, letting agents, schools, small industrial units, shops, pubs, builders and developers comes down to the same problem: something has to come out of a building people still need to use. We plan the work around that, and hand over the paperwork that proves it was done properly.
- Over 12 years in asbestos removal
- Qualified & insured
- HSE Compliant
- Most jobs completed within a day
If you manage the building, the duty to manage is yours
- Who it applies to
- The owner, landlord, or whoever has clear responsibility for the building’s upkeep
- What it applies to
- All non-domestic premises, and the common parts of multi-occupancy domestic premises, like purpose-built flats
- What it does not cover
- The inside of a single owner-occupier’s own house
- The presumption
- Materials are presumed to contain asbestos unless there is strong evidence they do not
- The paper trail
- A record of where it is and what condition it is in, and a management plan reviewed every 12 months
This comes from regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, checked 13 Sep 2026, and HSE's own guidance on it. If none of that has been written down yet for your building, that is the starting point, not a reason to wait.
Survey first, then work built around the building
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Survey first
We will tell you what a survey needs to cover, and what to look for in who carries it out, before anything is planned. Quoting a job in an occupied building without knowing what is actually there, and where, is how schedules and budgets go wrong later.
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A plan built around occupancy
Tenanted flats, a trading shop, a working industrial unit and an empty unit between lets are four different jobs, even when the material is the same. Tell us which one this is and we plan around it.
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Out of hours or over a weekend, if that keeps you open
Work scheduled after trading hours or across a weekend costs the business less than a closure, and we will plan to that where the job allows it.
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Removal and clearance
The same careful method regardless of when the work happens: contained, wrapped and taken away without breaking it up.
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Paperwork handed over
The consignment note for what left the building, and anything else that needs to go into your asbestos register and management plan.
What a duty holder needs to keep on file
This is the part of the job most businesses undervalue until an inspection, a sale, or a new tenant asks for it. It is also where we do our most useful work.
- The asbestos register: what is in the building, and where.
- The management plan, and a note of when it was last reviewed.
- The survey report the register was built from.
- A consignment note for every load of waste that leaves the site.
- Anything given to contractors before they started work, and a record that it was given.
If some of this already exists but has not been looked at in a while, that is still worth a call. A register that is out of date is better fixed before an inspection than during one.
Two kinds of survey, and why the order matters
A survey to manage what is already there
Done while the building stays in use, to build or update the register and the management plan. It tells you what condition things are in, not necessarily what needs to come out.
A survey before work starts
Done ahead of refurbishment, demolition or a change of use, usually once the space is empty, because it has to look at material a management survey would leave undisturbed. This is the one that tells us what actually needs removing before your contractors go in.
You do not have to close to get this done
Note
Occupied does not mean untouchable
A block with tenants in it, a shop trading downstairs, a unit running shifts: none of that rules the work out, it just changes how we schedule it. Common parts, a single unit, or a whole floor between lets are all workable, and out-of-hours or weekend working is often the difference between doing the job and closing to do it.
Tell us how the building is used and when it cannot be disturbed, and we will build the job around that rather than the other way round.
What duty holders ask us
Who actually counts as the dutyholder?
Whoever has clear responsibility for maintaining or repairing the building, which is usually the owner or the landlord, though a managing agent can hold it by agreement. If you are unsure whether that is you, that question alone is worth a call before anything else.
Does this apply to a house I let out to one family?
No. The duty to manage covers non-domestic premises and the common parts of multi-occupancy domestic premises, like purpose-built flats, not a single let house. HSE is explicit that common parts do not include rooms in a private house shared by more than one household, which is what a shared house or house in multiple occupation is, so a shared kitchen or bathroom there is not covered either. A block of purpose-built flats is different: its actual common parts, the hallway, stairs, roof space or a shared boiler room, are covered even though the flats themselves are not. Source: HSE, checking if the duty to manage applies, checked 13 Sep 2026.
We have never had a survey. Where do we start?
With one. We do not carry surveys out ourselves. Tell us about the building and we will tell you what a survey needs to cover and what to look for in who carries it out, so you are not starting that conversation from nothing.
Can the work happen without closing the shop or the unit?
Often, yes. Out-of-hours and weekend working exist specifically for this. Tell us your trading hours when you call and we will tell you honestly whether the job fits around them or needs a short closure.
What do we actually need to keep afterwards?
The consignment note for anything taken away, and an updated register and management plan if the survey or the work changes what is recorded. Keep them with the building’s other compliance paperwork, not with the invoice.
The rest of the site, if this is one part of a bigger job
Most commercial jobs turn out to be one or two of these, once the survey has told us what is actually there.
Something has already gone wrong rather than being planned. Emergency callouts covers that instead.
Tell us about the building
What the premises are used for, who is in them, and when work would and would not be disruptive. That is enough to start the conversation.