House Demolition
Demolishing a House
Abyss Demolition are experts in
house demolition. We can help you clear
your site to get ready for rebuilding. We own
excavators, bobcats and trucks so we don't need to rely on
subcontractors and you can be assured the demolition work will
happen ontime. Visit our Contact Us page to email us the details so
we can give you a written quote.
It is common for houses to contain
asbestos. As we hold a business A Class Licence for asbestos
removal we can carry out the asbestos removal prior to demolition
commencing. This saves you from having to engage another contractor
for this prior to demolition and also saves time if hidden
asbestos is discovered during the demolition works.
Your house may contain asbestos if
it was built or renovated prior to 2003. Asbestos was widely
used as construction and insulation material in buildings until the
late 1980s when bans on its manufacture and use were put in place.
However, the use of asbestos was only completely prohibited on 31
December 2003. As the bans were not absolute prior to 2003 and
building materials may have been stockpiled, stored, or
recycled and used, it is possible that asbestos may be present
in buildings that were constructed up to 31 December 2003 and
possibly later.
Any refurbishment or extensions to
the original building prior to 1990 and potentially up to 31
December 2003 may have involved the use of asbestos. Even if the
original parts of the building did not contain asbestos, it
should not be assumed that subsequent additions have no
asbestos.
The following list is where you may
find asbestos containing products in your house:
- exterior- flat, patterned and
corrugated wall and roof sheeting, roof guttering, ridge capping,
imitation brick cladding and lining under eaves
- bathroom, toilet
and laundry -
asbestos cement sheet walls, ceilings and floors, backing to wall
tiles
- living
areas -
insulation in wood heaters, asbestos cement sheeting in walls,
ceilings and beneath wood-heater hearths, asbestos contaminated
carpet underlay carpet
- kitchen
- walls, splashbacks,
ceilings, in vinyl floor tiles, backing of vinyl sheet flooring,
underlay sheeting for ceramic tiles
- other- backing of electrical
meter boards and hot-water pipe insulation set into masonry
walls
- roof
cavity -
loose fill insulation, or asbestos debris contamination left
from previous asbestos roof removal
- backyard - fences, garden sheds,
garages, outside toilets, carports and dog kennels, buried and
dumped waste materials
It was a common practice by
builders prior to 1990 to bury asbestos sheeting offcuts and waste
under house slabs, also to use the asbestos waste in the slab as
fill to cut back on concrete costs and otherwise bury the asbestos
waste onsite to save on dump costs. Unfortunately asbestos
contamination in and under slabs and soil would not be able to be
identified prior to demolition works commencing.
Abyss can arrange to take
samples of suspect asbestos materials and get them tested in a NATA
accredited labratory to identify the asbestos containing
materials.
Visit our contact
us page for a quote today.