Bedfordshire, East of England
Asbestos surveys, testing, removal, disposal and management in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Licensable work is done by HSE-licensed contractors, as the law requires. Every enquiry starts with a free quote, with no obligation.
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Bedfordshire
Across Bedfordshire, asbestos is not accepted at Bedford's household waste recycling centre or at Central Bedfordshire's tidy tips, and neither council collects it.
Council schemes are for small amounts that have already been taken down and wrapped. For anything more, or anything still in place, we arrange the whole job in Bedford: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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74.1% of properties in the Bedford council area were built before 2000
That's 60,440 of 81,610. Asbestos wasn't fully banned until 1999. Only a survey or a test can tell you about one property: do you need an asbestos survey on a house?
Across the Bedford council area there are 81,610 domestic properties, with semi-detached houses the largest group (25.8%), and around 74.1% of them were built before the 1999 ban. The largest group was built since 2000. Property built from 2000 onwards is after the ban, so it should be free of asbestos as built. Anything older on the same plot, and any part retained from an earlier building, is a different matter. In semi-detached housing the most common finds are asbestos cement garage and shed roofs, textured coatings on ceilings, insulating board in airing cupboards and around boilers, and cement soffits and rainwater goods. The next largest group is terraced houses at 23.6%, where party walls and shared roof spaces mean neighbouring work can disturb material next door. By period, 13.3% were built before 1900, 9.1% between 1919 and 1939 and 25.4% since 2000. None of that tells you whether a particular property contains asbestos; only a survey or a laboratory test can.
Our Bedford coverage runs across MK40, MK41, MK42, MK43, MK44 and MK45, and out into the wider Bedford area: Kempston, Wootton, Wixams, Shortstown, Bromham, Clapham and Great Denham.
Bedford is a Bedfordshire borough of around 81,610 domestic properties. It mixes older terraced and semi-detached homes with a lot of post-war growth.
That mix is why local enquiries vary so much. A Victorian terrace and a 1970s semi throw up different materials in different places. What doesn't change is the first step. You can't tell by sight whether something contains asbestos. So we arrange a survey or a lab test before any removal, across the MK40 to MK45 districts.
We also cover the surrounding area, including Kempston, Kempston Hardwick, Sandy, Ampthill, Flitwick and Biggleswade.
It depends on the material, not on where you are. HSE puts the decision on the firm doing the work.
We set out the three kinds of work, material by material, in do you need a licensed asbestos contractor?.
What a job costs depends on the material, how much there is and how easy it is to reach. Where you are matters far less.
See prices by job and region in our UK asbestos removal cost report.
Pick a service to see what it involves. Not sure, or need more than one? Use the quote form and tell us what you have.
Tell us what you've got and your postcode, and we'll send a free quote with no obligation. If you go ahead, we book a specialist suited to the job, licensed where the work needs it. Get my free quote
The largest group of homes in the Bedford council area is semi-detached housing, and more were built since 2000, after the ban, than in any earlier period. It is the older stock where asbestos turns up.
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