Asbestos Removal in Coventry

In Coventry, terraced houses are the largest group by some way: 43.5% of the 154,040 domestic properties on the Council Tax list, which is well above the national pattern. In terraced housing the materials that turn up most often are textured coatings on ceilings and walls, insulating board around fireplaces, airing cupboards and behind boilers, and asbestos cement in outbuildings, garage roofs, gutters and downpipes. The next largest group is flats and maisonettes at 23.3%, which puts part of the risk in communal risers and ceiling voids rather than inside any one home. Around 79.6% of all property there predates the 1999 ban, and the largest group by age was built between 1900 and 1939. Property from this period was built before asbestos use peaked, so where asbestos is present it usually arrived with later work: post-war repairs, added textured coatings, new outbuilding roofs and heating upgrades. That later work is common enough in housing of this age that it still needs checking before anything is disturbed. By period, 4.1% were built before 1900, 26.6% between 1919 and 1939 and 18.8% since 2000. None of that tells you whether a particular property contains asbestos; only a survey or a laboratory test can.