Leicestershire, East Midlands
Asbestos removal, surveys, testing and management across Leicester. Licensable work is done by HSE-licensed contractors, as the law requires. You get a free quote before any work begins, with no obligation.
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Leicester
Leicester City Council accepts only cement-bonded asbestos, double-wrapped in plastic, at the Freemen's Common recycling centre only (not Gypsum Close), up to eight sheets per visit.
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 Leicester: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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Leicester is one of the main cities of the East Midlands, and its buildings were shaped by a long textile and hosiery trade. Victorian terraces, old factory and workshop units, inter-war semis and post-war estates are all common here. A large share of them were built before the asbestos ban. Any property built or altered before 2000 may contain asbestos.
We cover Leicester and the wider Leicestershire area, including Loughborough, Hinckley, Wigston, Oadby and Melton Mowbray. We arrange asbestos surveys, testing and removal through the specialist contractors we work with. When something suspect turns up, homeowners, landlords and businesses all take the same safe first step. You can't identify asbestos by sight. It needs a survey or a lab test before anyone disturbs it.
We cover the LE postcode area across Leicester and the surrounding towns.
82.9% of properties in Leicester were built before 2000
That's 120,700 of 145,670. 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?
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. That matters in Leicester because terraced houses are the largest group there, 34% of 145,670 properties, and around 82.9% of the stock predates the 1999 asbestos ban. The next largest group is flats and maisonettes at 28.7%, which puts part of the risk in communal risers and ceiling voids rather than inside any one home. The largest group 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, 20.2% were built before 1900, 20% between 1919 and 1939 and 15.5% since 2000. None of that tells you whether a particular property contains asbestos; only a survey or a laboratory test can.
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The largest group of homes in Leicester is terraced housing, and the largest group by age was built between 1900 and 1939. Terraced housing tends to throw up the same short list of materials, mostly in the ceilings and in whatever was added at the back later.
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