Tyne and Wear, North East
Homeowner, landlord or business in Sunderland? We cover asbestos surveys, testing, removal, disposal and management. HSE-licensed contractors handle licensable work, and every enquiry starts with a free quote.
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Sunderland
Sunderland City Council does not take asbestos: it is on the list of items not accepted at the household waste recycling centre, and the bulky waste service will not collect 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 Sunderland: removal, collection and disposal. Get a free quote
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Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, grew around shipbuilding, coal and glassmaking. Much of its housing and industrial property dates from before asbestos was banned. Victorian terraces, old colliery housing, inter-war and post-war estates and older industrial units are all common here. Any of them built or refurbished before 2000 can contain asbestos.
Across Sunderland and the North East around it, we arrange asbestos removal, surveys and testing. The specialist contractors we work with also reach Washington, South Shields, Houghton-le-Spring, Seaham and nearby Newcastle. Updating an older home, managing the shared parts of a block of flats or fitting out a commercial unit? Begin by treating anything suspect with care. Asbestos can't be spotted by eye, so anything doubtful must be surveyed or lab-tested before work starts.
We cover the SR postcode area across Sunderland and the surrounding towns.
86.6% of properties in the Sunderland council area were built before 2000
That's 117,320 of 135,520. 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?
The biggest group of homes in the Sunderland council area was built between 1945 and 1964. This is the period when asbestos use in British building was climbing steeply, so original materials are more likely to be present rather than added later. Roughly 86.6% of the 135,520 properties here predate the 1999 ban, and the largest group by type is semi-detached houses at 33.5%. 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 26.6%, where party walls and shared roof spaces mean neighbouring work can disturb material next door. By period, 14.2% were built before 1900, 13.9% between 1919 and 1939 and 13.2% 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 the Sunderland council area is semi-detached housing, and the largest group by age was built between 1945 and 1964. Semi-detached houses built before the ban very often came with a garage or an outbuilding, and that is usually where the cement sheeting is.
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