Asbestos Removal in Worthing

Around 89.2% of the housing in Worthing predates the 1999 asbestos ban, which is high, so age alone puts most local property in the bracket worth checking. 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. The largest group by type is flats and maisonettes, 36.4% of 52,170 properties. In flats and maisonettes the risk is often in the parts nobody owns individually: service risers, ducting, communal cupboards and ceiling voids, where insulating board and lagging were widely used. Inside a flat, textured coatings and floor tiles are the common ones. The next largest group is terraced houses at 21.8%, where party walls and shared roof spaces mean neighbouring work can disturb material next door. One and two bedroom homes make up 50.4% of the stock, so a lot of it is flats and small conversions. By period, 8.1% were built before 1900, 25.3% between 1919 and 1939 and 10.6% since 2000. None of that tells you whether a particular property contains asbestos; only a survey or a laboratory test can.

We cover the whole of Worthing, across the BN11, BN12, BN13 and BN14 postcode districts.