Asbestos

[OldEnglishSheepDog]

I have been royally screwed by the people who sold me our house. My plumber has just uncovered asbestos. I am ready to weep.

Does anyone know, is this something that should have been declared? We had a homebuyers survey but the loft was full of stuff and he would not have been able to get to the pipe. I think that they were deliberately hiding it. Do I have any come back at all?

I've never known a centre not to charge, so yours is a good one!

Well a very nice chap has been round, taken a sample and verbally confirmed what we expected. I have received some quotes for removal. I was told to budget about £600 - does that sound about right?

UPDATE: if anyone is interested. Man came round took a sample. Emailed me the analysis the next day which said it was not in fact asbestos. Luckily I rang up to check whether it was definitely safe and they admitted that they had sent the wrong analysis through! Just one of those things but I am very glad I checked.

I now have two (fully-certified) chaps from a different company pulling apart my walls in order to get this excessively long pipe out of my house.... They seem to know what they are doing....

Great, thanks for the update

Sounds like you have this sorted, great news!

Just a note to say that I've removed cemented asbestos myself. It's a job you need to prepare for with military precision - you need the right hazard suit, the right mask, (both of which get binned in a certain way at the end), washable boots, and the right disposal bags. You also need to talk through exactly what you're doing with the person helping you, planning almost every movement you make to ensure that you don't break pieces unnecessarily. But it was actually surprisingly straightforward and easy to do: we got rid of a shed roof in a morning and it saved £££.