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Hi All,
Our house has a renovated bathroom (approx 1960's-70's) and we want to get a sample of the board used for the walls tested to make sure it's not asbestos before we demolish.
Does anyone know of a cheap place I can get the cement sheet tested in Melbourne? How much?
Jackiew said in another post that they got a $20 test done, but didn't say where. Any ideas?
Your help is appreciated.
http://www.nata.asn.au/cgi-bin/natad...ildings%2F&d=1
This should point you in the right direction.
I had an old loo out the back that was asbestos. I rang up the nearest licenced asbestos removalist and they came out, identified it and gave me a quote to remove it. I wont touch the stuff!
$100 later and the problem is gone!
I wouldn't go breaking bits off to take in to get tested. Get someone out!
i used www.noel-arnold.com.au - in box hill
if it is grey AC cement sheet or looks like it, long odds is: it is Asbestos. It was used in cement sheet until the very early 80's - costs for removal are by the metre - a job I just awarded and had done cost $2400. (Ceiling panels over a large residential swimming pool....very straightforward job that took 4 men 40 mins - my client had to supply: Pool cover and construct timber platforms for the workers to put their ladders on......personally I thought it a rip-off)
Do you absolutely need to remove it in order to do your reno? It can be successfully covered etc. without incident - it is when one starts fiddling with it, that the fibres get released.