Asbestos Removal North Shore
Licensed asbestos removal, testing and partial demolition across Sydney’s North Shore: Killara, Gordon and Pymble, Chatswood, Willoughby, Northbridge and Castlecrag, Lane Cove and Hunters Hill, the lower North Shore to Mosman, and Ryde. SafeWork NSW licence AD213403, Class A and Class B, our own crew on every job.
Call 0452 224 398 for a free on-site quote.
Old houses, heritage streets and asbestos in the bits you cannot see
The North Shore’s houses are older and better kept than most of Sydney, which is exactly why the asbestos is easy to miss. Federation and inter-war brick homes from Killara to Chatswood to Hunters Hill were built before asbestos cement was common, but the sunrooms, garages, laundries and eaves added to them in the 1950s and 60s were not. Willoughby, Lane Cove, Artarmon and Ryde have whole streets of post-war weatherboard and fibro. And the ceilings: fibro ceilings and gable-end linings on houses that have been painted a dozen times and look like plaster.
Heritage conservation areas across Ku-ring-gai, Willoughby and Hunters Hill mean most work here is renovation and partial demolition rather than knockdown, so the asbestos has to come out of a house that people are keeping. The steep bush blocks of Castlecrag, Northbridge, Castle Cove and Lane Cove add tight access and long carries. On the Ryde side, knockdown-rebuilds are common and the whole house goes.
Licensed asbestos removal from Killara to Mosman and Ryde. SafeWork NSW licence AD213403, Class A and B.
Ceilings, eaves, sunrooms and partial demolition
Ceiling and eave removal
The North Shore's signature job: a damaged fibro ceiling or gable end in a house that is otherwise being kept, removed with the room sealed and floors protected so the plasterer can follow. Even under 10 m², most owners here want a clearance certificate, and we arrange it through an independent assessor.
Sunrooms, garages and additions
The 1950s and 60s additions on older houses: sunroom walls, ceilings and external sheeting, garage linings and roofs. Removed whole where possible, wrapped and sealed on site, frames sealed with PVA. Friable material is handled under Class A conditions with a sealed enclosure.
Partial demolition in heritage areas
Taking off a rear addition, a garage or a sunroom while the original house stays, with the asbestos removed and cleared first and the demolition done by the same crew. On the Ryde side, full knockdown-rebuild demolition works the same way, with one clearance certificate.
Testing and pre-purchase inspection
Painted fibro and plaster look the same. A sample to a NATA-accredited laboratory settles it before a renovation or a purchase, usually within days. How testing works, and what a pre-purchase inspection covers on a house with sixty years of additions.
Air monitoring and clearance
Air monitoring during friable work, and a clearance certificate from an independent licensed assessor at the end of every licensed removal. Waste is transported to an EPA-licensed facility and the documentation is supplied to you, ready for the plasterer, builder or a future sale.
Strata and commercial registers
Strata buildings and commercial premises built before 2004 are required to keep an asbestos register and management plan. We survey, label and document, and for older North Shore blocks with several generations of additions that survey is usually overdue, and the plan is what the strata manager needs.
Where we find it in North Shore homes
The usual finds on North Shore jobs:
- Fibro ceilings and gable-end linings, often painted over
- Garage ceilings, walls and roofs
- Sunrooms and enclosed verandahs added in the 1950s and 60s
- Eaves on houses of every era
- Bathroom, kitchen and laundry linings behind tiles
- Fences and old sheds at the bottom of steep blocks
Where we work on the North Shore
Ku-ring-gai south of Turramurra, Willoughby, Lane Cove, Hunters Hill, North Sydney, Mosman and Ryde. Lindfield and East Lindfield have their own page; Wahroonga, Turramurra, St Ives and the Hornsby Shire are on our Hornsby Shire page.
Killara to Roseville
Killara, East Killara, Gordon, Pymble, West Pymble, Roseville and Roseville Chase.
Chatswood and Willoughby
Chatswood, Chatswood West, Willoughby, North Willoughby, Artarmon, Naremburn, Castlecrag, Castle Cove, Middle Cove and Northbridge.
Lane Cove and Hunters Hill
Lane Cove, Lane Cove West, Lane Cove North, Greenwich, Longueville, Riverview, Linley Point, Hunters Hill, Woolwich and Gladesville.
The lower North Shore
St Leonards, Crows Nest, Wollstonecraft, Waverton, North Sydney, Cammeray, Neutral Bay, Cremorne, Mosman and Kirribilli.
Ryde
Ryde, North Ryde, West Ryde, East Ryde, Denistone, Eastwood, Epping, Marsfield, Macquarie Park, Meadowbank, Putney and Tennyson Point.
How a North Shore job runs
- Sample first if it is painted. Painted fibro and plaster are easy to confuse. A NATA lab result before anyone quotes.
- Fixed written quote for removal, disposal and the clearance certificate, timed to your builder or plasterer.
- SafeWork NSW notice lodged by us five days ahead of licensed removal work.
- Set-up. Room or area sealed, floors and stairs protected, PPE and a decontamination point, and a negative-air enclosure for friable material. On steep blocks, the carry route to the truck is planned before the first sheet comes down.
- Removal. Sheets wetted, fixings removed, kept whole, wrapped in heavy plastic, sealed and labelled. Frames and ceiling joists sealed with PVA.
- Disposal at an EPA-licensed facility, waste paperwork to you.
- Clearance certificate from an independent licensed assessor, then the plasterer, builder or demolition crew takes over.
Recent jobs on the North Shore
Lane Cove: a whole sunroom
Asbestos removed from the walls, ceiling and external structure of a sunroom on a Lane Cove home, ahead of the owners’ renovation. Project write-up.
Northbridge: ceilings and gable ends
Fibro ceilings and gable-end linings removed from a Northbridge house, from the first assessment through to the final clearance. Project write-up.
Willoughby: a damaged ceiling, under 10 m²
A small ceiling removal so the owners could re-clad it. Under the 10 m² threshold, but the owners wanted a clearance certificate, so a third-party hygienist certified it. Project write-up.
Photos: HRC asbestos removal jobs. Sunroom, ceiling and gable-end strip-outs of the kind described here.
North Shore asbestos questions
What North Shore owners ask us most. For anything else, call 0452 224 398.
A single room ceiling is one of the smaller jobs we do and is usually a fixed price from photos and measurements. Multiple rooms, gable ends or a sunroom push it up. Our cost guide explains what moves the price.
You do not, by looking. Painted fibro and plaster are indistinguishable. We take a sample and the NATA lab tells you for certain, usually within days.
Not by law, but most North Shore owners want one for their own records and for a future sale, and we arrange it through an independent assessor on request.
Not the asbestos removal itself, which needs no council approval. Any demolition or external change does, so we time the removal to your approved works.
Yes. Castlecrag, Northbridge and Lane Cove blocks are regular work. We plan the carry route and the truck position before we start.
Lindfield and East Lindfield have their own page, and St Ives, Turramurra and Wahroonga are covered from our Hornsby Shire page. Same crew, same process.
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