It might be worth discussing this with your neighbour because it is their house garden as much as yours that would be at risk if they use a contractor who isn t competent.
Neighbours asbestos roof.
Close all windows and doors of your home and cover air vents to prevent asbestos fibres from entering the building.
My neighbour two doors down has being doing some diy and for a few weeks now the pieces of his broken up asbestos garage roof have been strewn across his front garden.
I m unsure of what to do.
Homes with asbestos roofs are also likely to be more expensive to insure.
Contact the council who will send someone out to risk asses the asbestos roof it could well be the safe form of asbestos but better not to take the risk as it will have to be removed by.
Inform your neighbours of the proposed work and advise them to close doors and windows while the work is being undertaken.
You may live near an industrial area where there are many hectares of asbestos roofs and there may be other asbestos products that we do not know about that is close by.
Just because they are a builder doesn t mean they are competent to deal with asbestos.
The pragmatic answer to this question is simply this.
It s been ratting around in the current storm.
We ve heard from some property owners that asbestos roofing makes a property more difficult to sell.
Your neighbour s may have asbestos roofs.