Essex - P402R Asbestos Survey - 020 3390 0301

The office that covers this area is: London

The towns & cities that are covered within this county are:
Barking, Basildon, Benfleet, Billericay, Braintree, Brentwood, Brightlingsea, Buckhurst Hill, Burnham on Crouch, Canvey Island, Chelmsford, Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, Clacton on Sea, Coggeshall, Colchester, Corringham, Dagenham, Danbury, Dunmow, Earls Colne, Epping, Felsted, Frinton-on-Sea, Grays, Hadleigh, Halstead, Harlow, Harwich, Hockley, Hornchurch, Ilford, Ingatestone, Kelvedon Hatch, Leigh-on-Sea, Loughton, Maldon, Manningtree, Ongar, Pelgrims Hatch, Purfleet, Rainham, Rayleigh, Rochford, Romford, Saffron Walden, Sible Hedingham, South Benfleet, South Ockendon, South Woodham Ferrers, Southend on Sea, Southminster, Stanford Le Hope, Stansted Mountfitchet, Thaxted, Tilbury, Upminster, Waltham Abbey, Walton on the Naze, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wickford, Witham, Wivenhoe, Woodford Green, Writtle,

Phone Number: 020 3390 0301 Email: essex@e2consultants.co.uk

Asbestos_Survey is sometimes referred to as Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Risk Assessment, Fire Safety.

Where Can Asbestos Be Found?

• Toilet cisterns can contain asbestos-reinforced resin materials
• Insulation in floor and wall cavities, lofts and insulating boards
• Artex or similar decorative / textures coating on ceilings and sometimes walls
• External / internal wall panelling particularly around windows
• Water tanks can be made from asbestos cement and is often found in pre-1980 houses
• Flash Guards on fuse wires and panelling behind fuse boxes
• Sprayed fire insulation
• Floor tiles, mastics and sealants
• Pipe works, boilers, ducts and heat exchanges

What's Involved In An Asbestos Survey?

For an asbestos management survey, formally a type 2 survey, one of our surveyors will take small samples of suspected asbestos from a property to be sent to a lab for testing. They will also note each room in the building and the materials used in its construction - any area unaccessible will be marked as such to indicate the possibility of asbestos.

A refurbishment/demolition survey, formally a type 3 survey, will be, as the name suggests, more destruction than a management survey. This will involve a surveyor accessing areas where future work is to be undertaken by knocking through a wall or drilling into floor slabs. This is to ensure that when the property is destroyed or altered that the next team in won't risk tampering with asbestos themselves that could be damaging to their health.

Surveyor Qualifications

All of our surveyors are holders of the BOHS (British Occupational Hygiene Society) P402 qualification - the statutory proficiency certificate in 'Building Surveys and Bulk Sampling for Asbestos'. E2 Consultants have a professional and friendly approach and our surveying team are here to help. We will work with you to create a cost-effective method and approach to your situation, to speak to one our consultants call now on 0800 043 8100 or send your query to Asbestos-Survey@e2consultants.co.uk.

We're qualified in asbestos refurbishment, management and demolition surveys for industrial, commercial and domestic buildings covering Essex. Where required can also undertake a Commercial EPC in a cost-effective package.

What Is Asbestos?

The trade and use of asbestos has been restricted or banned in many jurisdictions in Essex. Asbestos is basically a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals used for their desirable physical properties. Though mined from rock, when broken down it breaks apart into tiny fibres.

There are 6 types of asbestos - but only 3 have been widely used in building materials: white (Chrysotile), brown (Amosite) and blue (Crocidolite). Strictly speaking blue is the most dangerous, followed by brown and then white.

Asbestos Legislation

A risk assessment must be undertaking by employeers for employees when work is likely to involve asbestos. This should include a plan of how the work is to be carried out as well as outline, and provide solutions to, any asbestos-related issues that may occur. All information must be kept up-to-date and available to anyone who may work or disturb the asbestos containing material (ACM).

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (Reg 4) places an explicit duty on those responsible (the duty holder) for any commercial premises to identify and manage asbestos containing materials that may be present in the property.