Close all windows and doors of your home and cover air vents to prevent asbestos fibres from entering the building.
Neighbours asbestos roof.
We ve heard from some property owners that asbestos roofing makes a property more difficult to sell.
The question to your neighbour should be whether the contractor is competent.
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.
The more weathered your roof gets the more risk there is of deterioration which might expose your family and neighbours to harmful asbestos fibres.
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.
It s been ratting around in the current storm.
We re all aware of the health risks here.
Homes with asbestos roofs are also likely to be more expensive to insure.
Your neighbour s may have asbestos roofs.
Inform your neighbours of the proposed work and advise them to close doors and windows while the work is being undertaken.
Just because they are a builder doesn t mean they are competent to deal with asbestos.
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.