Sydney Asbestos Removal, Testing, Disposal Blog

Asbestos inspection is the first step in enjoying an asbestos-free home. If you want to be technical, being aware that your home built or renovated before the 1990s may contain asbestos can also be the first step, but we digress. While it won’t confirm the presence or absence of asbestos, asbestos inspection in Sydney leads…

The legacy of over a century of reliance on asbestos is still felt to this day. A report by the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) estimated that, despite asbestos being banned for more than two decades now, Australia still has 6.2 million tonnes of this dangerous material in homes and buildings. Of the remaining…

Asbestos has a notorious reputation as a silent killer. People living in homes built on this material suddenly feel running out of breath and getting tired quickly, among other things. By the time they’re informed that they likely inhaled asbestos, these symptoms may have given way to more life-threatening conditions – particularly cancer. Asbestos is…

The image above is a non-AI close-up of an asbestos sample containing crocidolite, one of several familiar types of asbestos. If it seems like it resembles barbed wire, that’s exactly how asbestos harms the human body. These fibres can lodge themselves into the tissues and tear them to the point of later manifesting into cancer.…

It’s estimated that around a third of homes across Australia still contain some form of asbestos (referred to asbestos-containing material or ACM). Unlike other  onstruction materials, there are consequences for dismantling ACMs without the proper tools and asbestos removal techniques. Every project an asbestos removal Sydney expert undertakes always has people’s well-being at stake. On…