Asbestos Removal Marrickville

Marrickville has one of the highest concentrations of fibro homes in Sydney's inner suburbs. The suburb's rapid gentrification has driven significant renovation activity, making asbestos identification and removal a critical first step for many homeowners and developers.

Our team regularly works on Marrickville properties removing fibro cladding, bathroom linings, eave boards, and asbestos-containing floor tiles. We understand the specific challenges of working in the suburb's mix of detached homes, semi-detached properties, and converted industrial buildings.

Marrickville mixes interwar brick homes, post-war cottages and a large stock of small factories and warehouses, and each carries asbestos differently. Houses commonly have it in fibro sleepouts and rear additions, in eaves, in garage walls and roofs, and in the sheeting around old laundries. The industrial buildings, many now workshops, studios or showrooms, more often have it in super six roof sheeting, wall cladding, electrical switchboard backing and pipe lagging left over from earlier manufacturing use.

A large share of our Marrickville work is done for owners preparing to renovate or re-let a commercial space. We survey the building first, remove what has to come out before the other trades start, and leave the site ready for fit-out rather than forcing a stop-start job. Where roof sheeting is being replaced, removal is scheduled around the weather so the building is never left open, and access is arranged for tight rear lanes and shared driveways.

If a Marrickville building is a workplace, the duty is wider than removal alone. Under NSW rules, commercial premises built before 31 December 2003 must have an asbestos register, and it needs to be kept current as materials are removed or disturbed. We provide documentation of what was removed and where, so the register and management plan can be updated properly, which matters at lease renewal, on sale, and any time a contractor is asked to work on the building.