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Asbestos removal equipment – used only by trained professionals

Sometimes at TopAsbestosRemoval.co.uk we get enquiries from people looking to shortcut the asbestos removal process. In a way, that’s something I sympathise with. Correct and safe asbestos treatment isn’t always something that can come cheaply – and naturally so, given the time and great care and attention that asbestos removal involves. Moreover, asbestos removal services by law can only be conducted by trained professionals who know exactly what measures to take in order to remove the great risks of asbestos exposure.

Even in our current day and age, many people are not fully cognisant of how carefully asbestos must be treated. And so we receive calls from members of the public interested in simply hiring asbestos removal equipment.

Unfortunately, that’s now how it works. The asbestos removal process cannot be shortcutted by DIY solutions – and it’s highly risky even to consider doing this. Anybody in need of asbestos removal, asbestos treatment or surveys, as we always advise our customers, needs to leave it to the professionals.

Start with TopAsbestosRemoval.co.uk. We’re on 08000 82 80 85, and calls are free from UK landlines.

August 27, 2010 at 1:35 pm | Asbestos Infomation, Asbestos Removal, asbestos disposal | No comment

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Asbestos demolition – taking the right precautions

We’re often asked about following the right precautions for asbestos treatment on building sites. Customers often ask us about asbestos demolition – what to do when a building needs to be demolished but may contain asbestos.

In fact, in almost all demolition cases it’s essential to make sure that a proper assessment has been done by a highly trained asbestos removal and treatment professional.

TopAsbestosRemoval.co.uk has a fleet of asbestos removal professionals highly trained and experienced in guiding safe demolition, making sure that all precautions have been taken for proper consideration of asbestos related risks.

Call our expert team today before going any further with your demolition project. 08000 82 80 85 – FREE to UK landlines.

August 23, 2010 at 2:20 pm | Asbestos Infomation, Asbestos Removal, asbestos disposal | No comment

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A customer looking for asbestos removal in Middlesex lightens the mood…

When you work for a long time in a serious industry like asbestos removal, it’s true that you can often get sucked into coming to work with a long face and gloomy demeanour, and even end up taking that dark cloud home with you to your poor wife and kids. I’ve made that mistake myself many a time, and thankfully I have a wonderful and tolerant wife (and a good lawyer – ha!).

Not that it was ever great, but my dinner party chat now pretty well sucks: your average Joe isn’t all that enlivened by a half hour lecture about the ever present dangers of asbestos tiling, and the menace of ubiquitous asbestos usage in British schools.

So I have to say it is a DELIGHT to take calls from customers that can help us see the lighter side of life again. This morning, I raise my hat to a customer looking for asbestos removal in Middlesex. He told a joke. I mean, it’s a pretty lame joke. But a joke all the same it was. And I leave you with it now.

Question: Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Answer: Because he was a fun guy (fun-gi!!)

August 18, 2010 at 11:54 am | Asbestos Removal, asbestos disposal | No comment

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Asbestos removal Swansea customer sends in shocking news article

Incredible article sent in to us this morning on the Asbestos export trade from Canada.

Classic example of two faced governments serving the interests of their own people while simultaneously exploiting the weak and powerless overseas. That’s a huge part of the history of the expansion of capitalism of course, but it’s still hard to believe the facts when you read the details of what our governments perpetrate as our “elected representatives”.

An upset customer for asbestos removal in Swansea sent this article in about Canada’s appalling asbestos export trade.

Here’s how it works:
1. Canada prohibits the use of asbestos in most areas of industry and life in Canada, due to the inimical effects of asbestos exposure

2. But Canada is one of the few countries rich in the raw materials required for asbestos production. Shame to miss out on this lucrative market – especially if you can shift the consequences of asbestos use off your own doorstep and out of sight…

3. 3rd world countries continue to produce and use asbestos without regulation. So Canada ships off the asbestos raw materials to states like India, where they are worked on by penniless workers.

I can already hear the “but it’s better at least to give those workers jobs of some sort, than none at all” argument come back here. But come on Canada – doesn’t something feel wrong about what’s going on here?

August 16, 2010 at 3:31 pm | Asbestos Infomation, Asbestos Removal | No comment

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Even the dreaming spires of Oxford have an asbestos removal problem…

Glazing at images like this, it’s startling to think that hidden in the heart of all that fine stonework and history, is an often hidden ticking time bomb of asbestos fittings.

Although a town that began to take off centuries before the popular emergence of asbestos usage in buildings, such was the popularity of asbestos in early and mid twentieth century Britain that even Oxford now possesses many nooks and crannies hidden with asbestos flooring, ceilings, roofing – you name it.

Both the famous colleges of the “gown” and the rest of the town now commonly stand in need of asbestos removal in Oxford. Another example of the great scurge of the stuff across Britain.

August 16, 2010 at 9:37 am | Asbestos Removal, asbestos removal | No comment

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Asbestos Shifnal

Further to our recent video postings of 1950s promotional videos of the many varied splenders of asbestos – a generous customer in Shifnal has just sent through this one. It seems to be another part of the earlier 1950s documentary that we showed a few days ago.

The widescale use of asbestos at the time is really quite remarkable, and thoughts of asbestos at that time were clearly rather far away…

August 15, 2010 at 4:47 pm | Asbestos Removal, asbestos disposal | No comment

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