Asbestos Surveys, Testing & Removal Across Hampshire
Operated by BPS, Asbestos in Homes South Yorkshire provides practical, independent Asbestos Services, Removal, Testing & Sampling for homeowners, buyers, landlords, and local trades across South Yorkshire. Every inspection is carried out by experienced site surveyors, with all bulk material samples analysed by an independent UKAS-accredited laboratory.
On-Site Equipment & Reporting
We arrive with digital floor-planning tablets, controlled wetting agents, and sampling equipment to inspect your property safely and leave every sample point sealed.
UKAS-Accredited Inspection Body
BPS operates as a UKAS-accredited inspection body. Our survey reports are accepted by mortgage lenders, conveyancing solicitors, insurers, and principal contractors.
Independent Laboratory Analysis
Whether we take a single sample of a textured ceiling or twenty samples during a full strip-out survey, every sample is tested at an independent UKAS-accredited laboratory.
Proportionate, Practical Advice
Not all asbestos needs to be ripped out immediately. We assess the material's condition and location, advising plainly when it is safe to encapsulate and manage in place.
How We Inspect, Test, and Remove Asbestos in Domestic & Commercial Properties
Properties built or refurbished before the year 2000 frequently contain asbestos-containing materials (ACMs). From 1960s and 1970s housing estates across Basingstoke, Andover, and Havant where Artex ceilings and thermoplastic floor tiles were standard, to rural outbuildings with corrugated cement roofs, we provide the exact level of inspection or removal your project requires.
Asbestos Management Surveys
A management survey is the standard non-destructive inspection required when buying a pre-2000 house, letting out a residential property, or managing communal areas in blocks of flats. We inspect all accessible rooms, loft spaces, airing cupboards, under-stair cupboards, and exterior rooflines without damaging decorations or structural finishes.
Where suspected materials are spotted—such as soffit boards, cement flue pipes behind older boilers, or insulating board lining a fuse box—we take discrete, dampened bulk samples and seal the sample points immediately. Your report includes clear room-by-room floor plans, laboratory certificates, and a material risk register detailing how to keep the property safe during normal occupation.
Refurbishment & Demolition (R&D) Surveys
If you are knocking down an internal wall, fitting a new kitchen or bathroom, rewiring, or demolishing an extension, a standard visual survey is not enough. Tradespeople frequently disturb hidden asbestos packed inside wall cavities, beneath floorboards, inside boxed-in soil stacks, or behind old fireplace hearths.
An R&D survey uses targeted intrusive access within the specific footprint of your planned building works. Wearing fitted FFP3 respiratory protection and protective coveralls, our surveyor lifts carpets and floorboards, opens service risers, and inspects ceiling voids so your builders can start work without unexpected stops or fibre exposure.
Targeted Asbestos Sampling & UKAS Laboratory Testing
Sometimes you do not need a full-property survey—you simply need to know whether a specific ceiling, floor tile, or garage roof panel contains asbestos before a plasterer, electrician, or roofer arrives. You cannot tell if Artex or vinyl floor adhesive contains asbestos by sight alone.
We visit your property, dampen the material with a surfactant spray to suppress airborne dust, extract a clean cross-sectional sample right down to the base layer, and seal the area with filler or encapsulant tape. Samples are double-bagged and delivered to an independent UKAS-accredited laboratory, giving you a definitive certificate confirming whether asbestos is present and which fibre type is involved.
Non-Licensed Asbestos Removal & Disposal
We safely dismantle and remove non-licensed asbestos-containing materials from homes, gardens, and small commercial premises. This commonly includes corrugated asbestos cement garage and shed roofs, cement rainwater gutters and downpipes, water tanks in lofts, thermoplastic floor tiles, bitumen adhesive, and textured coatings where permitted.
Our operatives lay 1000-gauge polythene drop sheets, use shadow vacuuming with Class H filtration, and unbolt or carefully release sheets whole rather than smashing or cutting them with power tools. Because local household recycling centres across Hampshire restrict or refuse commercial hazardous waste, we double-bag all waste in UN-approved red and clear sacks, transport it to a licensed transfer station, and issue your official hazardous waste consignment note.
Asbestos Re-Inspections & Register Updates
Where known asbestos materials are left in place and managed—such as in communal stairwells of residential blocks, plant rooms, retail units, or tenanted portfolios—their condition must be checked periodically to ensure they have not suffered water damage, abrasion, or accidental impact by contractors.
We revisit your property, visually inspect every item listed on your existing asbestos register, take updated photographs, and revise your material risk assessments. If a panel has deteriorated since the last visit, we give clear recommendations on sealing, encapsulating, or removing it.
Typical Asbestos Materials Found in Domestic Properties
Homeowners and tradespeople most frequently call us out when uncovering suspect materials during decorating, roofing repairs, or pre-purchase homebuyer checks. Below are four of the most common domestic locations we test and manage.
Textured Coatings (Artex)
Applied to ceilings and walls up until 1999. Safe when intact and painted, but must be sampled before sanding, scraping, chasing cables, or boarding over.
Floor Tiles & Black Bitumen
Hard 9-inch or 12-inch thermoplastic vinyl tiles and the black bitumen adhesive underneath, routinely uncovered when lifting old carpets on ground-floor concrete slabs.
Cement Garage & Shed Roofs
Corrugated cement roof sheets, ridge cappings, and rainwater goods on domestic garages and outbuildings that become brittle and moss-covered over decades.
Soffits, Flues & Cupboards
Under-eaves soffit boards, airing cupboard fire linings, integral garage ceilings, and cement flue pipes tucked behind older back boilers and service ducts.
How We Handle Higher-Risk Licensed Materials
Most asbestos found in domestic homes—such as cement roof sheets, guttering, floor tiles, and textured coatings—is classified as non-licensed work, which our trained operatives remove directly. However, higher-risk friable materials such as loose-fill insulation, thermal pipe lagging, sprayed coatings, or extensive asbestos insulating board (AIB) installations legally require removal under full enclosure by an HSE-licensed contractor.
Because BPS is an independent UKAS-accredited inspection body, we have no vested interest in upselling unnecessary removal work. If our survey or laboratory testing identifies a licensed material, we explain the findings calmly, secure the area, and help you arrange competitive remediation through vetted licensed specialists when removal is genuinely required.
Not sure which service you need?
Tell us whether you are buying a property, planning building work, or looking to dispose of a garage roof, and we will give you a clear fixed price over the phone.