Worried about asbestos on your Essex property? Meyer Southern Ltd is an HSE licensed contractor handling safe asbestos removal in Essex, with fair pricing and no waiting around.
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Most people landing here are stuck on one of three things. A renovation has stopped because something suspicious turned up. A property sale or let is held up by a survey flagging asbestos containing materials. Or a legal duty is sitting on your desk as a landlord, contractor or commercial property owner.
Meyer Southern Ltd sorts all three across Essex. We’re an HSE licensed and fully insured asbestos removal company with three decades in the industry, fixed quotes, same-day site visits and a full in-house service from survey through to certified disposal and final clearance air test.
Call our Essex team on 0239 307 2182, message us on WhatsApp, or fill in the form.
Essex has one of the most varied housing stocks in the UK. From the Edwardian terraces of Romford and Walthamstow to the post-war new towns of Basildon and Harlow, and the sprawling suburban builds that went up across Chelmsford and Brentwood through the 60s and 70s, a huge slice of the county’s homes were built before asbestos was outlawed in 1999.
That means if your property is older than 25 years, asbestos-containing materials could be sitting in your loft insulation, garage roof, artex ceilings, floor tiles, water tanks or pipework. Disturbing them during building work or renovation releases asbestos fibres into the air, and breathing those fibres in is linked to mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. Around 2,500 people die from mesothelioma in the UK every year.
Whether you’re a homeowner planning a refurbishment, a landlord meeting your legal duties, or a seller being asked for an asbestos report by a buyer, our fully licensed team handles the lot. Safe removal, proper paperwork and zero risk to the people in the property.
Essex has deep industrial roots. Dagenham’s Ford plant, the docks at Tilbury, the warehousing and logistics belt running along the A13, and the post-war commercial sites built across the new towns all mean asbestos products are still embedded in thousands of commercial properties across the county.
The Health and Safety Executive estimates around 5,000 people die each year from asbestos-related illness, and a large portion of those exposures trace back to offices, warehouses, schools, and healthcare buildings. For commercial property owners and facility managers, getting asbestos management wrong is both a serious health risk and a clear legal exposure under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
We provide a full range of asbestos services for commercial sites of any size. That covers asbestos surveys, asbestos testing, risk assessments, method statements, safe removal and certified asbestos disposal, all delivered with the least possible disruption to your operations.
Three rules. Don’t touch it. Don’t sand, drill or break it. Keep people and pets out of the room.
Then call us on 0239 307 2182. We’ll walk you through what you’re looking at, arrange asbestos sampling if needed and get a fully licensed team booked in.
Real sites, surveyed, stripped and cleared. Have a look at what the work involves and how a property is left once it is signed off. You can see more of our recent asbestos projects across the UK in the full portfolio.
Whether you own a single home or manage a large commercial portfolio, Meyer Southern provides expert asbestos removal in Essex for a wide range of clients, all with the same commitment to safety, compliance and getting the job done right.
No matter who you are or what your property looks like, Meyer Southern’s expert asbestos removal team in Essex is ready to help. Call us today on 0239 307 2182, enquire online or drop us a message on WhatsApp.
When you choose Meyer Southern, you are not just hiring a removal team, you are getting a full end-to-end service built around your safety, your timeline and your peace of mind.
Here is exactly what happens when you work with us:
Every project starts with a site visit. Our surveyors carry out either a management survey, a refurbishment survey, or a demolition survey depending on what you need, and where there's any doubt about a material we take samples to a UKAS-accredited laboratory for asbestos testing. From the results we produce a written risk assessment and method statement, so everyone on site knows exactly what's being removed, how and in what order.
On removal day, the crew arrives with full PPE, RPE and whatever specialist equipment the job demands. Floors and fixtures get protected. Where the work is licensed we build airtight enclosures with negative pressure units and airlocks, and every cut, lift or strip uses controlled wet techniques to keep asbestos fibres out of the air.
All asbestos waste leaves site double bagged in heavy-duty labelled polythene sacks. It travels under our waste carrier licence to approved hazardous waste management facilities for proper disposal. You receive the full hazardous waste consignment note as your proof of compliance, which matters for landlords, commercial property owners and anyone passing the property on at a later date.
We finish with a full HEPA vacuum and wet-wipe clean of the work area. On licensed jobs an independent UKAS-accredited laboratory carries out the four-stage clearance air test and only once that's passed is the area certified safe to reoccupy. No corner-cutting, no skipping the final test.
Time is the one thing that never works in your favour with asbestos. Damaged materials get worse. Building work gets pushed back. Legal duties stack up. A quote takes ten minutes to arrange and saves you weeks of stress later.
Our fully licensed team moves fast across Essex. Site visits booked in within days. Honest quotes, no surprise add-onsnand a five-star Checkatrade rating that’s been earned one job at a time. Everything from the first asbestos survey through to the final clearance test is handled in-house, so there’s no chasing around between contractors.
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Fill out the form and our HSE licensed Essex asbestos specialists will be in touch.
Yes. Meyer Southern Ltd holds an HSE asbestos licence, Licence No. 262606126. That means we can carry out licensed asbestos removal in Essex, such as asbestos insulating board (AIB), pipe lagging and sprayed coatings, as well as notifiable and non-licensed work. Every licensed job is notified to the HSE 14 days before it starts.
For you, it means one contractor from the first asbestos survey to the final clearance, so you will not need to find a second company if the material turns out to be higher risk than expected.
The risk lives in the fibres. As long as asbestos-containing materials sit undisturbed and in good condition, they’re relatively safe, but the moment something cracks, breaks, or wears down, microscopic asbestos fibres go airborne. Breathe them in and they embed in the lungs permanently. Years later, sometimes decades, they cause mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer.
The Health and Safety Executive’s position is straightforward: no exposure level is considered safe. That’s why higher-risk asbestos work is illegal for unlicensed contractors, and why DIY removal of anything beyond minor non-licensed material is a bad idea. If you’ve found damaged asbestos materials on your own property, call us before you do anything else.
For commercial properties and non-domestic buildings, the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 place a legal duty to manage asbestos on whoever owns or controls the building. That includes commercial sites, industrial premises, public buildings, and the shared parts of residential blocks like stairwells and basements. You need to know where asbestos is, what condition it’s in, and have a plan to manage it.
For domestic homeowners the rules are softer but the health risk isn’t. Landlords have additional responsibilities to tenants. We’ll explain exactly what applies to your situation on the first call and recommend the right asbestos services to keep you compliant.
Step one is the survey, and where needed, asbestos sampling sent to a UKAS-accredited laboratory.
Step two is paperwork: written risk assessment, method statement and where the work falls under licensed asbestos removal, the mandatory 14-day ASB5 notification to the HSE.
Step three is the removal itself. Trained operatives, full PPE, sealed enclosures with negative pressure where required, and wet techniques throughout to stop fibre release. Step four is disposal: every piece is double-bagged, labelled and transported under our waste carrier licence to approved hazardous waste sites. Step five is the clean-down and, on licensed jobs, the four-stage clearance air test.
Lower-risk work can run as notifiable non-licensed removal or non-licensed removal, but the safety standards we apply are the same regardless.
In most cases, yes. Vacating the whole property is rarely necessary. We isolate the work zone with sealed enclosures, protect everything else with coverings, and use negative pressure units to make sure nothing migrates beyond the controlled area. Your project lead keeps you in the loop throughout so you know exactly when crews are on site, what room is sealed, and when it’s clear.
For genuine emergencies, accidentally damaged materials, broken garage roofs after storms, sudden water damage to artex ceilings, we run a 24-hour response service across Essex.
Almost always. The survey is what tells us, and you, exactly what’s there. Our surveyors hold the BOHS P402 qualification, which is the standard for asbestos surveying in the UK. They produce a full written asbestos report after every survey, which doubles as the foundation of your ongoing asbestos management plan.
Three survey types cover most situations: a management survey for buildings staying in use, a refurbishment survey before any building work, and a demolition survey before knocking anything down.
A surveyor takes a small material sample from anything suspected of being asbestos containing material, double bags it, and sends it to a UKAS-accredited laboratory. The lab confirms whether asbestos is present, which type it is, and the condition it’s in. Results come back fast and feed directly into the risk assessment and removal plan.
We test everything that needs testing: asbestos cement sheets, floor tiles, insulating boards, materials around heating systems and water tanks, plaster, putties, textured coatings and more.
A few factors shape the price: the type of hazardous material on site, the size of the property, how much asbestos containing material needs handling, and whether the removal and disposal job runs as licensed or non-licensed work. Access conditions and waste management solutions for the site can also possibly affect the final figure.
We don’t hand out vague numbers over the phone. Every Essex job gets assessed properly so the quote you receive is accurate, fixed, and competitive. Our disposal service runs in full compliance with UK regulations, and we never cut corners on safety to bring the price down. You’re getting professional work at a fair rate, with no hidden extras on invoice day.
Call 0239 307 2182 or fill in the enquiry form for a no-obligation quote.
We do asbestos removal for the whole county. Our local asbestos removal service covers: Chelmsford, Colchester, Basildon, Southend-on-Sea, Romford, Brentwood, Harlow, Clacton, Braintree, Maldon, Witham, Saffron Walden, plus every village and hamlet in between. We work on domestic garages, residential properties of every size, commercial buildings, warehouses, industrial sites, schools, healthcare facilities, retail units, and demolition jobs.
Regular client types include private homeowners, landlords with portfolios, main contractors, facilities managers, NHS estates teams and Essex councils. Whether the job is asbestos cement off a single garage roof or a full commercial asbestos removal across a multi-storey site, get in touch and we’ll come straight back to you.
