Asbestos guttering removal is a common job on Southampton’s interwar and post-war housing, where deep grey cement guttering, often matched with downpipes and hoppers, went up decades ago. Most of it is cracked at the joints and overdue replacing.
Asbestos downpipe removal follows the same method: sections come off unbolted and lowered whole, sludge gets scooped and bagged as licensed waste, and brackets are stripped ready for a new uPVC or aluminium system, fitted by your roofer or by us.
Gutters, downpipes, hoppers and soffits also
All ground and gulley debris collected too
Every roofline job runs the same way, starting with a survey at gutter height and ending with the line ready for your installer that same day.
We inspect the full run from a ladder or platform, confirm the materials, check the joints and brackets, and take a look at the fascia and soffits while we’re up there anyway.
Removal, sludge clearance, disposal and documentation all sit inside one written price within 48 hours, with fascia and soffit removal quoted alongside if you want it included.
Sections are unbolted and lowered down intact, never levered off or dropped, with sludge bagged while it’s still wet and at height, rather than shovelled off the lawn afterwards.
Fixings are cleared away, the line gets brushed down, and waste is consigned with your note issued, so the new system can go straight up the same day if your installer’s already booked.
We carry £10m public and employer liability insurance as standard on every guttering and downpipe removal job.
Every operative is UKATA-trained. We do not subcontract or use agency labour on any job.
We do not revise a price once confirmed in writing. No estimates, no additional charges on completion.
Every customer receives a consignment note on completion as legal proof of correct disposal.
FAQS
Age, weight and profile all give strong clues, particularly anything pre-1980s in thick grey cement with cast-style hoppers. Confirming it properly needs a sample, which we can take during the survey without disturbing the rest of the run.
They can, provided they’re sound. Asbestos cement in good condition is genuinely manageable in place. In practice though, most are decades past being watertight, and a replacement project is exactly the moment they should come off properly, rather than get smashed down by a general roofer.
After decades sitting inside an asbestos cement gutter, yes, it’s treated as contaminated and consigned along with the cement itself. Tipping it into the garden or a green bin is the classic mistake, and it’s exactly why DIY gutter removal tends to go wrong.
We can, either coordinating replacement through our re-roofing side or handing straight over to your own installer the same day, with brackets stripped and the line left clean either way, so there’s no gap in weather protection. Just tell us which you’d prefer at survey.
Usually not, for a standard two-storey domestic run, towers and platforms handle most cases just fine. Where access genuinely calls for scaffold, that’s stated upfront and included in the fixed price rather than turning up later as a surprise.
Yes. Fragments sitting in borders, on flat roofs or around gulleys all get collected and bagged as part of the same job. Just point them out at survey and they’ll be folded into the price.
Yes, asbestos soffit removal usually goes alongside fascias at the same price, and honestly they usually should. The boards behind cement gutters are often the same material, and clearing the entire roofline using one access setup works out cheaper than paying for two separate visits. Mention it at survey and you’ll get one combined figure.
Most two-storey domestic runs clear within a morning, sludge included, timed so your installer can hang the new system that same afternoon. The programme is set out in your quote alongside the price.
Every district, from the Edwardian terraces of Portswood to the interwar semis of Shirley and Bassett, and everything in between. The whole city, right out to its edges.
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Send us your postcode and a photo of what you’ve found. We’ll arrange a survey within the week and confirm a fixed written quote inside 48 hours.
