Asbestos Testing

While our flagship product, which is fully compliant with the recently introduced asbestos legislation, is the Non-Invasive Visual Inspection, there are occasions when an invasive asbestos test is required.

ATS recognises that historically asbestos testing has been an incredibly expensive and onerous task and as such most Landlords and Property Managers would shy away from asbestos testing unless it was absolutely vital.

Asbestos is a naturally occurring and incredibly versatile substance. It has a number of really useful properties such as resistance to electricity, fire and heat. It also has excellent average tensile strength, impressive sound absorption qualities and is relatively inexpensive.

As you will likely be aware, legislation came into effect earlier this year which relates specifically to Landlords and their requirement to have in place an asbestos management plan. Since ...

Is your home built before the year 2000? If so, did you know that you could just about bet your house that it will have asbestos containing material (ACM) used as part of the construction? If ...