Asbestos Removal in Essex

Every HSE licensed asbestos contractor covering Essex

Essex holds more asbestos licences than any other county in Britain. There are 63 on the register with an Essex address, out of 362 in the whole United Kingdom. That is roughly one in every six.

The register itself lists a few more Essex rows than that, because a firm renewing its licence appears twice for a while, on the old one and the new one. We count companies holding a current licence, so each firm appears here once and lapsed licences drop off the day they expire.

Read the Type column before you ring anybody. 58 of these are standard licences, which is the one that covers removal work. A handful of the licences here are scaffolding or maintenance rather than standard. Those are perfectly real, but they do not mean what most people assume.

• A scaffolding licence is not a licence to remove asbestos. It covers putting up and taking down scaffold around licensed asbestos work. The scaffolding firms in the table above cannot quote you for removal, so ringing them for a removal price wastes your afternoon and theirs.
• A maintenance licence is narrower than a standard one. It covers short duration maintenance work rather than full removal. Ask the company directly whether your job falls inside it.

Contractors travel. A licensed firm in Basildon will normally work across the county and into east London without any difficulty, so do not rule out a company because it is thirty miles up the road. The county town has its own list: see asbestos removal in Chelmsford.

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Four things on the Essex list worth knowing

• Keep an eye on expiry dates. None of the Essex firms hold a licence expiring in the next 7 weeks. Licences get renewed all the time and an expiry date does not mean anything is wrong, so if you are booking work for the autumn it is a fair thing to ask about.
• Basildon is the centre of it. Most are clustered there: fifteen in Basildon and another seven in Wickford. If you are anywhere in south Essex you have more licensed firms within half an hour of you than most counties have in total.
• North Essex is thinner than the number suggests. Colchester has two, Braintree one, Witham two. The county total is real but it is heavily weighted to the Thames side of the county, so if you are up towards Suffolk expect a longer drive or a wider search.
• Several are London firms with an Essex registered address. Companies in Romford, Rainham, Upminster and Woodford Green appear here because that is where the licence is registered. They work across east London as much as Essex, which is useful to know if you are on the border.