Asbestos Removal Olympus — compare quotes from registered asbestos contractors covering the area. Roof sheeting, ceilings, gutters, cladding, testing and disposal.
Olympus houses are generally too new for asbestos, so the finds here tend to be in the ground rather than on a roof — broken sheeting dumped or buried on a stand, turned up when someone clears it to build.
Your street, what the material is and roughly how much of it there is.
Get Olympus QuotesWhere Olympus Finds Come From
| Where | Era | Usual finding |
|---|---|---|
| Established houses | Largely 1990s onwards | Usually none — tile, steel, modern fibre cement |
| Vacant and recently cleared stands | Debris of any age | Dumped or buried sheet fragments, pipe offcuts |
| Open ground and verges at the edges | Ongoing | Fly-tipped builders’ rubble with cement sheeting in it |
| Secondhand material on garden structures | Unknown origin | Reused sheets on sheds and dog runs |
On a new build the question to ask is not “what is the house made of” but “what is in the soil the excavator is about to move”.
Building On A Stand With Debris
- Walk the stand before site clearance. Grey, flat or corrugated fragments in rubble heaps or long grass are worth a sample before a bulldozer spreads them.
- Do not let it go into fill. Broken asbestos cement mixed into backfill or under a slab stays on the property and becomes the next owner’s problem.
- Brief the excavation crew. If they hit a layer of buried sheeting, they stop in that area and the builder calls a registered contractor. The rest of the site can usually carry on.
- The landowner owns the problem. Even if someone else dumped it, the cost of clearing it properly normally falls on whoever owns the stand. Factor that into the price of a vacant plot.
Surface Picking Versus Soil Removal
Scattered fragments lying on the surface can usually be hand-picked wet, bagged and removed in a day. Material that has been buried or broken into the topsoil is a bigger job: the contaminated layer is scraped, wrapped and taken to a permitted hazardous waste facility, and a visual inspection or clearance confirms the area is clean before construction resumes. Dry, windy winter days are the time to keep the ground damped down while this happens.
Rubble that someone has dumped on your verge or stand is worth reporting and photographing before it is moved. Do not break it up or load it into a general rubble skip.
Olympus Cost Guide
| Job | Indicative range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Site walkover and sampling | R3,500 – R8,500 | Before clearance or earthworks |
| Single laboratory test | R1,200 – R2,800 | Per sample |
| Surface pick-up of fragments | R6,000 – R18,000 | Depends on the area covered |
| Removal and disposal, per square metre | R185 – R425/m² | Intact sheeting on structures |
| Shed or garden structure, ~20m² | R7,500 – R16,000 | Reused sheets taken down |
Indicative ranges, not quotations. They are benchmarked against the metro averages on Asbestos Removal Pretoria and adjusted for local access and the disposal haul. Condition, access and how much is done in one visit move the number more than the suburb does.
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Compare Olympus QuotesFrequently Asked Questions
We found broken cement sheets while digging foundations. What now?
Stop digging in that area, keep the material damp and get it sampled. If positive, a registered contractor removes the affected soil and debris.
Someone dumped rubble with asbestos sheeting on my stand. Who pays?
In practice usually the landowner, unless the dumper can be identified. Photograph it and report it, but do not leave it lying.
Can the builder just bury it deeper?
No. Asbestos waste has to go to a permitted hazardous waste facility, with a disposal certificate.
Should I check a vacant stand before buying?
If there are rubble heaps or signs of old structures, a walkover is cheap compared with clearing contaminated soil later.
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