Asbestos Refurbishment & Demolition Surveys in Hampshire

Standard management surveys only cover surface materials that are visible during normal daily living without causing surface damage. A builder cutting through walls, pulling down ceilings, or digging into floors needs a fully intrusive R&D survey that breaks into structural voids to confirm what is hidden behind the finishes. Relying on a visual survey for structural construction work breaches health and safety regulations and leaves your trades at risk of disturbing concealed asbestos.

Yes, you can commission a targeted refurbishment survey that strictly covers the rooms, walls, and services affected by your proposed building works. We work directly from your architect's plans to define the inspection boundary, checking only the relevant partition walls, ceiling joists, subfloors, and service penetrations scheduled for alteration. The rest of your home remains undisturbed, which keeps both disruption and surveying costs down.

Because an R&D survey is purposely intrusive, we have to lift floorboards, drill access holes into boxing, drop ceiling sections, and inspect unboarded roof spaces within the works boundary. If you are already living in the property during a phased refurbishment, we isolate the work area with polythene sheeting, use surfactant sprays to suppress dust, and run an H-Class HEPA vacuum to shadow the tool. Every penetration point is sealed with PVA or durable filler before we leave so the room remains safe to walk through.

Many older local properties have undergone several refits over the decades, often resulting in modern plasterboard or plywood being fixed directly over older textured coatings, vinyl floor tiles, or asbestos insulating board. We take full cross-sectional core samples right down to the original brickwork, timber studding, or subfloor slab to ensure every hidden layer is catalogued. This prevents your contractors from unexpectedly uncovering a hazardous layer halfway through pulling down a partition wall.

If we find high-risk materials such as asbestos insulating board partition linings or pipe lagging, we detail their exact condition, extent, and location in the survey register. We do not carry out licensed removals ourselves, which means our assessment remains completely impartial. We provide a clear scope of works detailing what needs to be removed so you can hand it straight to specialist licensed contractors for accurate quotes before your main building team arrives on site.