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Hi all,
Just wanting to get your opinions, we moved into our new place in December and one of the things that on the survey was asbestos in the garage (it’s an extension built in the 1970s).
The surveyor said, as a minimum the holes should be repaired with fire line boarding. He noted to us the room above seemed quite cold and it may benefit from being insulated if we plan on staying there a long time. To do this the current ceiling boards would need to come down and our quote to remove the asbestos and replace the fireboarding is £3500. (that doesn’t include insulation)
hole made for light
Can only just see the top left holes in the boxing, it looks like there was a pipe added here at some point (it runs to nothing though behind a bench)
Legendary lighting
Internal door
The room above is cool, but seems to partly be as its wood flooring, we have the thermostat in that room and set to 17.5 during the night. Less during the day, the heating does kick in during the night but not a lot (unlike our last place). I find it to warm during night in there!
So we are trying to work out If its worth doing, as the outlay is a lot and our other list of things to do is extensive. I was working in the garage the other week and the cold/ draught coming in from the garage door (I can see daylight) was quite bad, so it seemed silly to get the above done without perhaps looking into this as well.
Opinions on what others would do will be appreciated!
TLDR: would you pay £3500 to have this removed and add some insulation, or just leave it be.
Just wanting to get your opinions, we moved into our new place in December and one of the things that on the survey was asbestos in the garage (it’s an extension built in the 1970s).
The surveyor said, as a minimum the holes should be repaired with fire line boarding. He noted to us the room above seemed quite cold and it may benefit from being insulated if we plan on staying there a long time. To do this the current ceiling boards would need to come down and our quote to remove the asbestos and replace the fireboarding is £3500. (that doesn’t include insulation)
hole made for light
Can only just see the top left holes in the boxing, it looks like there was a pipe added here at some point (it runs to nothing though behind a bench)
Legendary lighting
Internal door
The room above is cool, but seems to partly be as its wood flooring, we have the thermostat in that room and set to 17.5 during the night. Less during the day, the heating does kick in during the night but not a lot (unlike our last place). I find it to warm during night in there!
So we are trying to work out If its worth doing, as the outlay is a lot and our other list of things to do is extensive. I was working in the garage the other week and the cold/ draught coming in from the garage door (I can see daylight) was quite bad, so it seemed silly to get the above done without perhaps looking into this as well.
Opinions on what others would do will be appreciated!
TLDR: would you pay £3500 to have this removed and add some insulation, or just leave it be.
