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Asbestos Surveys in The City, Buckinghamshire
Found something that might be asbestos in The City? Our service covers asbestos surveys for homes, landlords and businesses, with clear advice at each step.
- Demolition of garages, extensions and buildings
- Schools, halls and community buildings
- Checks on rental property
Asbestos survey in The City
Common questions in The City
Do you cover The City and the area around Saunderton station?
Yes, we cover The City and the area towards Saunderton station, about 1.8 miles north-east.
Do you cover The City from London?
We cover The City, about 35 miles from central London.
Do landlords need an asbestos survey?
Duty holders for non-domestic buildings and the common parts of flats usually do. Private landlords and homeowners often commission one too, to know what’s there before work.
How quickly can you come out?
That depends on the work and current bookings. You will get available dates with the quote.
Is asbestos dangerous?
Asbestos fibres can cause serious lung diseases years after exposure. The main risk is from disturbing it, which is why identifying it first matters.
Does asbestos always have to come out?
Not always. Sound material that won’t be touched can often stay, as long as it’s recorded.
Do I need to be at home?
Someone has to let us into all the areas in the job.
What’s the difference between a test and a survey?
Testing tells you about particular materials; a survey looks at everything in scope, including things you hadn’t spotted.
Asbestos survey near The City
A survey is not just a list of what’s there. It tells you which materials are fine to leave, which need watching and which should come out before work, in plain English. Common materials are soffits, boiler cupboard panels and floor tiles, and people normally contact us about planned refurbishment work and rented homes between tenancies.
Village surveys around The City can include extensions, stores and stables as well as the house, each scoped separately if needed. Nothing is added to the job that you do not need, and we’ll say when the right answer is to leave something alone.
- Where
- The City (HP14)
- Region
- Buckinghamshire
- Service
- Management, refurbishment and demolition, and pre-purchase surveys
- Afterwards
- Survey report and lab results
- Price
- Quoted individually, in writing
- Phone
- 07833 053 749
- Page updated
- 26 October 2026
Places near The City
More for properties in The City
For landlords, agents and businesses
Duty holders for workplaces and the shared parts of flats in The City must manage asbestos under regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. That means finding it, assessing it, recording it and planning how to manage it.
Contractors working for you need asbestos information before they start. HSE regularly reminds owners and trades of it.
What affects the price in The City
These are the main things that affect the price of an asbestos survey:
- How big the building is
- The number of samples or the size of the building
- Roof spaces and outbuildings in scope
- How much there is
Our quotes are clear about VAT.
Helping us quote
What to photograph:
- Visible markings
- How we’d reach it
- Damaged areas
- The parking area
Photos taken from a safe distance are fine: send them through our contact page.
What it might be made of
Textured coatings
Older textured ceilings can contain asbestos. They’re low risk left alone, but shouldn’t be sanded or scraped dry.
Insulating board
Insulating board can look like ordinary plasterboard or cement board, which is why sampling matters.
What we do and don’t cover
Before you book, note that:
- The survey tells you what’s there; removal is a separate job
- Inaccessible areas are recorded, and should be presumed to contain asbestos
- A management survey is only minimally intrusive, so it won’t do before building work
Not sure what you need? Send us photos and we will tell you honestly.
What we deal with
- Roofing felt and bitumen
- Artex and textured coatings
- Garage and shed roofs
- Floor tiles and adhesive
- Water tanks and flues
- Cement sheets and cladding
- Boiler cupboards and panels
- Ceiling tiles
- Soffits and porch canopies
- Pipe lagging
How it works
On the day, the surveyor walks through the areas in scope, checks every suspect material and takes small samples, wetting and sealing each sample point to keep dust down. We go over the plan with you first, so you know what’s happening.
- Tell us about the building, its age and what you’re planning
- You get a written quote for the agreed scope
- On the agreed day, the surveyor inspects, photographs and samples
- The samples are analysed by an accredited laboratory
- The report comes to you, and we explain anything that is not clear
How to prepare
- Have any previous surveys or test results ready
- Mention any damage before we arrive
- Let neighbours know if the work is near them
Ask for a quote
Share the postcode, a short description and photos: use our quote form or call 07833 053 749, and we’ll reply with a quote.
Helpful guides
DIY and asbestos
Found something mid-DIY? Stop: keep people away, don’t sweep or vacuum it up, and get advice.
Asbestos waste can’t go in household bins, recycling or skips. It has to go to a site that accepts it, and some councils accept small amounts from residents by arrangement.
Where asbestos turns up
Until the 1999 ban, asbestos went into hundreds of building products. So buildings across Buckinghamshire can contain it in roofs, soffits, ceilings, floors and boiler cupboards.
People usually contact us about one of these:
- The communal parts of blocks of flats
- Rented homes due for maintenance
- Demolition of garages, extensions and buildings
- Schools, halls and community buildings
A school such as Radnage Church of England Primary School counts as non-domestic premises, where the law requires asbestos to be managed.
Comparing quotes
- Which areas are covered, and which are not
- What you’ll receive in writing
- That samples are analysed by an accredited laboratory
- Whether they’re insured for asbestos work
After we’ve finished in The City
Share the report with builders and trades before they start, so they know what to avoid or plan around.
Looking after any asbestos that remains:
- Book the survey before you book builders
- Make sure we can get into the loft, garage and cupboards
- For flats, ask the managing agent for the asbestos register for the common parts
- Keep children and pets away from the areas being surveyed
Avoid these
Book the survey before the builders, so the results can shape your plans and your budget.
If something has been damaged already, close the area off and let us know, rather than cleaning it up.
The City buildings and asbestos surveys
The City is about 5 miles north-west of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire. For surveys in The City, tell us about parking and access. We cover 263 places in Buckinghamshire. We work right across the region, from The City to Reading (15 miles away).
Halls and leisure centres near The City fall into the non-domestic category, so their owners must manage any asbestos. For rented homes close to Saunderton station, asbestos information should be ready for contractors before maintenance. Parts of the Chilterns National Landscape are within about 2 miles of The City, where farm buildings, barns and stables with cement roofs are common.
This part of Buckinghamshire takes in HP14. Streets in the area include Bottle Square Lane, Radnage Common Road and Green Lane, and an asbestos survey is available on all of them. For properties just outside The City, we cover Waterend (1 mile west), Beacon's Bottom (1 mile south-west), Radnage (1 mile north), Bennett End (1 mile north-west) and Green End (1 mile south-east). We also cover nearby towns such as Aylesbury (11 miles north), High Wycombe (5 miles south-east), Chesham (11 miles east), Marlow (7 miles south-east), Amersham (11 miles east) and Beaconsfield (10 miles east).
Well-known places in the area include West Wycombe Rural (1.6 miles south-east) and Wycombe Hospital (5 miles south-east). The countryside around The City includes Yoesden and Bald Hill.
- Pubs nearby include The Crown pub (0.5 miles north-west)
- Nothing removed blind: unknown materials are tested first
- Done to the regulations: HSE guidance and CAR 2012
- Paperwork for your records: reports, lab results and consignment notes
- Waste sealed and labelled, then taken to a permitted site