Asbestos removal in Esbjerg

In Esbjerg we meet asbestos in the blocks of flats in the city centre’s grid from the 1870 town plan, and in the large residential districts built from the 1960s: Kvaglund, Sædding, Gjesing, Sønderris and Hjerting.

Asbestos in Esbjerg homes

The centre’s blocks between Skolegade, Kongensgade, Stormgade and Jernbanegade gained three- to four-storey buildings in the 1890s, and during and after the Second World War the municipality and housing associations built within the town area. Here asbestos is typically found in pipe insulation on the basement heating pipes, which should be assessed before a plumber cuts into anything, and in ceilings and walls and tile adhesive and floors in flats modernised in the 1960s and 70s. Kvaglund, northern Sædding, northern Gjesing and Sønderris were planned on open fields from the 1960s, and Hjerting gained new neighbourhoods from the late 1970s. If your house, garage or carport there has a roof of corrugated sheets or fibre-cement slates from before 1990, it may be an asbestos roof.

Fibre-cement sheets containing asbestos were produced until 1988 and laid until around 1990, tile adhesive and floor glue could contain asbestos until around 1980, and asbestos pipe insulation belongs mostly to the years before the main ban of 1972 but occurs until around 1980. The building year tells you where to look, but only an asbestos sample shows whether the material contains asbestos. Have it tested first.

Businesses in Esbjerg

The town’s two largest industrial areas lie south of the town between Vestkraftkaj and Måde and along the harbour, where firms work in offshore, wind energy and freight. Halls, workshops and warehouses from before 1990 can have fibre-cement roofs and asbestos-containing ceiling boards. We plan commercial jobs zone by zone so the rest of the building can keep running, and you get the documentation for the municipality’s waste notification.