Asbestos Testing Sunshine Coast

Asbestos in the Sunshine Coast, asbestos was used extensively as a building material in Australia throughout the twentieth century. From Noosa to Caloundra, any older building in the Sunshine Coast is likely to contain asbestos. Asbestos can be found anywhere from walls to floors to roofing.

If you’re in the Sunshine Coast and planning to renovate, make sure you take the right precautions around asbestos. The best place to start is by taking a sample of any suspicious material and sending it to Airsafe before you commence renovations. Our asbestos testing services will put your mind at rest, and it won’t cost you the earth.

Cost of asbestos testing in the Sunshine Coast

If you search for asbestos testing on the internet, you might find Sunshine Coast companies offering testing at a very low price. It’s important to be careful with offers like these. Low-priced asbestos testing companies often use third-party laboratories that may not be NATA accredited. And at the end of the process, you may be hit with unexpected additional fees.

At Airsafe, we keep it simple. We charge a single fixed price for every sample tested, and we don’t add extra costs for a quick turnaround.

Contact us for asbestos testing in the Sunshine Coast today

• Evaluating your site property to establish what is suspect with containing asbestos.
• Give you the details of 3 or 4 independent asbestos testing laboratories, so you can have the products independently tested.
• If work is required, we supply a free no obligation quotation including removal and rebuild if required.
• On acceptance liaise with you on time frame and completion of job.
• Clean work site so it looks like we were never there.

Don't be fooled into thinking that the unseen asbestos product is not harmful to you and your family or work collogues as independent studies have shown that exposure to asbestos fibers can be deadly.

It is unfortunate that when it was decided to use asbestos in manufacturing that it was not tested to see if it would be safe. Only when deadly coincidence's happened that it would be stopped but not until 2004 and only when it was evident that when either caused death or serious health issues. There is no excuse today though in having this product around now. Testing and removal is at everyone's fingertips and is as easy as picking up a phone and start the process of removing asbestos products.

•  Mesothelioma, which is always fatal,  
•  Lung cancer almost always fatal,
•  Asbestosis not always fatal, but it can be very debilitating
•  Diffuse pleural thickening, not fatal.

Asbestos fibers are present in the environment in Australia so most people are exposed to very low levels of fibers. However, a key factor in the risk of developing an asbestos-related disease is the total number of fibers breathed in. Working on or near damaged asbestos-containing materials or breathing in high levels of asbestos fibers, which may be many hundreds of times that of environmental levels can increase your chances of getting an asbestos-related disease.

Asbestos related diseases won't affect immediately but later on in life, so there is a need for you to protect yourself now to prevent you contracting an asbestos-related disease in the future. It is also important to remember that people who smoke and are also exposed to asbestos fibers are at a much greater risk of developing lung cancer.

Here is more information about the affects of asbestos at The Pleural Mesothelioma Center