Asbestos Roof Encapsulation And Coating Cheltenham

Cheltenham and the duty to manage asbestos

If you own or run a commercial building in Cheltenham, you’ve got a duty to manage asbestos. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 says it plain: find it, assess it, record it, manage it. That doesn’t always mean ripping it out. If asbestos cement is still sound, we can seal it, keep an eye on it. Encapsulation is a solid, recorded part of your management plan, not the costly strip-out everyone dreads.

Where these roofs sit around Cheltenham

Cheltenham’s a smart Regency town, but it has a real working backbone. We see asbestos cement roofs from the 60s, 70s and 80s everywhere: Kingsditch, Lansdown industrial estates, trade units, the business parks that grew up with the tech firms, and those older buildings tucked behind the grand facades. Head out of town into the Cotswolds and you’ll find agricultural barns and stores with the same corrugated sheets. After decades of rain and sun, these roofs are porous, green with moss, and often leaking at the fixings, even if the sheets themselves are still holding up.

What encapsulation actually involves

First, we survey the roof sheet by sheet. Then, we clean it right, under controlled conditions. No fibres flying, no sheets getting damaged. We replace any failed fixings, sort out brittle rooflights, do necessary repairs. Once it’s all prepped, we seal the surface with a coating system specifically for asbestos cement. The coating binds everything, locks those fibres in, makes the roof shed water again, and adds years of life. Crucially, your building stays open throughout, and it costs a lot less than ripping the whole thing off and starting again.

For Cheltenham building owners with a duty to manage asbestos, encapsulation with the right paint build is often the practical route, and the survey confirms if your roof qualifies.

When we will say no

Look, some roofs just shouldn’t be coated. Better to know now. Encapsulation won’t work if the sheets are badly cracked or full of holes, if the cement is soft and crumbling, or if the building’s moving too much. And we only coat asbestos cement. Insulation board, pipe lagging, sprayed coatings? That’s licensed work, needs an HSE-licensed contractor to remove it. If removal is the right call for your roof, we’ll tell you straight, in writing.

A survey-led service for Cheltenham

Cheltenham’s well within our patch for surveys, and we cover the whole county too. Have a look at asbestos roof encapsulation across Gloucestershire. Our process is simple:

• We’ll do a full condition survey: sheets, fixings, rooflights, gutters, structure.
• You’ll get a photographic record for your asbestos management plan.
• We’ll give you a clear recommendation: encapsulate it, repair it first, or get it removed.
• We’ll only give you a spec and price if coating is genuinely the best option.
• And we carry out all work under strict, documented controls.

If your building went up between the 1960s and 1980s and that roof hasn’t been checked, a free asbestos roof encapsulation survey will answer your compliance questions and give you a clear picture of the costs.

Recently — July 2026

Recent work around here has been a mix of profiled metal roofs, cladding and ageing asbestos cement, each assessed on its own condition before anything was specified.

Long daylight and warm, dry days are when a coating cures and bonds best, so summer is a sensible time to get the work booked in.