We work across Shropshire, helping building owners protect their commercial, industrial, and agricultural properties. Our focus is on keeping water out, stopping rust creep on exposed elevations, and protecting the side that takes the prevailing weather. From the livestock farming estates near the Welsh border to the industrial heritage sites around Ironbridge, we’ve seen how the elements can compromise a building’s integrity. We coat roofs, walls, and cladding, but our most common job is extending the life of ageing asbestos cement roofs. We’re not a domestic decorator; we coat the outside of commercial buildings.
Meeting your asbestos obligations in Shropshire
If you control a non-domestic building anywhere in Shropshire, you’ll know that the law dictates how you manage asbestos. We see it all the time with leaking roofs. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 puts the duty to manage squarely on your shoulders: find it, assess it, record it, manage it. That doesn’t always mean stripping it out. If the asbestos cement is sound, we can seal it, monitor it, and that’s exactly what planned, recorded asbestos roof encapsulation does.
Stopping water ingress and corrosion creep in Shropshire
The prevailing weather can really take its toll on commercial buildings in Shropshire. We’re often called out to stop water ingress on roofs, walls, and cladding, and treat cut-edge corrosion that’s starting to creep across profiled steel sheets. Water finds its way in through failing fixings, degraded render, or cracked cladding panels. Once it’s in, it can accelerate rust on steelwork and compromise your building’s structure. We specialise in sealing these defects, protecting your building’s exterior from the elements, and extending its service life. We don’t just address the immediate leak; we protect the entire elevation that’s taking the brunt of the weather.
We treat every Shropshire asbestos roof as fragile until the survey says otherwise, and the coating or paint system is chosen for the sheets in front of us.
Our thorough approach to building coatings in Shropshire
We survey commercial, industrial, managed, and agricultural buildings all over Shropshire, covering Telford, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Bridgnorth, and Market Drayton. Our process is the same for every building:
- A condition survey of sheets, fixings, rooflights, gutters and structure
- A photographic record for your asbestos management plan
- A plain written recommendation: encapsulate, repair first, or refer for removal
- A specification and price only where coating is genuinely appropriate
- Work carried out under controlled, documented conditions
Common locations for asbestos cement roofing across Shropshire
From the industrial and distribution estates around Telford, through the trade units in Shrewsbury, and out to the barns and grain stores that dot Shropshire’s agricultural landscape, asbestos cement roofs are a common sight. It’s one of the UK’s most agricultural counties, so we’ve seen plenty.
Many of these roofs were only built for a thirty-year lifespan. Most have long outrun that now. We find them porous, covered in moss, and leaking at the fixings, even when the sheets themselves are still sound.
Choosing between encapsulation, repair, or full removal
Encapsulation isn’t just slapping paint over a problem. We take a methodical approach: survey the roof sheet by sheet, clean it under controlled conditions, repair any failed fixings and rooflights, then seal it with a coating system designed specifically for asbestos cement. The cured surface binds the sheet, locks those fibres in, restores proper water-shedding, and adds years of service life. It’s usually a fraction of the cost of stripping, hazardous-waste disposal, and full replacement, and you won’t have to empty the building.
When we recommend removal instead of coating
There are some roofs we simply won’t coat. It’s better you hear that from us before we survey, rather than after a failure. If the sheets are extensively cracked or holed, if the cement has gone soft and friable from decades of saturation, or if storm damage or structural movement has compromised the roof’s integrity, encapsulation won’t be right. We only encapsulate asbestos cement. If you’ve got insulation board, lagging, or sprayed coatings, those are licensable and need to be removed by an HSE-licensed contractor. If removal is the right call for your Shropshire building, we’ll tell you so in writing.
If you manage a building in Shropshire that dates from the 1960s to the 1980s and the roof hasn’t been assessed, a free asbestos roof encapsulation survey will answer both your compliance and cost questions.
Asbestos roof encapsulation across Shropshire is survey-led, with every building assessed before anything is specified. For the full service and how we assess each roof, see our Asbestos Roof Encapsulation service, or request a free site survey.
Recently — June 2026
Recent enquiries here have been a mix of metal industrial roofs, profiled cladding and ageing asbestos-cement sheets, all assessed on a free site survey before anything is specified.
Settled summer weather suits coating and spraying work, with stable temperatures and dry surfaces helping systems cure and bond as specified.
