We coat the outside of commercial, industrial, and agricultural buildings across West Sussex. We don’t just fix problems; we prevent them. Our focus is on honest repair and planned maintenance, catching leaks, failed fixings, and coating breakdown early. We’d rather you had a small, honest repair now than a big, expensive emergency call-out later. Whether your building is near the A27 or further inland in the horticultural belt, we’re here to help.
When a roof needs stripping or asbestos roof encapsulation in West Sussex
Some roofs just shouldn’t be coated. We’ll tell you straight. Encapsulation is the wrong call if the sheets are badly cracked or holed, if the cement is soft and crumbling from years of water getting in, or if the whole structure has moved. And remember, we’re talking about asbestos cement here. Insulation board, lagging, or sprayed coating is licensable material, and you’ll need an HSE-licensed remover for that. If removal is the honest answer, we’ll put that in writing and step aside.
Any leaking asbestos roof in West Sussex starts with the law, not a coating quote. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 puts the duty to manage on whoever controls the maintenance of non-domestic premises. That means you find it, you assess it, you record it, and you manage it. Removing it isn’t always the answer. If the asbestos cement is sound, you can keep it in place, seal it, and monitor it. That’s exactly what encapsulation is: a planned, recorded measure.
Managing asbestos cement roofs across West Sussex
Done properly, encapsulation seals a sound asbestos cement roof, stopping you from needing to remove it. We start with a sheet-by-sheet survey. Then we clean the roof under controlled conditions, sort out any failed fixings and brittle rooflights. Finally, we apply a coating system designed specifically for asbestos cement. It binds the surface, locks the fibres in, and restores its ability to shed water for years. All that with far less cost and disruption than a full strip-out and re-roof.
A West Sussex asbestos roof that only looks tired can often be painted with an encapsulating system and kept. One that leaks through cracked sheets usually cannot, and we tell you which is which.
Survey-led building coating in West Sussex
We survey commercial, industrial, managed, and agricultural buildings across the county, including Crawley, Worthing, Chichester, Bognor Regis, and Horsham. The route is the same wherever the building is:
- 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
Where asbestos roofing is found across West Sussex
West Sussex’s economy clusters around Gatwick and the coast. Asbestos cement roofs sit across the Crawley and Manor Royal industrial estate, one of the South East’s largest, the Worthing and Bognor commercial units, and the agricultural buildings of the Downs and the Weald.
Most of these roofs were built for a thirty-year life. They’ve long outrun it, which is why so many are now porous, moss-covered, and leaking at the fixings, even where the sheets themselves remain sound. We’ve seen how small leaks grow into much larger, more expensive problems without planned upkeep.
If you’ve got a building in West Sussex from the 1960s to the 1980s, and the roof hasn’t been assessed, a free asbestos roof encapsulation survey answers both the compliance and the cost questions.
We survey and encapsulate asbestos cement roofs across West Sussex. For the full survey-led service and how we assess each building, see our Asbestos Roof Encapsulation service, or request a free site survey.
