Asbestos Roof Encapsulation And Coating Wiltshire

Managing asbestos roofs across Wiltshire starts with the law

Any leaking asbestos roof across Wiltshire has to be dealt with, and the law is the first place we look. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 puts the duty to manage on whoever runs maintenance for non-domestic places. You’ve got to find it, assess it, record it, and manage it. That doesn’t always mean ripping it out. 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 action.

Where asbestos cement roofing sits across Wiltshire

You’ll find asbestos cement roofs all over Wiltshire. They’re on the old industrial and logistics estates around Swindon, a leftover from its railway and motor industry days. They’re on the units in Chippenham and Melksham. And, of course, they’re on farm buildings right across the Wiltshire downs.

A lot of these roofs were built for thirty years. They’ve been running a lot longer than that. That’s why so many are now porous, covered in moss, and leaking at the fixings, even if the sheets themselves are still sound.

Encapsulation, repair or removal: the honest choice

Encapsulation isn’t just painting over a problem. We survey the roof sheet by sheet. We clean it under controlled conditions, fix failed rooflights and fixings, then seal it with a coating system made for asbestos cement. The new surface binds the sheet, locks in any fibres, starts shedding water properly again, and adds years of life. It usually costs a lot less than stripping it out, paying for hazardous waste disposal, and replacing the whole thing. And you don’t have to empty the building to do it.

For Wiltshire 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 tell you to remove instead

There are roofs we simply won’t coat. We’d rather you heard that from us before a survey than after it fails. Encapsulation is the wrong call if the sheets are extensively cracked or holed, or if the cement itself has gone soft and friable from decades of saturation. It’s also no good if storm damage or structural movement has broken the roof’s integrity. And it’s strictly for asbestos cement only. If it’s insulation board, lagging, or sprayed coatings, those are licensable and need an HSE-licensed contractor to remove them. If removal is the right thing for your building, we’ll tell you that in writing.

Survey-led across Wiltshire

We survey commercial, industrial, managed, and agricultural buildings all over Wiltshire, including Swindon, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Salisbury, and Melksham. The 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

If you’ve got a building in your portfolio from the 1960s to the 1980s and the roof hasn’t been looked at, a free asbestos roof encapsulation survey will answer both the compliance questions and the cost questions for you.

Recently — June 2026

A summer survey gives us time to specify and programme the work before the wetter months make access and curing harder.

We do not price a roof we have not stood on, so every job here starts with a proper look at the building.