Porch canopies and door hoods across Kent’s interwar and post-war housing were routinely built with asbestos cement board. They surface in pre-purchase surveys and porch projects daily.
Most porch roofs are removed, bagged and gone in one short visit. We protect the entrance, lift the deck off intact, check the timbers and leave you temporarily weathertight or ready for a new canopy.
Scheduled before your new porch installation
Frame checked with photos, retain or replace
Four clear stages take your porch roof from a quick photo check to a fixed price, safe removal and full paperwork, all in one short visit.
Send us photos and your postcode for a same-day indication. A surveyor then attends to confirm the material and the full scope before a price is produced.
Removal, disposal and consignment note, all in one written price within 48 hours. Small jobs get exactly the same documentation as large ones.
The entrance is sheeted, boards are lifted whole, fixings are carefully extracted and all debris is bagged at the point of removal. Your front door stays in use throughout.
Waste consigned to a licensed facility, consignment note issued, and timber condition photographs shared so your next trade knows precisely what they are taking on.
£10m public and employer liability insurance on every porch removal job as standard.
Every operative is UKATA-trained. No subcontracting, no agency labour.
Written confirmation within 48 hours. Price confirmed before work begins and does not change.
We remove all waste to an HSE approved facility and provide a consignment note on every job.
FAQS
Very rarely. What solicitors on both sides want to see is evidence that removal was carried out professionally and disposal was documented correctly. A fixed written quote and the completed job with a consignment note is typically all it takes to move the transaction forward again.
A standard canopy is usually done in two to three hours on site. We confirm the expected duration in your quotation, and if you are timing the removal around a new porch installation we will book directly against your installer’s date.
Yes. Tell us the gap between removal and the new installation and we will include a temporary weathering arrangement in the job so the hallway ceiling is not affected while you wait for the next trade.
It may or may not be. Cement board installed before 2000 must be treated as suspect until an asbestos survey confirms otherwise. If you would prefer not to pay for removal you do not need, we will sample first. If the age and appearance make it near-certain, we will tell you and you can go straight to the fixed removal price.
Yes, and we often do. Porch decks, soffit boards and cement rainwater goods from the same era are natural companions. Mention everything when you book and it will all be wrapped into one fixed price and one disposal run.
Asbestos removal cost for a porch sits at the smaller end of our price list. The exact figure depends on size and access and is confirmed free at the survey and fixed in writing within 48 hours. It costs considerably less than most people anticipate.
Almost never. Porch canopies sit at a height that is accessible without scaffolding in virtually all cases. On the rare occasion where additional access equipment is genuinely needed, it is specified and priced in the quotation rather than added on later.
The consignment note and our written completion confirmation together are the two documents that close an asbestos flag on a sale file. Both are produced as standard on every porch removal we carry out, regardless of the job size.
We carry out asbestos removal across Kent, covering porch and canopy jobs from the Edwardian terraces of Canterbury and Folkestone to the interwar housing of Maidstone and Sevenoaks. Same-week survey slots are available throughout.
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Send us your postcode and a description of the material you’ve found. A surveyor will be with you the same week, and your fixed written price follows within 48 hours.
