Best asbestos removal in Morley & Midland (2026)
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These are the best-reviewed asbestos removal operators working Morley, Midland and the suburbs between them: Bayswater, Embleton, Noranda and Beechboro down the Morley end, through Bassendean, Ashfield and Caversham, to Guildford, South Guildford, Hazelmere, Midvale and Woodbridge at the Midland end. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. Asbestos is the one trade on this site where the paperwork matters as much as the reviews: in WA, removing more than 10 square metres of bonded asbestos sheeting requires a WorkSafe-licensed removalist, and any amount of friable asbestos requires a Class A licence. All three operators below have a verified base in this corridor, and this side of the city is where Perth’s dedicated asbestos specialists actually live. The testing-only outfits, a couple of no-address listings sharing a single phone number, an apparently defunct operator and two listings sitting under our rating floor have all been cut. Below the list you’ll find what removal actually costs in 2026, the 10 square metre rule explained, the red flags that should end a conversation, and a checklist to run before anyone touches a fibro sheet on your property.
Featured asbestos removalists
These spots are for licensed removalists working Morley, Bayswater and Midland who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked list is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a licensed asbestos removalist in the eastern corridor? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every operator’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps across Morley, Bayswater, Bassendean, Guildford and Midland.
- Volume matters as much as the score. We weight each rating by its review count, so a small perfect score and a big 4.6 land within a whisker of each other, and that’s exactly what happened here: the top three finished closer than on any other page on this site. Read the entries as well as the order, because the three offer genuinely different services.
- Licence first, then reviews. Asbestos removal is a licensed trade in WA, so unlike our other rankings the first filter is the paperwork: a WorkSafe WA asbestos removal licence (Class A for friable material, Class B for bonded sheets), a licensed asbestos assessor on staff, or published licensing credentials backed by a review record of real asbestos jobs. Where an operator publishes a licence number we say so, and where they don’t, we tell you to ask for it.
- Verified locally, or cut. Search results here get padded with businesses based elsewhere in Perth, so we checked map coordinates, street addresses and websites rather than trusting names. We also used the corridor specialist’s claimed Bayswater listing and ignored the unclaimed duplicate of it that floats around the northern suburbs.
- Paid spots are labelled, and never jump the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
GHS Demolition and Services
A perfect 5.0 across 11 reviews, and the asbestos work is in the reviews themselves, not just the brochure: asbestos cladding removal, asbestos fence and shed jobs, and one reviewer who had over 100 square metres stripped from a 90-year-old house and made a point of praising how careful the crew was. Another notes they were handed an independent asbestos clearance report at the end, which is exactly the paperwork this page keeps banging on about. GHS runs from Heald Court in Hazelmere at the Midland end of the corridor, led by Kendall, who reviewers name repeatedly for quick quotes and turning up when he said he would. The site at ghsdemolition.com.au describes the outfit as fully licensed and insured but doesn’t publish a WorkSafe licence number, so do what our checklist says and ask for the number and class with the quote. Smallest review base on the page, which the weighting accounts for; the record it does have is spotless.
View listing & contact ▸Vinsan Home Demolition
A 4.8 across 17 reviews for the home-demolition arm of Vinsan, a Bayswater fixture on Katanning Street with over three decades of demolition behind it. This is the strongest published asbestos paperwork of the three: the site at vinsanhomedemo.com.au names Gavin Kristal as the company’s licensed asbestos assessor, describes asbestos removal and disposal alongside its demolitions, commits to disposal through licensed facilities, and finishes jobs with an independent asbestos clearance certificate. Reviewers back the process up: quotes that landed accurate with no variations, timelines that held, and full house demolitions handled professionally including the sensitive ones. One honest note: this ranking is for the home-demolition service specifically. Vinsan’s separate salvage-yard listing has its own mixed reviews and sits below our rating floor, so don’t confuse the two when you look them up.
View listing & contact ▸Rapid Asbestos Removals
A 4.6 across 65 reviews is the deepest verified record of any asbestos operator in this corridor, and Rapid is the only dedicated asbestos specialist on the page: removal is the whole business, not a demolition add-on. The paperwork is the cleanest here too. The site at rapidasbestos.com.au publishes its Class B asbestos removal licence number, WR2032, tells you to verify it on the government register, and lists $20 million in public liability cover. Reviews are current, weeks old at the time of writing, and name James and Steve for fast quoting, clear communication and tidy sites across exactly the jobs this corridor generates: walls, eaves, sheds and super-six fences, plus testing and air monitoring when you’re not sure what you’re dealing with. Third on weighted score by a few hundredths of a point, which is what happens when a big, honest 4.6 meets two small perfect scores; for a standalone strip-out with a licence number you can check today, this is the specialist.
View listing & contact ▸Only three made this page, and that’s deliberate. Everything else we found either fell short of our minimum of a 4.3 rating with at least two or three reviews, wasn’t actually a removalist, or wasn’t verifiably here. A 4.2-rated testing and consultancy firm in Midland sits just under our rating floor, as does Vinsan’s separate salvage-yard listing. A Henley Brook operator with six good reviews looks to have closed, with Google flagging the listing and nothing newer than five years. Two no-address “Perth asbestos” listings turned out to share the same mobile number, which is lead-generation behaviour, not a local business. A no-review listing on Beaufort Street and a roofing-contractor listing with no reviews gave us nothing public to rank. And the big Balcatta environmental outfit that dominates searches on the other side of the city belongs to that side of the city. Three verified locals beats eleven padded ones.
What asbestos removal actually costs around Morley and Midland (2026)
Asbestos pricing is quoted after a look at the job, because the two numbers that swing it hardest are how much material there is and what condition it’s in (bonded sheets in good nick are routine; broken, weathered or friable material changes the licence class and the controls) and access and disposal (double-wrapping, safe loading and tipping at a licensed facility are a real share of the bill). These are honest indicative ranges for common jobs based on what Perth removalists publish in 2026. They’re a guide, not a quote, and GST treatment varies, so confirm it on the written quote.
| Job | Typical range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Bonded sheet removal (walls, ceilings, eaves) | from ~$50/m² | Height, tight access, broken sheets, interior strip-outs |
| Minimum job charge | $950-$2,000 | Most licensed crews carry a minimum; small jobs cost proportionally more |
| Asbestos fence removal | $25-$90/m | Concrete footings, overgrown vegetation, hard access, long runs |
| Asbestos roof, single-storey house | $3,500-$5,500 | Pitch, height, brittle sheets; replacement roofing is extra |
| Testing a suspect material | priced per sample | Number of samples, lab turnaround; cheap insurance before any reno |
| Air monitoring & clearance certificate | priced per job | Required controls scale with the job; independent hygienist for friable work |
| House demolition including asbestos | quoted per job | Asbestos quantity, house size, access, what’s salvageable |
Two local notes. First, this corridor is Perth’s fibro heartland: the postwar housing across Morley, Bayswater, Embleton, Bassendean and the older streets of Midland and Midvale was built when asbestos cement was standard, so a pre-1990 home here should be assumed to have fibro in the eaves, wet-area walls, fences or shed until a test says otherwise, while the newer estates towards Caversham and Brabham post-date the 2003 national ban. Second, disposal from this corridor usually means the Red Hill Waste Management Facility on Toodyay Road, which accepts asbestos as Type 1 special waste under specific handling rules, so check Red Hill’s wrapping and notice requirements before arriving with anything. A licensed removalist’s quote should name where the waste is going and include the tip receipt in the paperwork.
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- No licence number on the quote. Removing more than 10 square metres of bonded asbestos is licensed work in WA, and any friable asbestos needs a Class A licence. A legitimate removalist puts their WorkSafe licence number in writing and doesn’t get offended when you check it. “We’re demolition guys, we do it all the time” is not a licence.
- Cash price, no disposal paperwork. Asbestos dumped in bushland or a rented skip is a crime, and it’s your name on the job. A real quote names the licensed disposal facility and the paperwork includes disposal records or tip receipts. If the price only works because the waste vanishes, walk away.
- No clearance at the end. Licensed removal work should finish with a clearance inspection before the area is reoccupied, by an independent licensed asbestos assessor for friable work. Anyone who packs up and calls it done with no clearance step is leaving you to guess what’s left behind.
- A firm price over the phone, sight unseen. Quantity, condition, height and access drive asbestos pricing, and none of them are visible over the phone. Sight-unseen certainty means the surprises get invented on site, in their favour.
- Anyone suggesting water blasting or grinding. High-pressure cleaning an asbestos roof or fence, or taking power tools to fibro, releases fibres and is banned. It shows up on quotes as “roof cleaning and recoating”. The only safe treatments are sealed-and-left, or removed wet, whole and wrapped.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Licence checked. Ask for the WorkSafe WA licence number and class (A for friable, B for bonded) and verify it before signing anything. For demolition jobs, ask for the demolition licence class too.
- Written, itemised quote. Removal, disposal fees, air monitoring and clearance each on their own line, with the disposal facility named.
- Notification handled. Licensed removal work must be notified to WorkSafe at least five days before it starts. Ask who’s lodging it, because it’s a sign the job is being run properly.
- Insurance. A current public liability certificate of currency that covers asbestos work specifically, not just general trades cover.
- Clearance and paperwork at the end. Confirm up front that you’ll receive the clearance documentation and disposal records when the job is done. You’ll want both if you ever sell or renovate.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these asbestos removalists?
By their live Google star rating weighted by the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps across Morley, Bayswater, Bassendean, Guildford, Hazelmere and Midland, with one extra filter the other rankings on this site don’t need: asbestos licensing credentials came first. Every listing is verified to a real base in this corridor by coordinates, street address and its own website. Testing-only services, duplicate and no-address listings and businesses based elsewhere in Perth were cut regardless of rating. The three that passed finished within a few hundredths of a point of each other, so read the write-ups, not just the badges.
Can I remove asbestos myself in WA?
Legally, a householder can remove up to 10 square metres of bonded (non-friable) asbestos, which is roughly a few fence panels or a small patch of eaves. Anything more, and any friable material at all, requires a licensed removalist. If you do a small job yourself: keep the sheets wet and whole, never cut, drill, break or pressure-clean them, double-wrap in 200-micron plastic, and take it to a facility that accepts asbestos. For this corridor that’s usually Red Hill on Toodyay Road, and asbestos there is special waste with its own handling rules, so check the requirements before you load the trailer. Honestly, once you’ve priced the plastic, the PPE and the tip run, a licensed crew’s minimum charge often isn’t far away, and they carry the risk.
How do I know if my house has asbestos?
By age, then by testing. Australia didn’t fully ban asbestos until the end of 2003, and homes built or renovated before 1990 are very likely to contain asbestos cement somewhere: eaves, bathroom and laundry walls, fences, sheds, sometimes the roof. That describes an enormous share of Morley, Bayswater, Bassendean and older Midland housing, while the newer Swan-side estates around Caversham and Brabham are too new to be affected. You cannot identify asbestos by looking at it; a lab test on a sample is the only way to know, and it’s cheap insurance before any renovation.
Why are there only three on this list?
Because that’s how many we could verify as licensed removal operators with a real base between Morley and Midland and a live review record. This trade’s Google results are cluttered with testing services, lead-generation listings, defunct operators and duplicates. Rather than pad the page, we listed the three that pass every check, and this corridor at least has the excuse of hosting genuine specialists. As more eastern-suburbs operators build a review history, the list grows.
Is an asbestos fence or roof dangerous if I just leave it?
Bonded asbestos in good condition, painted or sealed and left undisturbed, is generally low risk, and leaving it alone is a legitimate option. The risk comes when it’s damaged, badly weathered to the point of showing raised fibres, or disturbed by drilling, sanding, pressure-cleaning or demolition. A grey, mossy super-six fence that’s crumbling at the base or a roof shedding fragments into the gutters is past the leave-it stage: get it assessed, and get the removal quoted by someone licensed.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 20 August 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.