Asbestos sample in Laitila
If you are renovating in Laitila or elsewhere in Southwest Finland and need certainty about asbestos, we offer the lowest asbestos sample prices in Finland. Results as soon as the next day.
Laitila is in an area where we do not carry out surveys on site. A postal asbestos sample is handled through our partner laboratory OneLab — the same analysis (JEOL SEM-EDS, ISO 22262-1), with results emailed on the day the sample arrives.
Take the sample yourself and post it to us. The analysis is done on the day the sample arrives, and the report comes by email. JEOL SEM-EDS analysis to the ISO 22262-1 standard.
Laitila is a town of roughly 8,400 residents in Southwest Finland, part of the Vakka-Suomi sub-region. The heart of the town is the central built-up area of Laitila, home to more than 5,000 people, and around it lie old villages such as Untamala, Soukainen, Suontaka and Kodjala — many of them carrying an Iron Age and strongly agricultural history, right down to the village street of Untamala. Neighbouring municipalities include Uusikaupunki, Pyhäranta, Mynämäki and Vehmaa. The building stock in this area is in large part low-rise and was built across many different decades: commercial and residential properties in the town centre, areas of detached houses, and countless rural farmyards. In properties completed before 1994 — that is, in a large share of the houses of the 1920s to the 1990s — asbestos was commonly used in floor tiles and their adhesives, in pipe and boiler insulation, in wall and ceiling boards, in fillers, in fixing mortars and in roofing materials. That is why an asbestos survey or an asbestos sample is so important before a renovation, a demolition or the opening up of surfaces, so that the fibres cannot spread into the air people breathe.
Because Laitila lies outside our actual survey area, we serve the town with a mail-in asbestos sample (39,90 € plus VAT). You send us a small piece of the suspect material, and we analyse the sample in our laboratory with a JEOL SEM-EDS electron microscope in accordance with the ISO 22262-1 standard. In this way a housing company, a property owner or a renovator in Laitila gets reliable information about asbestos without anyone having to visit the site.
Laitila: when to take an asbestos sample
Laitila is a town of roughly 8,400 residents in Southwest Finland, part of the Vakka-Suomi sub-region. The heart of the town is the central built-up area of Laitila, home to more than 5,000 people, and around it lie old villages such as Untamala, Soukainen, Suontaka and Kodjala — many of them carrying an Iron Age and strongly agricultural history, right down to the village street of Untamala. That is why, in local properties completed before 1994, it is worth confirming whether a material contains asbestos before anything is opened up, sanded down or demolished. A mail-in asbestos sample suits the situation where the suspicion falls on one clearly identified material and you want a reliable laboratory result before the renovation goes any further.
Laitila: which materials to check before renovating
In properties completed before 1994 — that is, in a large share of the houses of the 1920s to the 1990s — asbestos was commonly used in floor tiles and their adhesives, in pipe and boiler insulation, in wall and ceiling boards, in fillers, in fixing mortars and in roofing materials. Take the sample from the exact material the renovation touches: an old vinyl floor, the adhesive behind a tile, pipe insulation, a filler, a facade panel or a roofing material. Asbestos cannot be identified reliably by eye, so a laboratory test is the only dependable way to tell an ordinary building material from one that contains asbestos.
Laitila: asbestos sampling by post
Laitila lies outside the area we cover with on-site surveys, so we serve the town with a mail-in asbestos sample instead. You take a small material sample following our instructions, post it to the laboratory and receive the result by email. The price is 39,90 € + VAT per sample. The analysis is carried out with a JEOL SEM-EDS electron microscope in accordance with the ISO 22262-1 standard, so you get a clear statement on whether the material examined contains asbestos.
Asbestos survey or asbestos sample — Laitila
Whenever you are about to start a renovation, check for asbestos first. An asbestos sample costs 39,90 € + VAT, and it is always analysed on the day it reaches us.
Bathroom renovation
In a bathroom, both the wall and the floor material should be checked before the work begins. Take the asbestos sample yourself or order a full asbestos survey.
Kitchen renovation
In a kitchen renovation it is important to check the splashback tiles, and possibly the floor, for asbestos. Take the asbestos sample yourself or order a full asbestos survey.
Does an asbestos survey qualify for the household expenses tax credit?
An asbestos survey does not qualify for the household expenses tax credit.
What happens if you skip the asbestos survey?
If you tear out materials without having them tested and it later turns out that they contained asbestos, you can be held responsible for cleaning up all the asbestos that spread. On top of that, it is a health hazard the person doing the demolition is exposed to.
Doing the asbestos survey yourself
You can do the survey yourself in a simple bathroom, kitchen or floor renovation, provided you know which materials the asbestos sample should be taken from.
What does asbestos smell like?
Asbestos has no smell at all. It cannot be detected by odour.
What we look for in Laitila
Asbestos cannot be identified by eye — only a laboratory analysis gives certainty. The most common asbestos-containing building materials and how to have them tested before a renovation:
Order an asbestos sample — Laitila
Take the sample yourself and post it to us. Results come back fast.
Order from OneLab — 39,90 €