Asbestos sample in Suonenjoki
If you are renovating in Suonenjoki or elsewhere in North Savo and need certainty about asbestos, we offer the lowest asbestos sample prices in Finland. Results as soon as the next day.
Suonenjoki 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.
Suonenjoki is known throughout Finland as the strawberry parish, and this town of about 6,500 residents lies in North Savo, a good 50 kilometres from Kuopio. Settlement is concentrated around the church village and the railway station, and the town's territory also includes the industrial and built-up area of Iisvesi along with numerous rural villages. Neighbouring municipalities include Rautalampi to the west and Pieksämäki to the south. Suonenjoki was granted market town rights in 1967 and was elevated to a town in 1977, so a large share of its building stock went up between the 1920s and the early 1990s. It is in exactly this kind of pre-1994 house that asbestos typically appears in many building materials, such as floor tiles and their adhesives, pipe insulation, wall and ceiling boards, and fillers and mortars. Anyone planning renovation or demolition work is therefore well advised to confirm the composition of the materials in advance. Because Suonenjoki lies outside our actual survey area, we serve the locality with a mail-in asbestos sample (39,90 € plus VAT). The sample is reliably analysed with a JEOL SEM-EDS electron microscope in accordance with the ISO 22262-1 standard.
Suonenjoki: when to take an asbestos sample
Suonenjoki is known throughout Finland as the strawberry parish, and this town of about 6,500 residents lies in North Savo, a good 50 kilometres from Kuopio. Settlement is concentrated around the church village and the railway station, and the town's territory also includes the industrial and built-up area of Iisvesi along with numerous rural villages. 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.
Suonenjoki: which materials to check before renovating
It is in exactly this kind of pre-1994 house that asbestos typically appears in many building materials, such as floor tiles and their adhesives, pipe insulation, wall and ceiling boards, and fillers and mortars. 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.
Suonenjoki: asbestos sampling by post
Suonenjoki 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 — Suonenjoki
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 Suonenjoki
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 — Suonenjoki
Take the sample yourself and post it to us. Results come back fast.
Order from OneLab — 39,90 €