Belgium
Asbestos test in Brussels
Planning to renovate a Brussels town house or apartment? Post a material sample to our laboratory and receive the analysis by email on the day it arrives.
How it works
Asbestos analysis in Brussels in three steps
Order the analysis
Order online and pay by card. You receive instructions for taking and sending the sample by email.
Take the sample and send it
Remove a piece of the material, seal it tightly and send it from Brussels as a letter or small parcel with your national postal service to our laboratory.
Get the result
We examine the sample with the electron microscope and email you the result the same day it arrives at our laboratory.
Why Semlab
Asbestos analysis for you in Brussels
Town houses and 1960s apartment blocks
Brussels is known for its narrow row houses, many dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside the apartment blocks and office buildings that went up in large numbers from the 1950s onwards. Asbestos was a common building material across Belgium for decades, and even the Berlaymont, the European Commission headquarters, had to be cleared of it. In an ordinary home the usual suspects are smaller: vinyl floor tiles and their adhesive, textured coatings, boiler-room boards and asbestos-cement panels.
Before the builders arrive
Many Brussels houses have been divided into flats or extended over the years, so different parts of the same building can contain materials from very different decades. Before you open up a floor, a ceiling or a bathroom wall, make a list of what will be removed and take one sample per material. If several flats in the building are being renovated, give each sample a clear name with the flat, room and material so the results stay easy to use.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about an asbestos test in Brussels
Order an asbestos analysis in Brussels
Order online, post the sample and get the result the same day it arrives at the laboratory.