Asbestos removal in Sale, Maffra and Wellington Shire

The housing and farm buildings you'll find here

Sale's post-war housing and the older streets of Maffra, Heyfield and Stratford carry the usual mix: fibro eaves and wet areas on brick veneers, fibro sleepouts, super six garage and shed roofs, some fully fibro cottages. The Macalister Irrigation District's dairies and machinery sheds are large asbestos cement buildings, many still in daily use.

Coastal Wellington, from Loch Sport to Golden Beach and Seaspray, has fibro holiday houses similar to Bass Coast's, often weathered and brittle.

Disposal in Wellington Shire

The only facility in Wellington Shire licensed for domestic asbestos is Kilmany Resource Recovery Centre on Velore Road, Kilmany, by prior arrangement on 1300 366 244. Maffra Landfill does not take it, and commercial loads are refused, so a removalist's load goes to an EPA-licensed facility elsewhere. Wrap and label to the same standard as the neighbouring councils and ring before you drive. East Gippsland's Bairnsdale Landfill takes asbestos by appointment with 24 hours' notice on 03 5152 6535 and is the nearest option for the eastern end of the shire. Any load removed by a licensed removalist, or from a farm or business, goes to an EPA-licensed facility, and the removalist arranges it.

Asbestos removal Sale and Maffra: how a licensed job runs

• Send photos through the form, and we keep your job on file and your details with us. For a holiday house, a key or a neighbour works.

If you engage a licensed removalist:

• Written quote with the licence class, WorkSafe notification, disposal destination and clearance.
• WorkSafe is notified before the job starts: at least five days ahead for friable material or more than 10 square metres of bonded sheeting, at least 24 hours ahead for a smaller bonded job.
• Wet, whole, wrapped, loaded once. On a dairy, staged around milking.
• A clearance certificate from an independent person where the job needs one (friable, or over 10 square metres), then your roofer, fencer or builder.

Common Wellington jobs

• Dairy and hay shed roofs on the irrigation district. See farm and commercial.
• Eaves and wet areas in Sale renovations.
• Fibro holiday houses on the Ninety Mile Beach being rebuilt.
• Fences and shed roofs in Maffra and Heyfield.
• Fire damage in the foothills after bad summers. See storm and fire damage.

Getting the site ready

Clear a run from the job to the road for a truck, move anything you want to keep out of a shed the day before, and keep animals away. On a dairy, tell the crew about power lines and the state of the track after rain, and they'll plan the roof around milking. For a holiday house on the Ninety Mile Beach, arrange a key or a neighbour and make sure the water is on; the crew needs it to wet the sheets down.

What a proper quote includes here

The area measured rather than guessed, the licence class the job needs, the WorkSafe notification, where the waste is going, and whether a clearance is included. In Wellington the disposal line matters, because Kilmany takes homeowner loads only and a removalist's load goes to an EPA-licensed facility elsewhere. If a quote doesn't say where the sheets end up, ask.

RAAF, Esso and the Ninety Mile: Sale's three building waves

The first wave is the RAAF. Two bases went in during the war, East Sale opening on 22 April 1943, and the housing shortage they caused was still acute in 1946. East Sale was made permanent, the Central Flying School moved there in 1947, Sale became a city in 1950, and the population went from 5,119 in 1947 to 8,708 in 1966 as subdivisions pushed past the old town boundary.

The second is oil and gas. After the 1965 Bass Strait discovery, Esso built homes for its executives and engineers while the Housing Commission built for the workforce; the Gutheridge (1961) and Arulen (1971) primary schools mark where the growth was, and the 1960s and 70s laid courts and crescents over the old grid. Esso left in 1994. A house from that stretch has the standard kit: fibro eaves and wet areas, a fibro-lined garage, a super six shed.

The third is the coast. About 11,800 small blocks along the Ninety Mile Beach were sold between 1955 and 1969. Loch Sport got mains power only in 1980 and by 1991 had 1,188 dwellings with 315 permanently occupied. Golden Beach and Paradise Beach were sold in the late 1950s as "Victoria's Riviera", got power in 1971, and in 2011 had 568 dwellings with 164 occupied. The shacks that got built are fibro weekenders, salt-weathered and mostly empty in winter.

Kilmany's fee, and the Aberfeldy fire

Kilmany's published fee from 1 July 2025 is $100 a tonne with a $100 minimum. It sits under the council's commercial fee heading, so confirm the domestic charge when you book on 1300 366 244. Ring first. The Heyfield, Stratford, Loch Sport, Seaspray, Yarram and Dargo transfer stations don't take it either.

The Aberfeldy fire started on 17 January 2013 and ran 43 days over 87,000 hectares; it destroyed 22 homes around Seaton, Dawson and Glenmaggie plus dwellings at the Glenmaggie Caravan Park. A burnt fibro house is usually a Class A site: fire can take the cement out of asbestos cement, and sheeting that then crumbles by hand meets the regulations' definition of friable. A Class A removalist decides on site, and nobody walks the block until they have. If the material is broken, burnt or storm-damaged and you need someone today, WorkSafe Victoria's directory lists licensed removalists who can help straight away. Find one. The insurer is told before the quote is booked. Councils sometimes waive tip fees after a major event; ask before paying.

Maffra, Heyfield and Stratford

Asbestos removal Maffra, Heyfield or Stratford would reasonably be covered by whoever takes on Sale, once a removalist is confirmed; the towns are twenty minutes apart and the dairy country between them has plenty of fibro sheds and older farmhouses. Loch Sport and the lakes side are the same, with the travel named in the quote once you have one.

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