How Much Does Asbestos Fence Removal Cost in Melbourne?
Asbestos fence removal in Melbourne is from $1,200, roughly $90–$160 per metre including GST. Length, access and the condition of the sheeting move the figure, and your free on-site quote confirms a fixed price.Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts.
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Small jobs from around $1,200. Get a fixed price at your free on-site quote, with no surprises.
Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts.
How fence quotes are built
Fence removal is priced by length and condition. For a fibre-cement fence in fair shape with reasonable access, the guide is from $1,200, roughly $90–$160 per metre. Every figure is confirmed on site, because access and condition vary from yard to yard.
Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts.
Short fences can cost slightly more per metre, because set-up, transport and clearance do not shrink with the fence. Ask for the whole job priced, not a rate multiplied by a tape measure.
What pushes a quote up
Hand-carry access, brittle or storm-damaged sheets, buried fragments along the fence line, capping and concrete footings all add time. Where fragments have worked into garden beds, extra clean-up may be needed.
Fences are on the Better Health Channel list of common asbestos locations in Victorian homes, alongside eaves, cladding, roofing and wet-area linings. Our fence removal page explains how the work is done.
Read the Victorian home asbestos guidanceShared boundaries and cheap quotes
If the fence is on a shared boundary, talk to your neighbour early and agree who pays for what in writing. Fencing law in Victoria has its own rules, so check the current guidance before work starts.
Be wary of cash quotes from unlicensed operators. In March 2023, WorkSafe Victoria reported a demolition company was fined $25,500 plus $3,999 in costs after asbestos sheeting at a Watsonia North home was loaded into a skip with an excavator. Correct disposal is part of the real price.
Read the WorkSafe Victoria reportPrices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts.
Fence price guide, including GST
| Job | Price guide (inc GST) |
|---|---|
| Fence removal | From $1,200 Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts. |
| Per metre, typical | Roughly $90–$160 per metre Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts. |
| Independent clearance | Quoted on site, included in every removal quote Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts. |
| Replacement fence | Quoted on site by a fencing contractor Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts. |
More than one asbestos job on the property? Book them for the same visit and you only need one independent clearance inspection, so you are not paying for a separate clearance on every job.
All prices include GST. Independent clearance is quoted on site and included in every removal quote, alongside removal, wrapping, transport and disposal.
Prices are a guide only and depend on size, access and condition. Your free on-site quote gives you a fixed price before any work starts.
Some advertised rates leave out disposal, cartage or clearance. Ask every removalist what the quote covers and compare the full total instead of the headline figure.
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