House Renovation

Quick answer: On any Auckland home built before 1 January 2000, the law puts the duty to find asbestos before a renovation starts on the business doing the work, not on you. A refurbishment survey has to happen before demolition day, and what it finds changes your programme, your contract and your budget in that order.

Here is the sentence that derails an otherwise well-run job: “We found something in the ceiling, we’ve had to stop.” It usually arrives on day two, after the skip bin has been delivered and the family has moved in with the in-laws. By then the decision that mattered was made weeks earlier, when somebody either did or did not commission a survey before the price was signed off.

Most of what homeowners read about asbestos is written for people who have already found it. This is written for the stage before that, when you’re still deciding what the job is and who is going to do it. Nearly everything that goes wrong with asbestos on a renovation is a sequencing failure, not a discovery.

Important note: Superior Renovations is a renovation company, not an asbestos surveyor, assessor or removalist. This article explains how the process works so you can plan and question it properly. It is general information, not health and safety advice. Identification and removal are jobs for a competent surveyor and a WorkSafe-licensed removalist, and any building consent or restricted building work question goes to Auckland Council or a Licensed Building Practitioner.

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The Date That Decides Whether Your Renovation Has an Asbestos Problem

There is one number that matters before anything else: 1 January 2000. Under regulation 19 of the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016, the whole demolition-and-refurbishment regime applies to any structure constructed or installed before that date, or any structure where asbestos has been identified, or where it is likely to be present from time to time. Your house doesn’t have to be old. It has to be older than 2000.

That catches far more Auckland housing than people assume. WorkSafe puts it bluntly on its homeowner guidance: if your home was built before 1 January 2000, it may contain asbestos materials. Not villas. Not just the fibro bach. The 1993 brick-and-tile in Flat Bush with the aluminium joinery is on the wrong side of the line too.

How Much of Auckland Sits Before the Line

Stats NZ reports the age of the housing stock using exactly the same boundary. In Housing in Aotearoa New Zealand: 2025, drawing on 2023 Census data, it reports the share of current private dwellings “built from the year 2000 onwards”. The regulatory trigger and the census cut-off are the same date, so the figures can be read straight across.

Auckland has the third-newest housing stock in the country, behind Canterbury on 46.3 percent and Tasman on 43.2 percent. Even so, close to three in five Auckland homes were built before the trigger date. If you’re renovating in Mt Eden, Glendowie, Henderson, Papatoetoe or Takapuna, the odds are that the regulations apply to your job.

Which Decades Actually Carry the Material

Auckland Council records that asbestos was widely used in New Zealand building materials between the 1940s and the mid-1980s, that the industry mostly stopped using it by the late 1980s, and that a total ban on its use came in 2016. It also gives the definition that matters when a lab result comes back: an asbestos-containing material, or ACM, is a material that contains more than 1 percent asbestos.

So the risk is heaviest in the 1940s to mid-1980s stock, thinner in the 1990s, and the law still draws its line at 2000 because “thinner” is not “none”. Materials sat in supply chains and in builders’ sheds for years after manufacturers stopped making them.

💡 Quick tip: Find your home’s build year before you talk to anyone about scope. A property file from Auckland Council, or the year on your LIM, is the single piece of information that tells a builder whether your job carries a survey step at all.

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The Legal Duty Belongs to Your Builder, Not to You

This is the part that almost every homeowner has backwards, and getting it the right way round changes how you read a quote.

WorkSafe’s homeowner guidance sets out the mechanism plainly. If you pay someone to undertake work on asbestos in your home or on your property, it becomes a “workplace” for the duration of the work. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 you are then an “other person at the workplace”. Your obligations are to take reasonable care for your own safety, not to put others at risk, and to follow reasonable instructions from the businesses doing the work. That’s the whole of it.

The heavy duties sit with the PCBU, the person conducting a business or undertaking. In a renovation, that is your builder. Regulation 20 says the PCBU who intends to carry out the refurbishment must not carry it out until the structure has been inspected to determine whether asbestos is present, and must ensure that determination is done by a competent person. If the competent person is uncertain on reasonable grounds, or if part of the structure is inaccessible and likely to be disturbed, the PCBU has to assume asbestos is there. Regulation 26 goes further for houses: a PCBU carrying out refurbishment of a home must ensure all asbestos likely to be disturbed is identified, and, so far as is reasonably practicable, removed before the refurbishment commences.

Both duties carry fines on conviction of up to $10,000 for an individual and $50,000 for any other person. Regulation 20 adds a separate offence, up to $6,000 and $30,000, for failing to tell the owner and the occupier of a home once asbestos is determined or assumed to be present.

“The question I want a homeowner to ask us is not ‘is there asbestos in my house’. It’s ‘when in your process do you find out, and what happens to my price if the answer is yes’. A company that can answer that on the first visit has done this before. A company that goes quiet has priced a job it hasn’t scoped.”
— Dorothy Li, Design Manager, Superior Renovations

None of this means you’re a passenger. You’re the one who commissions the work, so you’re the one who decides whether the survey happens early, when it is cheap and the programme can absorb it, or late, when it is neither. At Superior Renovations the first person you sit with is a designer rather than a salesperson, which is a deliberate choice we made back in 2021 and wrote about in the piece on our design-led model. The practical benefit here is timing. The conversation about which walls are coming out and which linings are being stripped happens at the concept stage, months before anyone lifts a crowbar, and that’s exactly the window a survey belongs in.

💡 Quick tip: Ask any renovation company for the name of the surveyor they use and when in their process the survey is booked. “We’ll deal with it if we find it” is not a process, and it means the risk is sitting in your contingency rather than in their programme.

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Refurbishment or Maintenance? The Line the Regulations Draw

Regulation 19 excludes minor or routine maintenance work from the survey duty. That exclusion is where the arguments happen, so WorkSafe published a technical bulletin setting out the difference, and it is the most useful page in the whole regime for a homeowner.

The definitions it settles on: refurbishment means carrying out work in a building with the emphasis on changing or upgrading it. Maintenance means care or upkeep, planned, routine or urgent, that keeps the building in proper condition or working order, and is incidental work that can be done quickly and safely with minimal control measures. WorkSafe’s own test is to ask what the primary purpose of the work is.

Then it gives worked scenarios. These are WorkSafe’s examples, not our interpretation of them.

The job	WorkSafe’s classification	Survey duty triggered?
Repairing a rotten window frame with similar materials to the original	Maintenance	No
Repairing a rotten window frame with a new frame in different materials, same dimensions	Maintenance	No
Turning a window into a ranch slider, or putting in a much larger window	Refurbishment	Yes
Cutting a small hole into an eave to install a cable	Maintenance	No
Removing and replacing an eave	Refurbishment, generally	Yes
Removing a vinyl tile to install a plumbing fixture	Maintenance	No
Pulling up all the vinyl tiles to replace them	Refurbishment	Yes
Hand-drilling a few holes into a cement sheet to attach a fitting	Maintenance	No
Removing and replacing a cement sheet	Refurbishment	Yes

Read that list against your own scope and the answer is usually obvious. A kitchen or bathroom renovation is refurbishment. You’re not maintaining anything. You’re pulling up the floor covering, taking the linings off, moving services and changing the room. Almost every job that involves taking an older kitchen out and putting a new one in lands squarely on the refurbishment side of that table.

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The Survey You Need Is Not the Cheaper One

There are two kinds of asbestos survey, and quoting the wrong one is a common and expensive mistake. WorkSafe’s good practice guidelines for asbestos surveyors, updated in April 2026, set them out.

Management Survey

A management survey finds and records the location, extent and product type of known or presumed asbestos, so it can be managed safely while the building is occupied and used normally. It involves minor intrusive work. Critically, it allows the presence of asbestos to be presumed in some situations rather than confirmed. It’s the survey a building owner keeps on file.

Refurbishment or Demolition Survey

This is the one a renovation needs. Its purpose is to locate and describe all asbestos materials in the area where the work will happen, in enough detail for a proper risk assessment before the job starts. WorkSafe is explicit that these surveys are intrusive: parts of the structure may need to be disturbed, which means opening wall cavities, lifting carpets, taking up vinyl or removing tiles. And unlike a management survey, all suspected asbestos that may be disturbed must be confirmed by sample testing. It cannot be presumed.

The guidelines also say that if you are refurbishing or demolishing, a refurbishment survey must be done even if a management survey already exists. Any area recorded as “no access” in a previous survey has to be accessed this time, with the right equipment and procedures.

That intrusiveness is why the survey belongs in the design and scoping stage rather than the week before the trades arrive. A surveyor lifting a corner of vinyl in a Papatoetoe laundry in August is a nuisance. The same surveyor doing it in November, with cabinetry on order and a plumber booked, is a delay.

Who Is Allowed to Do It

Only a competent person, meaning someone with the right qualifications and experience. Auckland Council does not provide a testing service to the public and points people to IANZ to find accredited asbestos testing services. Health New Zealand’s guidance for homeowners is firm that a sample tested in an approved analytical laboratory is the most certain way to find out whether a material contains asbestos, and that you should contact a health protection officer at your local public health service before taking a sample yourself.

Important note: Do not sand, drill, cut or water-blast a suspect material to see what is behind it. WorkSafe’s guidance is that fibres are far more likely to be released when material is friable, in poor condition, or disturbed in any way. If you are not sure whether something contains asbestos, treat it as if it does.

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Where It Turns Up in an Auckland Kitchen, Bathroom and Laundry

Ask most people where asbestos lives and they will say the roof or the cladding. In a renovation, the wet areas are where it bites, because that is where you are taking things apart. WorkSafe’s homeowner guidance notes that asbestos cement, sold in New Zealand under names including Fibrolite, was commonly used in wet areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, toilets and laundries, and that asbestos can sit in the backing material behind wall tiles, bath panels and splashbacks.

Where you are working	What WorkSafe lists as a likely location
Kitchen	Wall and ceiling sheeting in wet areas (asbestos cement, for example Fibrolite); backing behind wall tiles and splashbacks; vinyl floor tiles and sheet vinyl, plus the paper backing and the adhesive under them; textured ceiling
Bathroom, toilet and laundry	Wet area lining substrate; bath panel; toilet seat and cistern; linoleum and vinyl sheet backing; sheeting behind tiles
Living areas and hallways	Textured ceilings (WorkSafe names Glamatex and Whisper as examples); ceiling tiles; patching compounds and textured paint; carpet underlay; partition walls; fireplace surrounds
Services	Hot water cupboard lining; insulation around hot water pipes; electrical meter board and older switchboards; water pipes and flues
Exterior and outbuildings	Soffits and the lining under eaves; gutters and downpipes; exterior window flashings; cladding including imitation brick and baseboards; roofing panels such as “Super Six”; garage, carport, shed and fence panels

“People picture a sheet of corrugated roofing. In a bathroom it’s almost never that. It’s the grey board behind the tiles, or the paper backing glued to the floor under three layers of vinyl that somebody laid straight over the last lot in 1988. You don’t see any of it until the room is open, which is precisely why it has to be tested while the room is still shut.”
— Cici Zuo, Designer, Superior Renovations

The layering point is worth sitting with. In older Auckland homes the original floor covering often never came up. New vinyl went over old, then a floating floor went over that. Every one of those layers is a separate material with its own history, and a refurbishment survey has to get to the bottom of the stack. It’s a large part of why lifting old vinyl and rebuilding a wet area from the substrate up takes longer in a 1970s house than the same work in a 2015 townhouse.

Exterior work sits slightly differently. Asbestos-cement cladding, fibro and Super Six roofing bring their own consent consequences on top of the health and safety ones, and we have covered that ground in detail in our guide to whether you can reclad a house without building consent. If your job involves taking the exterior sheeting off, read that one alongside this. It’s the same regulations doing different work on a reclad where the old wall system comes off before the new one goes on.

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What a Positive Result Does to Your Programme

A confirmed result does not stop your renovation. It inserts a sequence of steps in front of it, and every one of them takes calendar time. Here is the order, straight out of the regulations.

Step One: Which Licence Class the Work Falls Into

Under regulation 54, removing any amount of friable asbestos requires a Class A licence. Friable means flaky or powdery, or able to be crumbled by hand. Under regulation 56, removing more than 10 square metres of non-friable asbestos, counted cumulatively across the whole removal project for the site, requires at least a Class B licence. That cumulative wording matters. Four square metres of sheeting in the laundry plus eight in the kitchen is twelve, not two separate small jobs.

You can check any removalist against WorkSafe’s asbestos licence holder register before they quote. It’s a two-minute job, and it’s the single best piece of due diligence available to you.

Step Two: Five Days’ Notice to WorkSafe

Regulation 34 requires a licensed removalist to give written notice to WorkSafe at least five days before licensed removal work starts. There are narrow exceptions for sudden and unexpected events. For a planned renovation, there are none. Those five days are a fixed block in your programme that no amount of goodwill compresses.

Step Three: The Control Plan and the Neighbours

The removalist prepares an asbestos removal control plan setting out the process and the controls, and under the regulations they contact your neighbours to let them know the work is happening. If you are on a shared driveway in Grey Lynn or a cross-lease section in Remuera, this is a conversation worth having yourself first rather than letting a letterbox drop do it for you.

Step Four: Clearance Before Anyone Goes Back In

This is the step people forget when they build a timeline. Regulation 41 requires a clearance inspection once licensed removal is finished. Where the workplace is a home, the licensed removalist commissioned by you must ensure it happens. For Class A work it must be carried out by an independent licensed asbestos assessor; for other cases, an independent competent person. Regulation 42 then requires a written clearance certificate before the area is reoccupied, and the assessor cannot issue one unless the area is free of visible contamination and, where air monitoring was done, the respirable fibre level does not exceed trace level.

Until that certificate exists, nobody re-enters. Not the tiler, not the electrician, not you to have a look. On a job where the trades are booked back to back, one clearance inspection sitting in the wrong place can push a fortnight through the whole programme.

💡 Quick tip: Ask for the clearance certificate to be handed to you, not just filed by the builder. It is a written record that the area was safe to reoccupy on a given date, with the assessor’s name, qualifications and contact details on it. Keep it with your other handover documents, alongside the paperwork we set out in our guide to looking after a renovated home.

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The Money Question, and Why Nobody Can Answer It From a Photo

We publish cost ranges for renovation work across this site and we’re comfortable doing it, because we price that work. We’re not going to publish a single number for asbestos removal, because there isn’t an honest one. The variables are the material type, whether it is friable or bonded, the total area across the site, how accessible it is, whether an enclosure is needed, and what the disposal run looks like. Two identical-looking Henderson bathrooms can be a long way apart.

What we can tell you is what the line items are, so you can read a quote properly:

• The refurbishment survey, priced by the surveyor, usually as a site visit plus a charge per sample sent to the laboratory.
• Laboratory analysis, charged per sample. The number of samples is driven by the number of distinct materials, not by the size of the room.
• Licensed removal, quoted by the removalist against their control plan, and priced on area, friability and access rather than on hours.
• Clearance inspection and certificate, from an independent assessor or competent person, which by law cannot be the same business that did the removal for Class A work.
• Disposal, which is its own cost in Auckland for a reason covered below.
• Programme cost, which is the one nobody itemises. Five days’ notice, the removal itself, and the clearance step all sit in front of the trades you have already booked.

For the wider picture of where renovation budgets actually go, our breakdown of the most expensive part of a renovation covers hidden conditions in pre-1990 Auckland homes and carries our published range for this work. And because a mid-job discovery is a variation, not a surprise, how your contract treats hidden conditions decides who wears it. That’s set out in our guide to what to get in writing before you sign a renovation contract.

Disposal Is an Auckland-Specific Problem

This one catches people out. Auckland Council states plainly that transfer stations in Auckland do not accept asbestos, that its staff and contractors will not collect items they think contain asbestos, and that this includes items put out for inorganic collections. Council’s advice is to use a professional asbestos removal company to dispose of it and to find one through WorkSafe’s register.

So the skip bin sitting on your driveway isn’t a solution, and neither is the inorganic collection. Asbestos waste leaves your property with the licensed removalist, to an authorised disposal site, and that logistics chain is part of what you are paying for.

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Renovating a Rental Changes Your Position Entirely

If the property is an investment, stop reading this as a homeowner. WorkSafe’s policy clarification for residential landlords is direct: a landlord is the PCBU for the rental property. Under HSWA they must ensure that work carried out at the property, whether by themselves or by another business, is done safely and without endangering workers or others, including tenants.

The clarification uses a scenario that will sound familiar. A landlord plans to refurbish the kitchen and bathroom of a rental property of an age and type likely to contain asbestos. WorkSafe’s position is that before the refurbishment begins, the landlord must ensure all asbestos in the kitchen and bathroom is identified and removed so far as is reasonably practicable, and must prepare an asbestos management plan before work begins. A surveyor or assessor can help prepare the plan. The landlord and the removalist then work together to make sure removal is done in accordance with the regulations.

That’s a materially heavier position than an owner-occupier’s, and it is worth building into the numbers before you commit. Our guide to renovating rental and investment properties in New Zealand covers the wider compliance picture for landlords.

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Why This Is Getting More Attention, Not Less

On 17 April 2026 WorkSafe published an updated suite of asbestos guidance, developed with the industry and split into targeted resources for surveyors, removalists, assessors, tradespeople and general businesses. In announcing it, WorkSafe chief executive Sharon Thompson said: “Asbestos remains the number one cause of work-related death in New Zealand, with approximately 220 people dying from asbestos-related disease each year.”

The 2016 approved code of practice for the management and removal of asbestos stays in place. WorkSafe has said it anticipates that three of the new good practice guidelines, covering surveys, removal and assessments, will be developed into updated codes of practice once the health and safety reforms progress. The updates already made include changes to surface testing requirements for clearance inspections, the exclusion of swabs during surveys, exposure monitoring requirements, and clearer definitions around asbestos-containing dust and minor contamination.

The practical read for a homeowner: the guidance your builder and surveyor are working to changed this year, and the direction of travel is more detail, not less. A company that can tell you which guidance it works to is a company that has read it.

Seven Questions Worth Asking Before Anyone Swings a Hammer

1. Was my house built before 1 January 2000? If yes, the regulations apply to refurbishment work here.
2. Is my scope refurbishment or maintenance? Hold it against WorkSafe’s scenario table above.
3. Who is commissioning the refurbishment survey, and when? Concept stage, not demolition week.
4. Is it a refurbishment survey, not a management survey? Only one of them confirms rather than presumes.
5. Is the removalist licensed for the class of work? Check the WorkSafe register yourself.
6. Who issues the clearance certificate, and is that business independent of the removalist?
7. What does my contract say happens to price and programme if something is found? Ask before you sign, not after.

None of these questions require you to know anything about asbestos. They require the person quoting your job to know something about it, and their answers will tell you quickly whether they do.

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Test Early, Because Late Is the Only Expensive Version

The homes we spend most of our time in are exactly the ones this applies to: the 1920s Greenhithe bungalow with a bathroom that has been made over twice, the Epsom character home with layers of history in every wall, the Mangere family home that has been in one family for forty years. Older Auckland housing is good housing. It’s also housing built in a period when this material was ordinary, and the only sensible response is to look before you open it.

Doing that costs a site visit and a handful of laboratory samples at the stage where your project is still drawings. Not doing it costs a stopped site, a re-sequenced programme and a conversation about who pays, at the stage where your kitchen is in a container and your family is somewhere else. We would rather run the whole strip-out through one team that scopes it before the price is signed off, which is what our design and build process at 16B Link Drive, Wairau Valley is set up to do.

Sound familiar? If you’re looking at an older Auckland home and wondering what is behind the linings, that question belongs at the start of the conversation. Not on day two.

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Do I need an asbestos test before renovating in NZ?

If your home was built before 1 January 2000 and the work is refurbishment rather than minor maintenance, yes. Regulation 20 of the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 says the business carrying out the work must not start until the structure has been inspected by a competent person to determine whether asbestos is present. Regulation 26 adds that asbestos likely to be disturbed must be identified and, so far as reasonably practicable, removed before refurbishment of a home commences.

Who is legally responsible for asbestos in my home renovation?

The PCBU doing the work, which in a renovation is your builder. WorkSafe explains that when you pay someone to work on asbestos in your home it becomes a workplace, and you become an other person at the workplace, with duties limited to taking reasonable care and following reasonable instructions. The survey, identification and removal duties sit with the business, not with you as the homeowner.

What is the difference between a management survey and a refurbishment survey?

A management survey records asbestos so it can be managed while a building is used normally, and it can presume asbestos is present in some situations. A refurbishment or demolition survey is what a renovation needs. It is intrusive, it covers all asbestos likely to be disturbed in the work area, and every suspected material must be confirmed by sample testing rather than presumed. WorkSafe requires a refurbishment survey even where a management survey already exists.

Is my 1990s house too new to have asbestos?

No. The regulatory trigger is 1 January 2000, not the 1980s. Auckland Council records that asbestos was widely used in New Zealand building materials from the 1940s to the mid-1980s and that the industry mostly stopped by the late 1980s, but stock remained in circulation. Materials containing more than 1 percent asbestos are classed as asbestos-containing materials, and a 1990s home still sits inside the regulated period.

How much asbestos can be removed without a licence in New Zealand?

Removing any amount of friable asbestos requires a Class A licence under regulation 54. Removing more than 10 square metres of non-friable asbestos requires at least a Class B licence under regulation 56, and that 10 square metres is counted cumulatively across the whole removal project for the site, not room by room. You can verify any removalist on WorkSafe's asbestos licence holder register before they quote.

Is a kitchen or bathroom renovation classed as refurbishment or maintenance?

Refurbishment. WorkSafe's technical bulletin defines refurbishment as work with the emphasis on changing or upgrading a building, and maintenance as routine upkeep that keeps it in working order. Its own examples put pulling up all the vinyl tiles on the refurbishment side, while lifting one tile to install a plumbing fixture is maintenance. A kitchen or bathroom renovation changes the room, so the survey duty applies.

Where is asbestos most likely to be found in an older Auckland kitchen or bathroom?

WorkSafe lists asbestos cement sheeting, sold under names including Fibrolite, as common in wet areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, toilets and laundries. It also names the backing material behind wall tiles, bath panels and splashbacks; vinyl floor tiles and sheet vinyl along with the paper backing and adhesive beneath them; textured ceilings such as Glamatex and Whisper; hot water cupboard linings; and electrical meter boards.

How long does asbestos removal add to a renovation timeline?

Plan for weeks rather than days, and build it into the programme rather than hoping to absorb it. A licensed removalist must give WorkSafe written notice at least five days before licensed removal work begins under regulation 34. On top of that sit the survey and laboratory turnaround, the removal itself, and a clearance inspection. Nobody can reoccupy the area until a written clearance certificate has been issued under regulation 42.

Can I put asbestos in a skip or take it to an Auckland transfer station?

No. Auckland Council states that transfer stations in Auckland do not accept asbestos, and that council staff and contractors will not collect items they think contain asbestos, including anything put out for inorganic collections. Council's advice is to use a professional asbestos removal company for disposal and to find one through WorkSafe's licence holder register. Asbestos waste must go to an authorised disposal site.

What is a clearance certificate and do I need a copy?

It is the written confirmation that an area is safe to reoccupy after licensed asbestos removal. Regulation 41 requires a clearance inspection, carried out by an independent licensed assessor for Class A work or an independent competent person otherwise. Regulation 42 requires a written certificate before reoccupation, naming the assessor and confirming no visible residue. Ask for a copy and keep it with your handover documents.

Do landlords have extra asbestos duties when renovating a rental?

Yes. WorkSafe's policy clarification treats a residential landlord as the PCBU for the rental property. Using its own example of refurbishing the kitchen and bathroom of a rental likely to contain asbestos, the landlord must ensure all asbestos is identified and removed so far as reasonably practicable before the refurbishment begins, and must prepare an asbestos management plan before work starts. A surveyor or assessor can help prepare that plan.

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Further Resources for your Auckland renovation

1. Featured projects and Client stories to see specifications on some of the projects.
2. Real client stories from Auckland
3. What a full renovation of a 1970s brick-and-tile Auckland home actually involves
4. How your cover changes while the work runs: renovation insurance in NZ

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References

1. Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 (LI 2016/15) — New Zealand Legislation
2. WorkSafe New Zealand — Asbestos in the home
3. WorkSafe New Zealand — Where asbestos can be found
4. WorkSafe New Zealand — Conducting asbestos surveys: good practice guidelines
5. WorkSafe New Zealand — Technical bulletin: asbestos, refurbishment versus maintenance
6. WorkSafe New Zealand — Updated asbestos guidance now available (17 April 2026)
7. WorkSafe New Zealand — Policy clarification: what residential landlords need to do to manage asbestos
8. WorkSafe New Zealand — Asbestos licence holder registers
9. Auckland Council — Asbestos
10. Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora — Asbestos in the home
11. Stats NZ — Housing in Aotearoa New Zealand: 2025
12. International Accreditation New Zealand (IANZ)