Hi, I could really use some advice please Last summer I signed a five year lease on a commercial property. My own stipulation was that it didn't leak or flood after being in two weeks it did leak, feel conned, but that's not the worst of it. The leak was due to a crack in what looked like old corrugated asbestos sheets, I asked my landlord if they were asbestos & he said no they definitely weren't & that if I got a handyman to fix them he'd pay. I used the guy who had just moved me into the shop. I asked him if he thought they were concrete or asbestos & he said its just concrete, I went online to look at pictures but I couldn't tell the difference. later that week he replaced the broken panels using a circular saw amongst other tools. Fast farward to Dec 2017 & the other leak on the roof was still leaking the landlord got a roofer in for a quote, it was £450 which I thought was a lot for an afternoons work. Silly me trusting people.. It wasn't until the second roofer came & quoted the landlord £250 that the penny dropped, I asked the roofer why it was so expensive & he told me its because its asbestos. The landlord then came in to tell me he was going to have the work done that Thursday, while I'm open to the public, I wouldn't allow it, I said it was asbestos! it had to be sorted out in line with government guidlines etc. I contacted HSE who said they would write to him & remind him of his responsibilities. And that's it...The work hasn't been done, now the landlord has denied having anything to do with having the work done by the handyman in 2017, blatantly lying about it, and has told me I must pay for the two sheets disposing of. In between all this (Jan 2018) he had a company come in to take sample's but I don't know the outcome. Both my customers & myself were exposed to the asbestos in 2017 for sure as he used power tools. He's totally denying everything, im so angry & confused. Ps, this isn't about me getting out if my lease, I'd like to stay there but the landlord has turned nasty.