asbestos

Hey, I’ve recently been doing a rewire on our house and all the walls are dot & dabbed and the interior walls upstairs are simply 3 layers of plasterboard (the middle being slightly thicker). I’ve been cutting out the sockets and switches no problem until one switch I started cutting was a...

my bathroom ceiling was a bit mouldy, so i painted it white. i think it had got so damp and mouldy that some of the ceiling near to the extractor had cracked and fallen off - I'm worried it could be asbestos. what do people think? please see pictures. the house was built in 1971 in ellesmere...

Hi, Has anyone ever come across this? I have what I originally thought was an old boiler flu. But it doesn’t go up to the ceiling above. Instead it appears to be support for the joist of the house. I’ve included two photos. The one with the brickwork is the top of the support / pillar where...

I haven't got a clue what asbestos looks like but the misses had a freak out when I pulled up the floorboards in our Victorian home. Anyone care to enlighten us on whether this is just an accumulation of years of crap or whether it actually looks like asbestos to you?

Working in crawlspace at the minute to insulate floors and pipes. Current pipes have this felt type lagging around it and I'm quite hesitant to disturb it. Question is... do you reckon it's Asbestos or not? Pipe Lagging 01 by costley posted 8 May 2019 at 11:05 AM Pipe Lagging 02 by costley...

Have removed some fitted wardrobes. Seems there is a section of the exterior wall that is boarded rather than solid as per rest. It’s a Victorian House. Can any tell from pic below if this is asbestos sheet?

Hello, we have recently purchases a house that was built in the 50s and have had an asbestos survey done. The survey has revealed that the bitumen in the kitchen/diner area contains asbestos (Chrysotile)….. please advise on what I should do now. I really want to pull the grotty lino up but...

Can anybody help ID this board I have lining the interior walls of my house. Essentially I want to know if I’m dealing with asbestos or not. House is two hundred years old so from an age perspective it could be asbestos based. It is tough as nails, breaks cleanly (although needing an almighty...

Here's a bit of a legal poser. 8 years ago I bought (paid for, proof of purchase retained) a pre-fab garage with a corrugated roof. The builder (this info could be relevant?) who sold it to me said it was acquired by him as part of a site, used for his storage, and surplus to requirements, and...

Hi, we have inherited an old house (nearly 200yrs old) and are selling it. A potential buyer had a survey done and the surveyor says there is evidence of asbestos, so the buyer's mortgage lender wants it tested and professionally removed. My brother says it is a small piece of Asbestolux...

Hi I'm buying a 1930s semi detached house which I plan to do some building work on. I'm wondering whether it would be wise to get an asbestos survey before buying the house. However the house has a conservatory that was built around 10 years ago which would have involved removing an external...

Hi all So ive done loads of research after discovering I could have asbestos tiles under our carpet throughout downstairs. We are awaiting test results. At this point I'm not naive about it nor fearful of it. Ive decided if its confirmed as asbestos that Ill encapsulate it and be done with it...

We decided today to decorate our landing and, on removing the wallpaper from one wall we were met with these tiles: Walltiles1 by martindp84 posted 7 Jan 2018 at 8:13 PM We decided to remove them to replace with modern plasterboard and only half way through did it occur to us that they might...

Hi, So a month ago we moved into a house built in 1991. Ceilings are artex so fine as long as not disturbed but in order to upgrade extractor fans and lighting the electrician removed the old extractor fan/shower switch in the bathrooms leaving an exposed hole. Tonight our painter and...

I am in the process of removing a partition wall which after some research appears to be a paramount partition. It has a cardboard egg box like structure between 2 sheets of plasterboard inside. On inspection, there seems to be a textured coating on the inside on the plasterboard sheets (see...

Hi all So i just finished fitting a new door handle lock and mid way through the question popped into my mind whether the door panel board was asbestos or not??! i think it's some kind of softboard but i'm a tad bit worried... Can anyone confirm from these images? Thanks in advance

Hi Just doing some internal renovation, and wondering could this be asbestos plasterboard ceiling? The extension is a 2 storey with a flat roof. The internal garage below the room had an asbestos ceiling (guessing for fire proofing), but we had this removed as part of the garage conversion a...

I am looking for a bit of advice around our garage roof and structure in general. We have a larger than average sized single skin detached garage at the bottom of our garden which currently has an asbestos roof which we are looking to remove. (I know un-disturbed this is ok, but this is just...

I recently had a survey done on a house we are looking to buy. The report on the ceiling said this: "Ceilings are of plasterboard. A textured finish has been applied to some ceilings. It is now known that such finishes may contain low levels of asbestos. These appear to be in satisfactory...

Hello everyone, I am planning to start using an old fireplace and I am a little worried that the mortar lining around the chimney and on the back wall could contain asbestos. It is fairly brittle and it didn't take very much for a piece of the lining to come off unintentionally when I was...