Asbestos

[MuBuPlu]

Hi.

Not sure where to put this thread.

My partner and I have moved into an old Victorian house that needs renovating.

We're in the process of throwing out the carpet.

I'm now worried that we've been too hasty and have exposed something we shouldn't have.

There is dust under carpet lining under the old carpets. It's above the floorboards, which we've exposed. Do I need to be concerned about this dust?

Thanks.

 

[MuBuPlu]

Here is the dust

 

[MuBuPlu]

And this was under the carpet in the dining room. Vinyl like underlay?

 

[^woody^]

Carpet dust? No asbestos in carpet or underlay

 

[MuBuPlu]

Thanks.

Some paper underlay and vinyl underlay under the carpets. There wouldn't be any in those?

Thanks.

 

[davidpeters]

http://asbestosglobal.org/asbestos-in-carpets/

 

[^woody^]

http://asbestosglobal.org/asbestos-in-carpets/

Why are you linking to a foreign site that has no relevance to the UK?

 

[^woody^]

Thanks.

Some paper underlay and vinyl underlay under the carpets. There wouldn't be any in those?

Thanks.

No

 

[lostinthelight]

Its a foam backed carpet where the backing has gone hard and disintegrated ,we had quite a few rooms with the same dust under the carpets in high wear areas. second picture looks like old lino?
litl

 

[cjard]

I've an area of my garage that is covered with vinyl tiles, minging red things about 10inch square. They apparently contain asbestos. So too does R the toilet cistern and a strange large black smear of tarry substance on the wall.. I console myself knowing that the average person who led a good clean life dies with around 100.000 asbesfos fibres in their lungs.

 

[davidpeters]

Why are you linking to a foreign site that has no relevance to the UK?

How do you know it has no relevance to the UK?

 

[chappers]

I've an area of my garage that is covered with vinyl tiles, minging red things about 10inch square. They apparently contain asbestos. So too does R the toilet cistern and a strange large black smear of tarry substance on the wall.. I console myself knowing that the average person who led a good clean life dies with around 100.000 asbesfos fibres in their lungs.

HSE no longer consider the normal, manual removal of tiles like this and artex hazardous. They suggest a simple respirator as more than adequate with steaming the preferred option for artex.
However they do still consider the waste hazardous.

 

[^woody^]

How do you know it has no relevance to the UK?

Because it isn't. It's quite simple.

 

[^woody^]

HSE no longer consider the normal, manual removal of tiles like this and artex hazardous.

That's not correct. They consider it less hazardous than working on other types of ACM, and therefore allow non-licenced contractor's to work on it.

But break the guidance rules, and they will treat it just the same of they prosecute.

 

[chappers]

You are correct but as they have essentially downgraded it to non-notifiable, those issues would probably only apply if you were a contractor operating outside of the non-notifiable limits.