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I thought it looked about an inch thick. No longer near it and can’t access it anymore as not my garden. More of a restrospective question!

With which part?

Found next to some paving slabs under a bush in a garden (not mine). It’s got inverted dimples in it so was wondering if anyone would be concerned that it’s asbestos cement? Or is it simply a bit of paving slab...?

Have damaged undercloaking on my garage - house built in 2003 so am assuming it’s safe and asbestos free HOWEVER have heard of old stock being used and houses post 1999 containing ACMs. It’s an estate built house though as assume this would not be the case? Does anyone know when undercloaking...

Thanks for the reply. What do late 60s houses with integral garages usually have as the ceiling in the garage? And to a professional AIB and plasterboard are obviously different?

Hi I’m after some advice from more knowledgeable people than me. Someone I know and stay with regularly has entirely renovated a late 1960s house. The house has an integral garage, the ceiling of which was removed during the renovations with new fire retardant boards put in in line with...

So this could be amosite? From pictures I've seen the visible fibre bundles are also very straight

Thanks newboy. I get extremely anxious about asbestos - apparently a funny thing on this board. But I'm a mother with young children who had lost a close family member to mesothelioma. The AIB was removed professionally and a certificate of reoccupation issued the previous week. Im thinking...

So thanks for the really kind replies. I understand there is asbestos all around us but I am not happy about the prospect of it being in that amount in my house with my children. I'm after someone with knowledge who can tell me if AIB debris is likely to look like that?

Would be grateful for any other opinions

No idea if they were collected from the porch or within the house (or the supernarket that was visited on the way home). I've noticed them due to being majorly fearful of asbestos as we lost a family member to it not long ago. But trying to rationalise it by thinking that surely they wouldn't...

So is it possible, that after an enclosed removal of asbestos that this many fibres would stay close together and not have any other material attached to them. Trying to work out if this would concern others?

went to a house recently where they'd had asbestos insulation board removed in a porch the week before. Done by a professional company in enclosure with 4 stage clearance procedure done by anslyst etc. I have massive worries about asbestos and wouldn't have taken my kids there had I known...

When our old downstairs toilet was removed in our 1930s semi and old pipe which had been concreted in was ground down by the plumber. You can just see the old pipe in the ground at the base of the new plastic soil pipe in this pic and the concrete (or cement!) around it. The old pipe seems to be...

Just that really. I have lath and plaster ceilings in my house and one ceiling is starting to crack in places. The house was bought off an investor and re plastered throughout. I phoned him and asked him if there had previously been artexed ceilings (wanting to be informed in case the ceiling...

I don't have any pictures to hand and as am not living in the house at the moment. But it's definitely damp. It's not only by the fire place it's in several random locations which include both internal walls and external walls.

We have had an extension done on our 1930s house last year. The whole house has been renovated and decorated inside also. Just as we're about to move back in and we've discovered damp patches in the lounge and the hall. They are just above the skirting boards by the fire place, around a light...

I have had an extension done on my house and the knock through obviously created a lot of dust. What are the chances that the external walls would have contained asbestos? I'm thinking if they did it would have been in some sort of a sheet form (aib / cement) and the builders world have spotted...

An external wall was knocked down and a window upstairs as made into a door into new section of house. So builders would have spotted any panelling etc that could have contained asbestos in the knocking down process?

Do people tend to have asbestos testing before walls are knocked down? We didn't and the builders didn't mention it. I live in a 30s house. What are the chances they could have missed some in the wall that was knocked down (would AIB have been easy to spot for example? Or do they just go for it...