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Thank you both so much, again! @jeds , the reason for my wife’s concern is that we used to find white dust settling underneath, and the white cement was visibly crumbling, and our young children would occasionally be near the area. The fireplace is now boarded up, but she’s got it into her head...

Thank you both, that’s really helpful. Can I just clarify then (trying to put my wife’s mind at rest here…), fire cement didn’t contain asbestos and @^woody^ , we’re not looking at the asbestos putty or paste that you mention? If it’s relevant, the house is approx 1910s, but I have no idea at...

I know that you can’t tell from a picture, but this relates to something in the past and we can’t access this to test now. I’m basically just curious and totally clueless so having trouble finding an answer on google - but was asbestos cement used in fireplaces to surround a flue pipe like in...