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[Nejko]

Hey all,

some time ago I removed “gysum” panels from the walls. The wooden frame was directly screwd on stone wall, inside was foam and everything covered with “gypsum” panels. The stone wall was covered with them in 1982. The panels are 11 cm thick. One side is smooth and covered with white wall paint, another (inside) side is not smooth and have compressed some pattern. When you break it they are grey and fluffy inside with white fibres.
Last weeks I am so anxiety and panicking because I found that they could be asbestos. I removing them with two FFP2 mask each on other, but that is not enough for asbestos I think.
I am in panick so much and today try to burn inside fibres (on breakage) with lighter. Fibers burn immediatly and also grey inside of panels get to ash If you burn them a few seconds.

Do you think, that fibres would burn if they would be asbestos? Do you think that these panels are asbestos?

Thanks very much for help. I am so stressed and anxiety because I think I was exposed to asbestos.

 

[denso13]

Do you think that these panels are asbestos?

Only way to be sure is to get it tested.

 

[thomp1983]

Suspect Asbestos exposure

Hi all, last automn I was removing “gypsum” boards from the part of the wall. We are just before renovation of 300 years old house and I was opening plaster to check stone walls. Walls in one room was in 80’s covered with 1 cm thick “gypsum” boards. Directly on the stone wall was nailed wooden...

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Really not even 2 weeks between posts on the same subject?

You've been advised what to do if your as concerned as you say you are, get it tested.

 

[jeds]

Nothing you can do now, other than lodge it in the memory for next time you hack around a load of old building materials. It looks like it is probably asbestos cement board, which does contain asbestos but is not one of the particularly nasty asbestos types.

When I was a kid, they knocked down three blocks of flats just up the road. Demolition and building sites were the best playgrounds in the world in those days. There was a huge pile of asbestos cement board on site, off of the shed roofs, plus of course there was a permanent huge fire going. We discovered that if you break asbestos into a piece about a foot square and chuck it in the fire it explodes, sometimes with quite a big bang. Throughout one weekend we broke more or less the whole pile of boards into pieces and dumped it on the fire. Those were the days.

 

[DiyNutJob]

If you haven't died, you might be alright. Apart for the panicking heart rate, do you have coughs, rashes, seeing stars, fevers, or any other symptoms?

 

[robinbanks]

Veritably all symptoms of advanced asbestosis, commonly known to be fully onset after 2 weeks