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Why are you getting personal? I ask so I don't duped by companies and there are some materials that are clearly identified as asbestos/not asbestos. The difference is that there are people here who are helpful where as you are not being helpful atm.

It's genuine. If you biopsy your lung right now you will find asbestos fibres inside of them from natural air pollution.

There is naturally thousands of them floating around in our air and we inhale a massive load. The problem is when you inhale a sufficient dose in one sitting or prolonged over time - and this can give rise to an increase in asbestosis (similar to COPD/emphysema) and mesothelioma (cancer of the...

Cat is fine lol. ; )

Thats handy Cheers mate

Cheers Nigel. Here is a few close ups of it all peeled back. I conducted my own experiment and took a blow torch to it (live and let live). Fibreglass turns into small black bead looking things when burned and asbestos glows yellow/hot white. This did none of that. But even looking at this...

Cheers As you can see the whole thing is shredded open and been like that for sometime. Think it is time to get rid of it. Are you confident in your ID (not asbestos)?

It's been exposed like this for awhile now. From what I know, some materials are more likely to contain asbestos than others. I'm curious as to whether or not this is one of them (insulating jacket) and if it appears *like* fibreglass. Does it look like fibreglass to you?

Hi mate, Green/turqoise plastic cover. Added in some additional photos.

Hi, We are shaping up the home a bit and opened up the old cabinet that leads to the hot water tank (not used). One of our cats likes to wander in there and got closed in, so has shredded the damn thing. This boiler jacket could have been installed in the 60s, but likelihood is 70s to 80s. Am...

Turns out it curled and burned when flame was brought to it.

Better that then spikey plumber pubes me thinks :LOL:

Typically, but that is usually when they are too small to be identified by eye. Whatever this is, happens to be large enough to ID by eye and doesnt display typical characteristics such as 'splaying fibres in bundles'. Fibres can be separated with asbestos but these seem to be one thick unit...

That's the stuff I am talking about. Asbestos is usually noticabley fibrous and in bundles - can be separated and noticed as individual hairs? I'll give the fire test ago.

Is it worth setting fire to it to see if it will burn? (y):LOL::D