Recent content by sydldn

Electrician pulled up the floorboards to relay some cables and exposed some odd looking insulation on the radiator pipes. Is this asbestos or possible fibreglass? Close up it looks very fibrous - its not been disturbed but we do want to move the radiator in a week or two so it would be good to...

Right I’ve found a date of manufacture for the window and it was installed in or after March 1998, and the plaster/coating was done after that date as it’s on the window frame. That’s making me a feel a little better as I believe Artex started phasing out asbestos in the 1980s. So although it...

Thanks all. It’s gone very powdery as the area has been exposed to damp for a long time - I am not sure if that points towards containing asbestos or not. I’ve booked in a survey but they can only do next week so I am left in a bit of a state of panic and dread until then.

Hi all. My partner and I bought a 1930s home a few months ago and we have been stripping off the old textured wallpaper - we are confident the wallpaper is asbestos free. However, when scraping around the window which was replaced with uPVC double glazing (we believe around the 1980s) there...