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there was more than me taking the tiles off including our boss who instructed us to. my assumption that they would not be that harmful is that when my old employer tended for this job he would of had to produce a method statement to the housing association on how the tiles would be removed and...

i agree with you stuart, i wont read your article you have attached because i wont read something a journalist has wrote. but i just been on website for asbestos victims and woman wrote about living in her house which had asbestos in the cupboards and artex etc she then went on to say that she...

what part do you think is ridiculous ?

people like to scare monger, people may comment later on this thread suggesting that is is dangerous. but put it this way i worked for 6 years for a plastering and external insulation company in cornwall. we had a big contract external insulating and plastering old council houses. there were...

in all honesty i dont think your going to be at a high risk from a one off exposure to a product that contains a small amount of white asbestos. you may disturb a small amount from taking off skirting, wear a dust mask and appropriate PPE and clean up well after if your really concerned. the...

take them off if you want them off

if you cant get it covered right away and are worried about the damaged artex there is a thing you can buy to spray over the damaged areas of the artex to stop any potential bits of asbestos being released. ive seen the professional asbestos people spary it when they go in to take away the...

for wickes to say 1300 bricks needed i think what they have done is calculated for a 4 inch thick wall which would be 60 bricks per m2 which would give you 1380 bricks needed.

there are 120 bricks per m2 in a 9 inch brick wall, so a wall 2 metres high 11.5 metres long would be 2760 bricks not including bricks for piers. so probably be looking at around 3000 bricks. foundation i would do a 450mm wide 225mm depth and 11.5 metre long trench needing 1.164 m3 in concrete...

i think you will be fine, iv done my asbestos awearness course and i asked the tutor lots of questions about asbestos and i remember him saying one off exposure to asbestos is unlikely to cause illness in later life. and that most people who are getting ill are people who worked around the stuff...

i worked for a plastering company for 6 years, and used wetherby k rend and dash receiver, which come in various colours. there was one particular job when the boss under ordered on the k rend. So to over come this he went back to the store and picked up some bags containing similar colours...