asbestos

This seems to be a subject that has come up so many times. Moving into an 1850s cottage the bathroom ceiling is artex covered lathe and plaster, the ceiling is water damaged from the roof leaking (will be fixed before I start anything) so it has to come down, I also want spots and a ceiling fan...

Hi I’ve recently moved into an old property and am waiting for central heating to be put in. It currently has old storage heaters and I’m worried that they may contain asbestos. Especially if my pregnant wife is around.. The model is berry magicoal 4102 I have looked on registers of heaters...

Hi. We have a residential 'asbestos in textured wall coating' problem in our recently bought older house. (1925 large 3 bed semi). We want to get our hall, stairs and landing reskimmed but one wall has blown from the brick and sections are damaged. I also had an asbestos test come back...

Hello, I moved in to my new home mid august and in starting to decorate noticed the skim had lifted away in a corner. The painter started pulling it off and underneath there is this coarse and rock hard layer. Anyway after tapping the wall etc there are places where the plaster is crumbling...

I have a leak in my kitchen ceiling. I am worried if this is asbestos-containing material. I am looking to get a professional to test it but in the mean time I would like to know if I can go in there and make food/drink. These are the pictures: Thanks for reading. Any help is appreciated.

I'm remodelling my first floor bathroom and lifted the chipboard floor to find a load of small stones. An internet search suggested it my be Vermiculite and that it might not be that good for me if I breath in the dust. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this and if it is dangerous...

Hello everyone I'm not sure where to post this, however, I have found some debris in my backyard and am concerned that it might contain asbestos. There are several pieces of it throughout the yard. It looks like it might be an old planter box or water feature. I've taken some pictures and...

A few years ago we sanded part of a ceiling not realising until recently that it contains asbestos. We're planning on redecorating the room the ceiling was sanded in and want to remove the carpet, I'm just concerned about the amount of asbestos dust that's settled in it from our past mistake. I...

Hi, I discovered some redundant pipes in the loft. They are wrapped in some black wrapping, underneath it there is some brown fabric (1st image) that is showing where the black wrapping has come loose. I was told that there could be asbestos underneath the brown fabric? I have wrapped the...

House was built between 1911 and 1926. Majority of the ceilings are original plaster lathe. Survey has suggested these, the ceiling coving and walls be tested for asbestos. I chatted with the surveyor, who said he saw no evidence of, or, anything to suggest asbestos, however, prudent to test...

Hi, I got some soil from someone local giving it away for filling our garden before we sow grass seed. After laying some of this soil I noticed some small clumps that in honesty look like compressed grass/moss, however it looks a bit fibrous and is brown/greyish in colour. Any opinions on...

Hi. I got some soil from someone local giving it away for filling our garden before we sow grass seed. After laying some of this soil I noticed some small clumps that in honesty look like compressed grass/moss, however it looks a bit fibrous and is brown/greyish in colour. Any opinions on...

More unidentified pipe lagging in my undercroft. Please see pic below - what is this stuff? Any chance it contains asbestos? Or is it some sort of mineral wool? Any advice welcome!

I'm new to the forum so apologies for any daft questions. Was clearing out my undercroft the other day and came across what looks like some old pipe insulation. Photos attached, brown in colour, there are bits of it all over the place so must break up easily. Don't know how long it's been there...

Hi, in my bedroom the ceiling is starting to flake in places. Here is the first place - https://imgur.com/HEa2k2X and here is the other side of the room - https://imgur.com/uFLJofw . I had a sample tested and it came back positive for Chrysotile, what can I do to make sure asbestos fibres aren't...

Hi all, I'm inexperienced and need your help in figuring something out. I bought a flat recently and the survey identified asbestos Artex in one of bedroom, and also in the cupboard ceiling of the other bedroom. I got some licensed folks to come over and get rid of all the Artex they...

Hi guys, first time posting here, Just a quick question about what I found while while gardening. The edge (boundary) is made of concrete or cement, and on the inner side of the concrete, found this. I thought it was just a hard soil or something, and broke a piece of it, then thought maybe...

Hi, recently bought a 1910 house and was putting up a curtain rail in the bedroom. The wall started to crumble away and noticed a lot of the rubble coming out of it looking like the pics below. Is this potentially asbestos? Or is it unlikely? I’ve never come across it before so I’m unsure. Cheers

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Was redecorating and saw this between doorframe and wall, does it look like asbestos? More fibres sticking out up the wall. Planning on wallpapering over it.