AIB or Wood?!

[ShortyK]

Hey folks, I know i'll have to get it tested to really know for sure, it's a 1970 house, the garage is integral and has a room (and flat roof) above it - I've just assumed it's AIB (people have drilled into it to put pipes in the past before our ownership) but it's so hollow sounding, and really looks like painted wood! (Although one of the pics, with the pipe, looks like fibre right through it).
It's nailed up too - anyone seen anything / had anything similar and had it tested?

 

[23vc]

Plasterboard/cement board/asbestos. Gut feel is not plasterboard as the paper face tends to go brown over the years, and just looks more like cement/aib type thing to me. If plasterboard, inside bit might feel fairly soft/chalky compared to cement/aib.

Nails were dead common until whenever people used cordless/auto feed screwdrivers more.

 

[endecotp]

Get it tested - but it looks like plasterboard to me.

 

[^woody^]

If the surfaces are paper, or if in unpainted areas the surfaces are a different colour to the edges, then it's plasterboard.

 

[catlad]

Looks like fireproof cement board to me.

 

[ShortyK]

Found another area to take a pic of!

 

[23vc]

Sticking with my non-plasterboard guess.

 

[endecotp]

What was the test result?

 

[stevie888]

My vote is not plasterboard. Our old place was buil early 70s and the garage ceiling is Asbestolux as was the enclosure round the old boiler (printed on the back) (Safely removed years ago).

We only recently sold and I fully expected the surveyor to question it but to my surprise he didn't. Mind you ke didn't look at the roof either!!

 

[^woody^]

The surface texture indicates a pressed board, and if it is from the 70's then it is likely to be AIB

 

[ShortyK]

Yeah this is it, i'll have to get this removed professionally, will obviously test first, but I am 99.9% sure as well that it's likely AIB - which means the little storm porch thing we have also has it (as it looks very similar!) that's only a small area so I wouldn't imagine too expensive, but the garage ceiling probably more so.

I don't plan to disturb it - but a couple of issues being;

1) The flat roof above it, is going to need replacing fairly soon, and judging by the banging and stomping of the workmen the last time they replaced the garden flat roof, I don't want to risk them stamping the roof so hard it knocks a ceiling board down!

2) It lets me then use the ceiling for storage / hanging the roof box up etc.

We plan on living there a long time, so I guess if a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing properly!