any chance this could be asbestos

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hoping someone can help please, we are removing some strange skirting boards from our downstairs rooms, council house built in 50's. the skirting board is odd its a bit like concrete, but its not, its also as if its part of the floor and an odd curved shape. we were removing it so we can put some new laminate flooring down neatly. i am just a bit worried about it being asbestos, thank you
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No. What is it .... grit, soft, hard?

Is the house a traditional brick and block build or is it a system build?
 
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Council houses often had concrete skirtings, looks like breeze block (sometimes known as cinder block, made from recycled furnace clinker) to me, common in internal walls. Could also be black brick if the outside walls have black patches in them.
Only bit likely to have asbestos is the original floor tiles and possibly adhesive if they are the Marley type (usually brown and brittle) they are considered low risk though.
 
Thank you for both replying and for putting my mind at rest will crack on with removing them
 
Removing them will make an awful mess do you really need to? Making good without having a noticeable line around the wall will be almost impossible. I would make good and simply paint the skirting the wall colour It will just look like a feature with the laminate trim fixed to it and any gap filled with paintable silicone.
 
I didn’t want to remove because I suspected that but my husband wanted to because they are curved making it so that you can’t fit laminate right up to them and they don’t look very tidy, we was trying to decorate to a nice tidy standard this time. To be fair though due to furniture you don’t see large amounts of the skirting, what you can see though is horrible
 
Is this more of a plinth (very wide) rather than a skiting board (about 12mm thick)?

It does seem to be breeze block, but I can't imaging block being as thin as a skirting board.
 
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yes its about 12mm thick, curved so it sticks out a little more at floor level, feels like concrete, that's the best way i can describe it
 

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