Asbestos in ceiling?

[Koolpc]

Try to forget about it. Its been over boarded now. Its all sealed up. Nothing you can do. Live your life. If it did have asbestos it may very well have been miniscule!!!

Plenty of other nasties floating around us every day!!! Just look at vaping!!! Whats going to be the fall out from that in 40 years time!!!!

 

[Beansbaked]

Thank you all for taking the time to reply. If the area hadn’t have been so big I would have been able to move on without worrying so much but 4ftx6ft could potentially have released millions of fibres if there were any in there.

I think I need to stop googling as that can’t give me the answer and is probably making me feel worse

Thank you again

 

[^woody^]

Can I ask why you say asbestos wasn’t used in the ceiling of the outhouse?

Because in the UK it was not used in that way. Not used in plaster.

Invariably, all councils used similar specifications and that's a standard out house and that looks like a standard [concrete? ] roof with steel lath to support the plaster. If you can see hairs then typically it would be lime plaster.

The only wet applied product to walls and ceiling that might contain asbestos fibres is textured coating like Artex. This would have a very small content, so small that it needs testing from multiple areas to try and find some and you won't see them without a microscope in any case.

 

[Beansbaked]

Because in the UK it was not used in that way. Not used in plaster.

Invariably, all councils used similar specifications and that's a standard out house and that looks like a standard [concrete? ] roof with steel lath to support the plaster. If you can see hairs then typically it would be lime plaster.

The only wet applied product to walls and ceiling that might contain asbestos fibres is textured coating like Artex. This would have a very small content, so small that it needs testing from multiple areas to try and find some and you won't see them without a microscope in any

Thank you for your reply, please don’t think I was being rude by asking.

I work with quite a few trades people and most have said they don’t think it would contain asbestos or they wouldn’t have even thought about it but none have given me a detailed answer like yours.

Also the house next door had that area made into a wet room and they’ve added about 5 inches onto their roof so I’m sure anything would have been flagged up then