asbestos???

[jonny1]

is there a away of telling if some artex has asbestos???

 

[Cremeegg]

To be absolutely certain only by getting an asbestos analyst to take a sample and analyse it under the microscope. At worst it is not going to contain more than 2% asbestos fibre. Most Artex and similar materials manufactured after about 1985 don't contain any asbestos; some companies stopped using it before - but who knows how long it had been sitting around before people mixed it up and slapped it on.

Was in B&Q once when a member of their staff advised a member of public to use a belt sander to remove it rather than the angle grinder he was thinking of.

Best way to deal with Artex is to overboard the ceiling and skim over the new plasterboard - done well you should only lose a cm or two of ceiling height.

 

[jonny1]

ok cheers mate... its just that someone has told me that if you take a sample to a chemist they can test it for you?????? not sure how true this is!!

 

[Deluks]

ok cheers mate... its just that someone has told me that if you take a sample to a chemist they can test it for you?????? not sure how true this is!!

Not sure that would go down too well in Boots

 

[Cremeegg]

The analyst must be accredited under the UKAS scheme - good though Boots might be for some things - asbestos analysis isnt one of them. Yellow Pages should help - there are plenty of such labs around.

 

[jonny1]

ok cheers, how do u eat yours?

 

[Cremeegg]

Chilled slightly in fridge - insides still runny - chocolate nice and crisp.

 

[joe-90]

Who cares? Paint it and skim over it.

No one has died from asbestos in Artex - it's just a theoretical risk. Cigarettes kill 128,000 every year in the UK!

Don't smoke do you?