Hey I ripped down a false ceiling last night which had a artex style pattern on it, walls are covered in it as well and have just found out some artex contains asbestos. Anyway I'm worried now but is it artex or not? Basically looked at a lump that came down which has hair in it, so I'm assuming thats horsehair plaster and the textured pattern has just been put over the top but it's very thin, because I'm a total amateur I don't know what artex is like when it comes down and I'd really like if I didn't need to worry. House is over a hundred years old but no idea when that pattern crap was put up but assuming a long time ago. Plaster was applied over thin strips of wood.