I've got this drop ceiling in my hall between the bedroom and living room doors (as shown in the first photo) that I want to take down and I was going to just cut around the edges with my multi-tool, but now I'm wondering whether it might be some sort of board that contains asbestos rather than ordinary wood. The board was covered in paper and paint which I've been removing using X-Tex just in case it's Artex but I'm thinking that they would have papered and painted it when it was put up, so if they were using Artex at that time maybe the boards they used also contained asbestos.
The second photo shows the edge of the vertical board where it joins the horizontal board after I stripped the paper and paint off. You can see the surface of the horizontal board where I've removed the paper looks like wood.
The third and fourth photos are looking into the space above the drop ceiling from my living room, after I removed the panel above the door blocking it off. You can see there's some sort of old ducting going into the space above the bedroom door (it's boarded off inside the bedroom so you can't see it from there, but I guess it was used to carry fresh air, or heated air, to the rooms). What concerns me is this side of the board looks grey, like cement, rather than brown like the wooden battens and door frame.
There's also this big round orange thing in the space, as shown in the fifth photo, which is very light. I have no idea what that was for but I'll be able to bag that up without cutting it once the board is removed, if it's safe to do so.
The second photo shows the edge of the vertical board where it joins the horizontal board after I stripped the paper and paint off. You can see the surface of the horizontal board where I've removed the paper looks like wood.
The third and fourth photos are looking into the space above the drop ceiling from my living room, after I removed the panel above the door blocking it off. You can see there's some sort of old ducting going into the space above the bedroom door (it's boarded off inside the bedroom so you can't see it from there, but I guess it was used to carry fresh air, or heated air, to the rooms). What concerns me is this side of the board looks grey, like cement, rather than brown like the wooden battens and door frame.
There's also this big round orange thing in the space, as shown in the fifth photo, which is very light. I have no idea what that was for but I'll be able to bag that up without cutting it once the board is removed, if it's safe to do so.