Not sure if I have asbestos in my loft

[hamant]

Hi,

I was up in my loft the other day looking to see how feasible a loft conversion was and I noticed these sheets of what I think might be asbestos. There's 3 of them in total (1 is broken in half, not sure when it happened) and are about 500x700mm in size.

Here are 2 pics of them (the images aren't very clear as the lighting up there is very poor).

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Can anyone tell whether this is asbestos?

Thanks,

Hamant.

 

[maltaron]

You cant be 100% certain without looking at it but it appears to be what we used to call "straw board" which was used for insulation.

 

[OwainDIYer]

Even if they are asbestos If you only have 3 sheets of them you can double-bag them in bin bags and legally take them to the tip if your local council have asbestos facilities there, some do some don't.

But I don't think they look like asbestos.

It would be illegal to wrap them in a binbag and put them in the wheeliebin if you KNEW they were asbestos.

 

[Deluks]

You cant be 100% certain without looking at it but it appears to be what we used to call "straw board" which was used for insulation.

AKA woodwool?

 

[Nige F]

or Strammet : maybe loosely woven fibre glass with resin not asbestos tho`/.

 

[hamant]

Thanks for the replies so far guys.

You cant be 100% certain without looking at it but it appears to be what we used to call "straw board" which was used for insulation.

I did a Google image search for straw board and found this. Doesn't look very similar to what I have.

AKA woodwool?

I think it might be woodwool. I've taken some more photos using a better camera and it looks very similar to what I found when i Google'd woodwool.

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This is what Google turned up. Looks very similar to what's in my loft albeit the individual strands of whatever they are look straighter.

If it helps, I beleive one of the boards was used as a cover to the old cold water tank that we had before the combi was installed.

 

[pino]

Looks like strawboard or Stramit board, basically it's straw and cement I think. But sometimes it can have an asbestos paper backing (I've never seen it with the paper backing though).

 

[geraint]

Thanks for the replies so far guys.

You cant be 100% certain without looking at it but it appears to be what we used to call "straw board" which was used for insulation.

I did a Google image search for straw board and found this. Doesn't look very similar to what I have.

AKA woodwool?

I think it might be woodwool. I've taken some more photos using a better camera and it looks very similar to what I found when i Google'd woodwool.

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This is what Google turned up. Looks very similar to what's in my loft albeit the individual strands of whatever they are look straighter.

If it helps, I beleive one of the boards was used as a cover to the old cold water tank that we had before the combi was installed.

looks like weetabix to me... have it for breakfast... problem solved...