asbestos

We decided today to decorate our landing and, on removing the wallpaper from one wall we were met with these tiles: Walltiles1 by martindp84 posted 7 Jan 2018 at 8:13 PM We decided to remove them to replace with modern plasterboard and only half way through did it occur to us that they might...

Hi, So a month ago we moved into a house built in 1991. Ceilings are artex so fine as long as not disturbed but in order to upgrade extractor fans and lighting the electrician removed the old extractor fan/shower switch in the bathrooms leaving an exposed hole. Tonight our painter and...

I am in the process of removing a partition wall which after some research appears to be a paramount partition. It has a cardboard egg box like structure between 2 sheets of plasterboard inside. On inspection, there seems to be a textured coating on the inside on the plasterboard sheets (see...

Hi all So i just finished fitting a new door handle lock and mid way through the question popped into my mind whether the door panel board was asbestos or not??! i think it's some kind of softboard but i'm a tad bit worried... Can anyone confirm from these images? Thanks in advance

Hi Just doing some internal renovation, and wondering could this be asbestos plasterboard ceiling? The extension is a 2 storey with a flat roof. The internal garage below the room had an asbestos ceiling (guessing for fire proofing), but we had this removed as part of the garage conversion a...

I am looking for a bit of advice around our garage roof and structure in general. We have a larger than average sized single skin detached garage at the bottom of our garden which currently has an asbestos roof which we are looking to remove. (I know un-disturbed this is ok, but this is just...

I recently had a survey done on a house we are looking to buy. The report on the ceiling said this: "Ceilings are of plasterboard. A textured finish has been applied to some ceilings. It is now known that such finishes may contain low levels of asbestos. These appear to be in satisfactory...

Hello everyone, I am planning to start using an old fireplace and I am a little worried that the mortar lining around the chimney and on the back wall could contain asbestos. It is fairly brittle and it didn't take very much for a piece of the lining to come off unintentionally when I was...

Hello there, I know this is something that is asked very frequently, but I have a question about possible asbestos. It's something that has recently come up in conversation, and I am hoping that somebody here may be able to tell me that I am talking nonsense, and what the walls are actually...

Hi, have been pulling up some floorboards and found this underneath. Looks very old. Am wondering if it is some form of asbestos insulation? Seems to have been wrapped between the boards below, and has crumbled and split in some areas. Concerned that if it is asbestos then it will release...

Hi all, This brown board is on the side of the chimney breast in the kitchen: It looks smooth and isn't very thick. It's hidden by a kitchen cabinet and tiled over up to where the cabinet starts. You can see it from the outside too, the chimney is plastered for about 6inches and then the...

Hi Everyone. This is my first post so apologies if its in the wrong section. Just looking for some advice... I have a leak from the hot or cold water pipe servicing the bathroom on 1st floor. The affected section of the ceiling is rendered with plaster in between beams. Above the plaster...

Hi all, Recently been aware that there is some asbestos in our artex ceiling that is going to be removed. Since then i have been trying to go through old photos of work that i've done to the house to see if anything could have potentially contained asbestos. So far i've posted about textured...

Hi, I recently had a leak in a artex ceiling that came back positive for asbestos. 2 years previous we did a lot of work on the house. Before the new carpet was installed we took the old carpet and underlay up. Since my concern over asbestos i have read that some hessian underlay contained...

Hi. I'm new to this forum and looking for some guidance on a subject that has made me worried sick.... A few years back my wife and I bought a mid 1930's house that needed a fair amount of work. We had a back of house extension done for a new kitchen/diner, however to save money my father in...

Hi all So I live in a 1920s house which has me and my boyfriend are currently attacking room by room, the room we're working on is the kitchen. Being bank holiday seemed a good idea to start ripping everything out, until on day two I thought to myself 'I wonder if that's asbestos?' and have...

Hi, I have a garage in a run of terraced garages all sharing a continuous sheet roof (corrugated cement material, probably asbestos), with the sheets fitted with an overlap of a few corrugations. I'm interested in making the garage a better working space, clean, dry and dust free etc, but not...

I am particularly cautious about the precence of any asbestos in the house and have had loft vermiculite insulation tested in the past. When cutting out a hole in the plasterboard partition in the under the stairs cupboard I came across a cement board with wood like chips in backing the...

Forgive me if this turns out to be a stupid or pointless post.. About 18 months ago we had the bathroom decorated. My Dad and brother did it. We had some foul artex that my dad and brother removed with a sander (yes, I know..) It was SO messy. I remember it was absolutely EVERYWHERE like a...

Hello fellow DIY'ers. I have a flat in a 1930's building, in the process of doing up as it's been rented out before and bodged quite badly :( So the bathroom looks like it has been done in the last 10 years. All looks ok but the boiler cupboard is a mess. Plaster falling off crumbles dust at...