Is this asbestos under my floors???

[RigidRaider]

Don’t just assume it isn’t, it could be mixed with another material. Call an asbestos surveyor to sample it .

Another groan. That's the typical unthinking jobsworth blame culture reaction. Anybody with half a brain can see that it's a lath & plaster ceiling with about 100 years of accumulated dead skin and clothing fluff lying on top. Why on Earth would anybody put asbestos on there?

 

[JP_]

that's interesting - it think I have similar under the insulation in my old loft. I wondered what it was. Will take a closer look.
When did people start covering this up with ceiling boards? I have a 1930s bungalow.

 

[Ian H]

This is online asbestos training:

 

[EFLImpudence]

Does it magically appear in ceiling tiles if you damage them?

 

[333rocky333]

Does it magically appear in ceiling tiles if you damage them?

Most Bhs shops had Asbestos ceiling tiles they were used for a sleak look with no grid, we had to get specialists in to remove them, they were classed as safe for normal use, but if one got damaged it became like a crime scene.

 

[Thomasthepiperson]

In an old house there is good change of loose fill insulation being present. It could just be fluff, but like I have said get it tested.