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Worried this is asbestos?

  • 09-12-2021 6:33pm
    #1
    The Duk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭


    Looking to treat woodworm in a 1916 house, took up a board to check the joists and saw the following. Room is on the first floor.

    IMG_20211209_175514.jpg

    It doesn't look fibrous but does looked pumped in. I know it's pre 1981.



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  • #2
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,128 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    No idea. Would those houses have had a lath and plaster ceiling?

    https://www.labc.co.uk/news/my-dad-told-me-about-them-lath-and-plaster-ceilings



  • #3
    The Duk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭The Duk


    It does look like that !



  • #4
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Yes, Lath and Plaster.

    The plaster is forced in past the laths so that it "mushrooms" over the back of the lath and remains solidly stuck.

    Carry on.



  • #5
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,128 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Most asbestos I've worked with (very rarely and a very long time ago) looks more like hairy recycled cardboard paper. It crumbles like cardboard thats got soaked then dried. Also anytime I've worked with it, it was in sheets.



  • #6
    The Duk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭The Duk


    Thanks all, appreciate it!



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  • #7
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,128 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    If you're not sure you should get it checked.



  • #8
    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


    That's a lath & plaster ceiling. Be careful with it if you're keeping it - they are fairly fragile.



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