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Have a 1979 built house with a lovely fake feature fireplace that features a lot of presumably similar aged artex. We want to rip it out when we change the room round this year.
I'm guessing it's worth getting the artex tested for asbestos given it's age? Any recommendations for testers in the Derby area?
Cheers
Don't get taken in. Certainly in edinburgh and glasgow the council can test for you at a daft low rate (£35 i seem ro rememeber) give the council a call. We just dropped of a wee ziplock.
Do you need someone local? I booked it online, just posted off the samples and got the results back a few days later.
Yeah it doesn't have to be local. I had mine tested recently as part of an insurance claim due to a water leak damaging the roof. The insurance company got a bod around, he took a few samples from around the ceiling into wee bags to send off for analysis. My house is mid-'90's so in theory after the asbestos ban, but the concern was that certain builders would be using up their old stocks of the older asbestos containing stuff. Came back clear.
Cheers - presumably if you do it by post, you just chop a chunk out and paint back over quickly to seal it just in case? - yes I know the risk may be small....
You’d have to be literally smashing it to dust and/or cutting it to be a risk.
Decent eye/resp protection and just get on with it.
Double bag the waste and the local tip will take it.
The company that I used wanted a sample from three different places in the room about credit card-sized in total.
My house is mid-’90’s so in theory after the asbestos ban
November 1999 was the final date here, a few years later in Europe
We routinely test any property that we're going to be working on built pre-2000. No exceptions.
If you are getting somebody in, then its worth having a localised refurbishment & demolition survey done, where they will sample everything that could be a potential ACM, including accessing ducts, ceilings, voids etc.
In a property built in 79 it could, in theory still have old Marley floor tiles or asbestos bound bitumin adhesive lurking beneath carpets & underlay.
don’t sue me but wear a mask, get a sample, double bag and send to scopes for about a tenner
SOCOTEC are in Burton.
I used these recently for Artex and some garage roof panels: