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[pauls]

Iam moving to a 1980 built house and i had the survey report back today. It stated that the house may have asbestos in the artexed ceilings etc. Is they anyway i can find out before i start pulling ceilings down.
I have had a look on google but it only states to pay a company to come in and test it.

[tunnie]

I'd get a professional in to inspect and give a full report, then use that to haggle the sale price. 

As you'd want to get it removed professionally, which will cost. You want that deducted from sale price 

[Doctor Gollum]

Sounds like a cop out to me... Bit like saying that brake pads on a brand new car might contain asbestos

Without actually getting someone in, I'm not sure how else you could check

[Bigron]

Can you live with the Artexing? If so - leave it! It's my understanding that Asbestos is only hazardous in airborne powder form; embedded in Artex (plaster?) it is no threat to you. Paranoia abounds where Asbestos is concerned, encouraged by vested interests, like so many other things.

Ron.

[henryd]

Can you live with the Artexing? If so - leave it! It's my understanding that Asbestos is only hazardous in airborne powder form; embedded in Artex (plaster?) it is no threat to you. Paranoia abounds where Asbestos is concerned, encouraged by vested interests, like so many other things.

Ron.

 My workshop is made totally of asbestos but so long as its not drilled,filed,sanded or cut then its fine(I hope)

[Bigron]

Even if you do drill it, etc., as long as you have a mask and eye protection - and adequate ventilation - still no problem. As I said earlier, paranoia abounds.....

Ron.

[pauls]

Can you live with the Artexing? If so - leave it! It's my understanding that Asbestos is only hazardous in airborne powder form; embedded in Artex (plaster?) it is no threat to you. Paranoia abounds where Asbestos is concerned, encouraged by vested interests, like so many other things.

Ron.

Not to worried about the ceilings but i will need to do some work on the walls etc. Drilling , knocking down, sanding

[ronnyd]

So if the walls ain,t Artexed you,re fine

[Doctor Gollum]

Even if you do drill it, etc., as long as you have a mask and eye protection - and adequate ventilation - still no problem. As I said earlier, paranoia abounds.....

Ron.

With good reason...

Spending five days a week wiring submarines killed my Grandfather

[tunnie]

Can you live with the Artexing? If so - leave it! It's my understanding that Asbestos is only hazardous in airborne powder form; embedded in Artex (plaster?) it is no threat to you. Paranoia abounds where Asbestos is concerned, encouraged by vested interests, like so many other things.

Ron.

Not to worried about the ceilings but i will need to do some work on the walls etc. Drilling , knocking down, sanding

Then get an expert in, it's not worth pi$$ing about spending a huge sum on a house only for it to be a potentially lethal.

Profession survey, know what you are dealing with and such costs. Use it to haggle price down, or walk away in my view. 

[Terbs]

Unfortunately, Paul...asbestos was use in Artex up until about 2000. 

[Andy B]

 Every time we parked  along side,  the dockyard workers came  on-board, smashed ***k out of the asbestos pipe lagging  & filled both the engine  and boiler room with dust. It's a bit late for people like me.
Work has spent £millions on asbestos containment over the past few years.

[78bex]

Yer my gaf was built in the nineties & I got the same artex.
They look at the build date of the house & assume  it`s there. No biggy

UK works along the lines, "the rest of the world says it`s dangerous & we don`t"   

We saw the same reaction to Lead in petrol & paint,
 I think parts of europe banned lead in paint in the fifties, It took until the seventies for the UK to catch up. 

[Bigron]

DG, I am not trying to belittle the dangers from Asbestos and obviously I have sympathy for your grandfather - and your loss - but there is a world of difference between occupational long term exposure and - as in this case - small amounts of Asbestos bound up in plaster. If the OP is desperate to remove the Artex, dousing thoroughly with water and removing it carefully, wearing protective gear. Basically, that is all the expensive professionals do.

Ron.

[biggriffin]

With that amount of worry. Your going to die within 24 hrs of coming thro the door.
Find something else to worry about that is important.!