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Artex ceilings with asbestos (1960's house on housing estate)
Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.18 PM
For the most part our house has flat ceilings. We presume most were boarded over and skimmed before my husband bought it. We are left with two bedrooms and a bathroom that still have artex (the spikey looking stuff!). We trust our plasterer and he has done a great job with walls and ceilings, especially when we had a leak in one of the bedrooms. He said we should be aware that we definitely have asbestos in the ceilings (I think he meant above the ceiling in the loft) as he saw it when he replaced boarding. He said it is not an issue as long as it is not disturbed. He has given a quote to skim over the other two bedroom ceilings. He said he would take off any really long spikes and then do the skimming. I asked about boarding over too. He said this was possible but the coving would need to come off. This bedroom has suffered from a few leaks when water came in through the roof. There are a few areas at the sides where the paint is starting to peel off. Only a very small bit (size of 10p piece) has fallen off. We asked a builder friend about the ceiling and he was more wary and said we should just seal it with PVA/Water and then paint over because of asbetos. We are getting different opinions and so we are now not sure what to do. I would like to board over the ceiling in the larger room but are we at risk if the plasterer is taking off the long spikes? Or is there only risk if he is not cleaning up properly as he goes and afterwards? We think we may leave the smaller room and paint over or just get it skimmed but it is the bigger room I am worried about due to the peeling.
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Timothy David Interiors
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