Asbestos in Donegal

DrPhilG

Any companies recommended to investigate? I have a house that was built I believe in the 70s and I'm wondering if I should get it checked out.

DrPhilG

@muffler?

muffler

DrPhilG wrote: »

@muffler?

Roofs are normally the only place you will find asbestos products and is easily recognisable as its in corrugated sheet form. These sheets would usually have been used on very old houses (rarely though) but would have been more common on shed roofs up to the 70's or so. A slate roof should be okay but there was a time when asbestos - cement slates were used but the amount of asbestos was negligible. Im not sure in what year that practice stopped though.

L1011

Rare to see a pre-70s house in Donegal without an Artex ceiling which will also probably contain asbestos.

Artex had asbestos in it extremely late.

DrPhilG

The living room had artex when we bought it.

We pulled it down and replaced it as my brother in law put his foot through from upstairs.

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DrPhilG

Actually the downstairs bathroom and back hall still have artex, but they were part of an extension put on fairly recently so should be OK.

muffler

DrPhilG wrote: »

Actually the downstairs bathroom and back hall still have artex, but they were part of an extension put on fairly recently so should be OK.

Ah, this is probably a different house than the one Im thinking of?

DrPhilG

I suspect so.

This is my old house in Newton, not the one you're thinking of.

Glass fused light

Some of the lads who would have been building in the 70 and before would be retired. If its a country build you might even be able to find some of the original builders. So you could get a reasonable risk assessment on likely materials for the price of a pint or two, and some polite conversation. But don't discount that a self builder may have been collecting and holding materials on site for a number of years before the build started.

DrPhilG

It's a fairly large estate, mostly council houses. Maybe 60 in total.

L1011

If there are still council owned properties there and they've done one up for a re-tenanting in the past few years they would have details on asbestos somewhere. May not be that easy to get out of them though.