Could this be asbestos? Ceiling boards

[Mercury00]

I've just been drilling this to run aerial electrical cables, including cutting circles with a holecutter. I don't know if you can get asbestos ceiling boards, I just didn't like the look of this when I cut a hole in it. The surveyor said it was plaster and lath, but it's only a 6mm sheet.






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[Mercury00]

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[Mercury00]

I've looked at testing websites and they want a three inch piece. How am I going to fix a three inch hole in my ceiling? It's not as if I'm going to replace them anyway, I've got no money and won't have for the foreseeable future with the amount of other problems this place has. I'll just sell the place and say it's lath and plaster like the surveyor did with me

[Mercury00]

dirkgently said:

Don`t use a vacuum unless it has a hepa filter, you will just end up with a contaminated room and vacuum cleaner.
OP, The sample you have should be big enough for a lab to test.

How am I supposed to get it off my carpets?? I'm just going to have to burn my house down, aren't I?

I have a few of those circle pieces that I cut out, in case the testers do need a bigger bit.

[Mercury00]

I've arranged a test, they're sending some stuff out to bag up the pieces littering my house.

The ceiling tiles aren't covering anything like damaged lath and plaster, as suggested above. I was working in the loft yesterday feeding wires, it's just the 6mm sheet nailed to the joists.

[Mercury00]

The exact wording of the surveyor's report is "The ceilings are made of a mixture of older plaster supported on thin wooden strips(called 'lath and plaster') and modern plasterboard". That isn't my understanding of lath and plaster.

[Mercury00]

That's what I thought. The thin wooden strips on my ceiling are only there to cover the joins, they don't support the boards at all, the boards are nailed to the joists. I'd have thought that was obvious considering the nail heads are clearly visible.

[Mercury00]

I've just heard back that it is asbestos. I'm just wondering if there's any comeback against the surveyor saying it was lath and plaster, I paid top whack for the house.

[Mercury00]

I got the middle-tier survey, so he went up into the loft and could see both sides of the ceiling board. The test results said the asbestos was chrysotile, and that I can remove it myself providing I don't cut it. I suppose there's no point worrying about it now that I've already cut it.

[Mercury00]

Timber roof? I had rotten floor joists and the floor collapsed, that was another surveyor doing an independent damp surveyor. They must all be fking useless.