Artexed walls please help amongst other things.....

redpoison

We moved into a council house in feb this year. The kitchen has artexed walls so did the chimney breast of the living room..

The chimney breast in the living room i removed with a steamer and it came of like rubber (wasnt asbestos was it?) .

In the kitchen it is on every wall and the ceiling, it looks awfull . I would'nt have the patience to do this with a steamer.

How do we go about getting this checked for asbestos? The council inspector came out and noted it down back in march, but they are taking to long repairing things, Which we have done ourselves! It is just the kitchen now, We have to get the floor up (tiled, horribly not straight), and the artex, we need a new kitchen also, but council are not putting new kitchens in for another 5 years. We only have 2 double cupboards ..


Help please

philgee

I think all artex prior to 2000 will have asbestos content (someone told me this once, so could be wrong).

Safest way to remove would probably be steaming as it will keep dust levels down.

silps

I googled about artex and asbestos a few weeks ago and what I came up with is that artex before 1988 had a little asbestos. But apparently it is a white asbestos (not harmful) and only a little amount so they deregulated it so you don't need to get specialists to remove it anymore.

You need to google this yourself to confirm as I am no specialist or expert. Also there is a product available that you paint on and it strips artex easily.

ormus

if you take sensilbe precautions then stripping artex is not really a big health problem.
but its a lot of hard work. its just easier to skim over the whole lot.
or Plasterboard it instead.