Advice needed - Asbestos (pictures added)

bob2

The following gallery has a huge set of detailed photographs of a wide range of asbestos products...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asbestos_pix/

topdaddy_2

Gold_Dust wrote: »

What do you all think? This is a chunk that fell off:

The fibres look far too big to me but the real test involves microscopes so wait for that.

societys_child

That looks like plasters scrim (old hessian) cloth or similar . . . certainly doesn't look like asbestos.

stebiz

societys_child wrote: »

That looks like plasters scrim (old hessian) cloth or similar . . . certainly doesn't look like asbestos.

I'd agree. Another no from me. But like said you might as well wait for an expert to look.

Gold_Dust_2

Thank you all, you gave her some hope before the surveyor came. He's had a look now, and taken some samples......:but he thinks it's lath and plaster....horsehair, basically!

:j:j

00ec25

Gold_Dust wrote: »

T.:but he thinks it's lath and plaster....horsehair, basically!

that is precisely what I'd say it was - horsehair

what age is the house as that will be a good indication of what type of plaster method was likely used, it certainly won't be asbestos with fibres that big,

if she wants to worry unnecessarily then lets hope its not plaster made with animal dung