Removal of council house fireplace, has anyone done it? Need advice

-taff

You're worrying too much about it. Your fireplace is boarded up now and is not going to be sneakily seeping asbestos out of it. If you cleaned throughly, you won't have any lying around. The chances of there being asbestos in the firplace is small anyway.
There won't have been any in the bricks. There may have been some in the cement. Send the cement off.
And stop worrying.

Dean000000

So is it the fireplace, the kitchen tiles, or the ceiling your dad drilled into that had asbestos?

I’m getting very confused.

Anyone with the time and inclination can link my only three posts to this person.

Very odd

Thebudha100

Hi
I know your thread/post is a few months old now but I read it with interest as I have had similar issues. Can I ask if you had the asbestos results from the testing kit returned?

In short, I am in a council flat built c 1970s and there was a tiled gas fire. The hearth had been taken out and replaced with smaller patio slabs. It looked such a mess, I took these up when I laid a new carpet. I took the gas fire off the wall and removed the board sealing it off (replaced it afterwards) and behind the covered fireplace hole (behind gas fire) was quite a lot of broken pieces and dust. Not realising what it might be I swept it up to clean it up. This was some years ago and recently I have thought this could be asbestos. So any advice would be appreciated.

It is tiled hearth and surround around a gas fire. I think quite standard design on council property. If you had it tested or anyone else has info, I'd be really appreciative.

Thanks

Thanks

TadleyBaggie

They haven't logged on for over 5 months, unlikely they will return anytime soon.

Norman_Castle

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

They haven't logged on for over 5 months, unlikely they will return anytime soon.

Assuming they can return :eek:

TELLIT01

And we never did get an answer as to whether or not they had permission from the council to remove the entire fireplace. I suspect the answer would be 'No'.

HampshireH

TheBudha

The OPs test results are irrelevant to you.

Your fireplace is different to theirs. Some have asbestos some dont.

It's pointless worrying about something you now have no influence over. The work is done. The debris removed. Nothing can be done about it now.