Is this asbestos or just plaster board? How do i repair?

AdventureRocks

Someone has glued the fire alarm to the ceiling on a block of wood and it was bugging me.

So i ripped it down and all of this stuff came with it and has left an orange mark on the ceiling. 

I am guessing it is just plaster board? but i have bad anxiety and really worrying about this now..

How do i repair it please?

grumbler

Looks like plaster to me. It's a different question what sort of surface was plastered.

Plasterboard is white inside.

Murmansk

It's not the world's biggest hole! Put some filler it and smooth it with a suitable tool or the edge of an old credit card. Let it dry, do it again if it needs it. Sand it smooth with sandpaper wrapped round a bit of wood. Paint it.
To me it looks like plasterboard with a skim of finishing plaster and the yellow stuff looks like Gorilla Glue or foam from a can.

London50

If it in the house then there is a 99% chance it is plasterboard.tap it and if you get a hollow sound it,s plasterboard then just do as Murmansk has said

FreeBear

grumbler said: Plasterboard is white inside.

Finished putting some plasterboard up a few weeks back - The stuff was pink behind the paper covering. Most plasterboard is white, it just depends on who the manufacturer is.

Polyfilla will fix the hole the OP has. With a bit of care, the repair should be invisible once painted.

AdventureRocks

Murmansk said:

It's not the world's biggest hole! Put some filler it and smooth it with a suitable tool or the edge of an old credit card. Let it dry, do it again if it needs it. Sand it smooth with sandpaper wrapped round a bit of wood. Paint it.
To me it looks like plasterboard with a skim of finishing plaster and the yellow stuff looks like Gorilla Glue or foam from a can.

Why would there gorilla glue or foam behind the plaster? Curious

Undervalued

AdventureRocks said:

Murmansk said:

It's not the world's biggest hole! Put some filler it and smooth it with a suitable tool or the edge of an old credit card. Let it dry, do it again if it needs it. Sand it smooth with sandpaper wrapped round a bit of wood. Paint it.
To me it looks like plasterboard with a skim of finishing plaster and the yellow stuff looks like Gorilla Glue or foam from a can.

Why would there gorilla glue or foam behind the plaster? Curious

Probably because somebody before you had ripped down a bit of the plasterboard then glued it back in place for the same reason!