buying house with artex ceiling - asbestos scare

user1977

Annemos said:

This was after the artex ceiling was removed. It had asbestos in it.

I only attached the photo so people would know what was involved if they did not overboard or skim an artex ceiling.

You don't need to remove the whole ceiling to remove the artex.

Annemos

This was the contractors of the insurance company.

They had to do other subsidence cracking repairs. I think they have to go on the side of caution, because the contractors are dealing with such things all the time and have to be kept away from any asbestos risk.

If people do skim over their ceilings etc to cover up asbestos. Then they have a water leak above, they would still end up with my state of affairs anyway, I presume? If they claimed on insurance and it was deemed a valid claim. 

74jax

deejaybee said:

Fair enough - i know that my plasterer dosnt like doing the scraping ,  he always ask me if i am going to do it, so i bring out the dodgy knee excuse or similar :-)

I'd change your plasterer.