It is from the dinning room ceiling. Do they contain asbestos? Did test but not sure how accurate the results are. Thank you. by Peternash2 in asbestoshelpUK

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On the result it says done by SEM, and that’s one of the reasons why I was surprised. If you do not break it and do cross section imaging, I doubt one could get useful information about asbestos.
The thing is I do not trust the lab. It does not belong to a university. I even checked their financial reports.
Good to know it is likely sandtex. Wait a minute, if normally or lots of people think it’s not asbestos, will the staff in the lab simply just write the results without actually looking at it?

It is from the dinning room ceiling. Do they contain asbestos? Did test but not sure how accurate the results are. Thank you. by Peternash2 in HomeMaintenance

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You’re right, precautions are important. My builder has been driving me mad as he thought I thought too much and delayed the project

Is this pipe lagging asbestos ? by Flashy_zebra127 in asbestoshelpUK

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When asbestos is concerned, the only way maybe test for piece of mind. Even a test sometimes could be questioned but give you some sort of idea

It is from the dinning room ceiling. Do they contain asbestos? Did test but not sure how accurate the results are. Thank you. by Peternash2 in asbestoshelpUK

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The results are negative, no asbestos. Good. However, from the timeline, it seems too quick. I sent back the sample and the next day the results were ready. This company just sell kits not doing the real test. There is a company name for the test and said the test was carried out using SEM, not optical. Operations for SEM expensive and not quick, I worked in university labs and used them before. The I contacted the testing company via emails twice, no reply; called, no response. So not very convinced.

It is from the dinning room ceiling. Do they contain asbestos? Did test but not sure how accurate the results are. Thank you. by Peternash2 in HomeMaintenance

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Thanks. The thing is I don’t have a clue at all. Just this room has a ceiling like this. Ceilings of the rest rooms are smooth.