How big a deal is asbestos in your home?

[Gizmosgremlins]

We are hopefully buying a 1970s bungalow. The survey has flagged some likely asbestos (ceiling tiles, garage walls, heating cupboard, soffits). We are going to get a more specific asbestos survey done but I'm struggling to get my head around the possibility of being told it's safe and to just leave it be. My husband thinks this would be fine and that it is common and safe for people to live alongside asbestos. So, am I being overly cautious or he is being overly blasé. And if we do need to remove it, is it horrendously expensive and disruptive?

Get a survey. Asbestos if undisturbed can be fine.

We had it in a previous house.

it was part of some ceiling boarding that had been used. We were told it was fine if undisturbed.

when we did building work we had to get specialists in for extraction and disposal but it wasn’t hideously expensive.

@Gizmosgremlins did you buy the bungalow in the end? Did you get the asbestos removal? We are currently going through the exact same process and are having a survey done on a 1970's bungalow. It has the patterned ceilings and we think the survey will flag up possible asbestos.

It's awful isn't it i grew up in a bungalow and worry about yellow fuzzy cladding around our boiler that I used to pull. Was that asbestos and and weird pattern on the ceiling etc.
My current house is a terrace but has white icing like stuff on the ceiling also

Where else is this stuff lurking

Also when we had our kitchen redone really old plastic style tiles where hidden under the floor and the builders just ripped them out .

We are fully prepared that we may need to get it all removed. Luckily we love the bungalow enough to get it done and have the money in the budget to do it if its needed. I think I would worry living there if its found without getting it removed, although apparently its fine if its not disturbed! 😬