Please go easy on me. I have anxiety and I know I'm probably BU.
We recently bought a house, built in 1937. Recently refurbished and rewired by the seller, (who's an investor, so never lived here). We found some rubble on top of/behind a cupboard that looked like plaster board, presumably from a wall demolition or perhaps from putting a "hatch" in the ceiling. DH hoovered it up.
A few days later I started to worry that the stuff might have had asbestos in it. Some googling convinced me that asbestos can be absolute anywhere, even in plaster sometimes. I sent a sample off to a lab, which came back negative.
Since then I've become a bit obsessed with asbestos. We have bought lots of new furniture that we have attached to the walls, using a drill. (We have small children so this is a necessary safety measure.) I keep thinking "what if there's asbestos in this wall and we hoover the carpet and the hoover contaminates the rest of the house?"
There are no visible signs of asbestos anywhere, such as artex or other textured coatings, but of course I can't know that it hasn't been plastered over.
I feel like I want to test the walls in every room, or bring in an asbestos surveyor. But at the same time, I realise this is probably way over the top. People don't really test walls before drilling, unless they look like they contain asbestos, right?
Please be kind, I'm really struggling. I know AIBU may not be the best place, but there's just but enough traffic on the other boards.