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Asbestos

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MrCurry · 01/06/2025 20:16

Gov.UK says: Asbestos may be present in any house or building built before the year 2000 as it was widely used in a variety of building materials.

My house was built in 1969 - is there anyway I can find out if, and where, asbestos is in the house.

How do builders working on older properties deal with the possibility of asbestos being present.

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Ecthelion · 01/06/2025 21:52

You can hire a professional to do an asbestos survey in the area the builders will be working in. We've had to do that twice in advance of building projects. They have a visual inspection and take samples of anything that looks suspect. If there is some then it can either be tagged so no-one interferes with it, or encapsulated (painted), or removed.

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