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Thanks for the links. Not really too fussed about having it tested if it can just be skimmed over. It’s a very small space - 2.5m x 2.5m - so the total job cost is only around £200.
It does seems to be quite a contentious issue though. I’ve had two more quotes from other plasterers - one who says he doesn’t scrape high points because of the asbestos risk, he normally does 3 coats instead. The other though, similar to @Nef thinking above, says he’s done thousands of artex ceilings and adamant that there’s no risk, quote “there’s only 0.08 asbestos in them ceilings”. This fella says the problem with not scraping the high points is the more layers of plaster required to cover puts a lot of weight on the ceiling.
So it’s 2-1 to the scrapers right now and to be honest I have no idea who’s right.