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If it's a toss up between an agonising and undignified death from mesothelioma, or taking the word of a person whose only qualification is that he's a plaster, then I'm obviously totally on the side of the person that will walk away with money in their pocket.
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Am I the person walking away with money in their pocket or am I dead in this scenario?
I thought I’d reached a point where it’s a toss up between an agonising and undignified death from mesothelioma or a sudden ceiling collapse causing an untimely death by suffocation.
So far all the opinions are from people who are plasterers, they just happen to disagree with each other.
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I mean, if you want to exercise that level of diligence, you’d pay professionals to remove the artex entirely at great cost.
It’s not a binary thing tho. Yes asbestos is bad, but exposure levels and asbestos type play an important role in the calculation of the risk.
Fyoosh
Nef
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.