Asbestos cement boards?

[Allinug]

This wall and ceiling covering, originally from 1961, in a laundry room can hardly be anything other than eternit boards?

Is there any danger in keeping them in a damp environment, like it can be in a laundry room?

 

[Jonatan79]

This wall and ceiling cladding, originally from 1961, in a laundry room can hardly be anything other than eternit panels?

Is there any danger in keeping them in a humid environment, as it can be in a laundry room?

Well, I've never seen that model. I think more on another type of boards for wet rooms.

 

[MathiasS]

It is perhaps the world's best material as long as you don't touch it. As long as you don't need to saw it, break it, or similar, it is completely harmless where it sits.

Nor is it a significant problem to remove the boards whole. You take pliers for the nails and lift the boards out in one piece.

EDIT: that doesn't mean this is asbestos cement. Need to see more. Unusual color for it, the nails, however, are correct.

 

[Allinug]

Removed this plate. The material doesn't seem very flexible, more like ceramic. One corner broke. The plate is stamped "Eterni MADE IN BELGIUM." That sounds suspiciously like asbestos cement, but maybe there was a company called Eterni?

 

[Jonatan79]

Unscrewed this plate. The material doesn't seem very flexible; it's more like ceramic. A corner broke. The plate is stamped "Eterni MADE IN BELGIUM." That sounds suspiciously like Eternit, but maybe there was a company called Eterni?

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Oops, suspicious with that stamping. But as mentioned, low or no risk to let it stay in place.

 

[Johan Gunverth]

It's probably just the stamp that missed. "Eternit" is just as notorious in Belgium as in Sweden.

 

[Allinug]

It seems that eternit was also very big in Belgium.