Hi,
I'm renovating and so on in my 60s house and I've already come across some asbestos in the building, and the more you read, the more you worry. Sawed off an old windowsill today to shorten it without thinking and afterward, it occurred to me that maybe it contains asbestos too? Does anyone have any idea? Attaching pictures of the mess. It looks like regular particle board, but I was mainly thinking about the surfaces.
Window sills with asbestos are usually made of compressed and polished eternit (asbestos cement) and are as hard as granite. In your case, the vinyl (plastic) might be vinyl asbestos (the pattern looks typical of it). However, I've never heard of it being used as laminate for window sills, for example. Still, I don't think I would be surprised if that were the case.
Asked the house owners' advisor and got the answer that "It is made up of several layers of plastic-impregnated paper, including a patterned surface layer of melamine (Krantz-Jensen, 1978:37) Tila was a competitor to Perstorp with similar products and was bought up in 1974"
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and afterward, it occurred to me that maybe it contains asbestos too? Does anyone have any idea? Attaching pictures of the mess. It looks like regular particle board, but I was mainly thinking about the surfaces.
