Eternit board/Asbestos

[kemaldev]

Hi, I'm currently tearing down the apartment and found a board at the end of the wall that was sticking out, which I thought was a masonite board they had added.

Now that I've removed a piece of it, I noticed there were pipes behind it and got a bit anxious that it might possibly be asbestos.

I asked the housing association if they had any information on whether there was asbestos anywhere in the apartments in the building before we started tearing down, considering it's a building from the 50s/60s, and they replied that they hadn't heard anything from those who had renovated anyway.

Is there anyone who is a bit more knowledgeable that can answer whether the pictures below show asbestos or not?

 

[HSP]

Looks like an eternit sheet...

 

[huggan]

High probability that it is asbestos. Call your municipality to find out where they accept it and how they want it packaged.

 

[kemaldev]

That was less fun to hear, should one hire a saneringsfirma or try to take them down oneself in as whole pieces as possible and sort them correctly at the recycling center? There is an identical skiva on the other side of the wall and potentially two more on another wall in the living room.

 

[Isakare]

Fire insulation of a pipe shaft.
Why would you touch that ??
Probably more apartments have the same board over the shaft, maybe all of them ??
The board is harmless where it was. Wet it with water, wrap it in plastic, take it to the waste station.

 

[kemaldev]

Fire insulation of a pipe shaft.
Why would you touch that ??
Probably several apartments have the same board over the shaft, maybe all ??
The board is harmless where it was. Wet it with water, wrap it in plastic, drop it off at the waste station.

Fire insulation of a pipe shaft.
Why would you touch that ??
Probably several apartments have the same board over the shaft, maybe all ??
The board is harmless where it was. Wet it with water, wrap it in plastic, drop it off at the waste station.

There was wallpaper over it that we wanted to remove and the wall was sticking out there, we wanted to even it out because it was ugly. We didn't know what was behind it and the HOA couldn't answer either when I asked, so we simply had to check.

 

[Staffans2000]

There is no reason to soak the disc and even less reason to hire some guys to come and pick up the discs.
Asbestos doesn't bite.

Staffans

 

[useless]

There was wallpaper over that we wanted to remove and the wall protruded there, we wanted to even it out as it was ugly. We didn't know what was behind and the housing association couldn't answer that either when I asked, so we just had to check.

What type of fire protection are you planning to replace the boards with?

 

[kemaldev]

What type of fire protection were you thinking of replacing the boards with?

Unsure actually, what would you suggest?

 

[imported_Benno]

Plaster is suitable, but why should you even touch it at all?

 

[kemaldev]

As mentioned, we did not know what was behind it and could not get an answer from the brf. There was a bulge visible on the wall and it sounded hollow, so we wanted to see what was behind it. Had we known it was eternitskivor and that pipes were going through there, we would not have touched it at all.

 

[Robert-san01]

The tricky part is that you have likely breached a fire compartment. In apartment buildings, I wouldn't be too surprised if IE120 is required.

Can't you put everything back and plaster the wall?

 

[kemaldev]

I can't put that one back since it broke. But there is an identical panel (whole) on the other side of the wall. And two more identical ones on either side of another wall. How would you have leveled the walls?

What is IE120? I can't find anything about it online.

 

[Düsseldorff]

EI 120 it should be. A fire rating.

 

[Robert-san01]

Correct, it should be EI.

You cannot take any of the other boards. There must be boards on all 4 sides for the fire cell to be functional.