It looks like we have gray boards 110X110cm (about 3 mm thick) in the ceiling of the basement in the house.
It looks like there's a few mm of plaster and paint and then a gray board that's nailed up, and behind that, there's maybe 20 mm of plaster again. The house was built in the 1920s but has been renovated in stages, including a major renovation in the 60s.
Can I tear this down in the ceiling? Are these asbestos boards? Is it common to have 20 mm of plaster in the ceiling?
It looks like there's a few mm of plaster and paint and then a gray board that's nailed up, and behind that, there's maybe 20 mm of plaster again. The house was built in the 1920s but has been renovated in stages, including a major renovation in the 60s.
Can I tear this down in the ceiling? Are these asbestos boards? Is it common to have 20 mm of plaster in the ceiling?
Nothing in the picture looks like eternit to my eyes at least, paint, plaster, and some kind of masonry block. Boards 110*110 could be eternit.
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The dark gray, perfectly straight board turns out to be a fiber cement board 110X110...
Just leave it as it is.
Thanks for the response anyway!
Just leave it as it is.
Thanks for the response anyway!
unusual to have that on the ceiling. boiler room?
had you sent a sample?
had you sent a sample?
Well, I thought it was a bit too clean to be a boiler room. But it could have been.
I haven't sent it for testing. Had a construction buddy over who said it is most likely eternit.
The dark gray board is about 3-5 mm thick, rock hard, and 110x110. It's plastered over half of the ceiling which was previously a garage but was converted into a workshop, no boiler room though. It seems illogical to put it up there and only on half the ceiling, the rest of the ceiling appears to have a thick layer of plaster resulting in a height difference in the different parts. It could be that such boards are also under the thick plaster... ...exciting...
The dark gray board is about 3-5 mm thick, rock hard, and 110x110. It's plastered over half of the ceiling which was previously a garage but was converted into a workshop, no boiler room though. It seems illogical to put it up there and only on half the ceiling, the rest of the ceiling appears to have a thick layer of plaster resulting in a height difference in the different parts. It could be that such boards are also under the thick plaster...
...exciting...
it looks like eternit but just from the pictures, I probably wouldn't be able to distinguish it from some minterit-like sheet.
The fact that it is on the ceiling of the garage/workshop also suggests that it is eternit because it was commonly used as fire protection.
The fact that it is on the ceiling of the garage/workshop also suggests that it is eternit because it was commonly used as fire protection.