Asbestos in your Home
Identifying Abestos in your Home
It is possible that any house built before the year 2000 may contain asbestos but the risk is greatly increased in houses built between 1950 and 1980. Over the years we have found asbestos in the strangest of places and of course the more mundane and easily identifiable.
The main places that asbestos is found in domestic properties are:
- Rainwater pipes
- Soffits / fascia
- Garage and shed roofs
- Internal partition walls
- Bath panels
- Central heating flues
- Floor tiles
- Insulation panels in some storage heaters
- Bath panels
- Central heating flues
- Floor tiles
- Water tanks
- Toilet cisterns
- Artex
- Fuse Box
- Heating cupboard
Watch our video about Asbestos in the Home
If you do suspect that an item within your home contains asbestos, dont touch it; call us and we will arrange for one of our team to take a sample and provide you with free impartial advice. The illustration below was produced by the HSE to show the possible locations of ACM’s within a house.