Asbestos / Artex

[skimmin2day]

Any of you guys ever get the artex tested for asbestos ? Or do you just rely on pot luck

Personaly i no longer touch the stuff unless im 100 % certain its 1990 onwards.

What are your views on this ?

 

[spunkybum]

get the customer to scrape it back the day before

 

[christ]

then tell them its asbestos

 

[GDS]

i just scrap and pray mate , i heard that there is almost no asbestos in artex .... not enough to do any harm if jut scrping down any way, dont know if my sorce is corect thow . :-\

 

[spunkybum]

;D ;D

 

[skimmin2day]

you cant take chances with something this deadly.Asbestos kills thousands and thousands every year.
get it on your clothes, go home cuddle the kids,covered in the s**t, your source is stupid and so very very wrong son.

 

[GDS]

thinken back mate i think my source was a customer that wanted the job doin cheeper when i first qualified. sh#t god bless me

 

[iain_flanagan]

if it has a bit late now, scraped down no end of the sh*t :'(

 

[spunkybum]

ive never heard of plasterers dying from asbestos ......

 

[GDS]

god bless us all for the future

 

[spunkybum]

i swear i just jinxed someone :-\............. ;D

 

[iain_flanagan]

shouldnt worry about that what about all the hardwall,finish,especially dri-wall adesive sitting in ya lungs

 

[spunkybum]

.............it just gets better .......is that why 90% of plasterers are piss heads?....we all suffer from dry mouth syndrome

 

[iain_flanagan]

 

[GDS]

that last one just reminded me i ran out of magnes time to refil........ ;D

 

[phippsy333]

1971 to 1981 artex contains white asbestos, the blue one the real dangerous one, but should always wear a mask for any scrape down...but lets be honest the feckers still airborn for hours....and 9/10 times its in me tea too