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Thanks pro Dave yes there is a wooden lintel above the door I though that was just the door frame as there is not lintels on above the windows or externsl doors . Is this normal would you say to have lightweight bricks above the internal doors . As I though it was odd blue breeze blocks all over then these above the doors . I wasn’t sure if it was some sort of asbestos board but it’s 100% a greyish breeze block Thanks

Hi thanks for you reply but the bungalow has been in my family since new and has had no work done to it ever I just find it odd that it’s a different type of breeze block above the internal doors a d just wondered why these were used . Thanks

Hello I am wondering if anybody can help me I have a 1960’s bungalow and it’s built using blue breeze blocks but I have notices on above the internal door it’s a light coloured breeze block. I found this out my knocking on the wall and above the door frames it sounded less hard if that makes sense. I noticed abit of the player had come away from one of the walls and I noticed the breeze block above the door was light grey but all other are blue. I had read about thermilite blocks and I just wondered if people knew why is was a diffeeetn colours breeze block above the doors . Thanks in advance

Thanks for your time and detailed answers , I don’t no why I’m thinking it was asbestos insulation board I’m sure th plasterer would have know and wouldn’t of smashed homes in it if it was asbestos , i think it’s because the ceiling was just boarded it had never been plastered , it just had a weird paint on it like a chalky paint I think distemper and then a textured pattern on top . I think I thought it was asbestos board because it wasn’t plastered and I just didn’t exspect a plastered board just to be paint with a textured paint to be the finished ceiling I though all ceiling would be plastered or am I wrong

Hi thanks for your reply it’s a extension on a bungalow with a flat roof so I can’t access it . I just wanted to no from people experience if they tend to find ceilings that have been boarded out with asbestos insulation board , thanks

Yeh he was late forty been doing it all his life , he said it was just plaster board but you hear horror stories on line , out of curiosity though have you ever know people to have ceilings completely boarded with asbestos boards not the ceiling tiles , thanks

Thanks mr punter , it was 2 years ago now. Have you ever know a complete ceiling be boarded with asbestos insulation board in a normal bungalow. The plasterer at the time never seem to think anything was sinister , thanks

Hi , many thanks for taking time to read this , currently I have worried my self to sick and I am at my Whitt’s end. A couple of years ago I bought a house the house was completely empty and I was having the artex plastered over but in one room the plaster wouldnt stick to the ceiling so the plasterer said he needed to over board it. Before over boarding it the artex had nearly peeled over it has been painted with a chalky white paint ligule if been distemper it’s something like that and the plaster just would stick so Hence the boarding . To find the joist he just hit a hole in the ceiling to board it. After reading about older properties this is a 1965 ish property but the room in question was an extension built in the mid 1970’s and I have read about asbestos insulation boards are sometimes used in the ceilings and as the plasterer just smashed through these to reboard the ceiling I am having a meltdown . Before reboarding it I remember seeing the ceiling it had not been plastered it was just painted and had a textured pattern in but the pattern just came off pretty easy, the ceiling looked white and smooth but I could see the gaps wear the boards met. Have any of you plasterer’s ever known a ceiling to be boarded out with asbestos insulation boards . I no people had ceiling tiles made from asbestos but these looked like plaster boards but I’m just worrying they could be of been asbestos insulation boards. Many thanks in advance for any replies .

Hi new to the forum just have a few questions i would really appreciate your help,