Asbestos in woodchip

[Monkey]

I want to get rid of some ugly woodchip paper on my ceiling. I hear there is a possibility it might contain asbestos. Has anyone encountered this problem? What did you do?

I hear you can skim over woodchip but my ceiling is sagging after a major leak so ideally I wanted the whole ceiling removed...

Any help much appreciated.

[uncleglen]

I would imagine that the use of asbestos in this situation, where it could be disturbed, would have been outlawed years ago. (There was a frantic flurry of activity removing asbestos from schools in the early '90s). You might want to look it up on google.

[Mustard]

Are you thinking of that weird swirly plastering stuff on ceilings instead of woodchip. Can't remember what it is called. I had heard that could contain asbestos, but never woodchip. Woodchip is just wallpaper invented to cover uneven walls. It literally has tiny chips of wood in it. It was in every room of my first flat and I managed to steam off most of it eventually.

[grabot]

Interesting Mustard. I didn't realise, until you pointed it out, that Artex can contain asbestos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artex. Scarey, there's a lot of that stuff around!

[Mustard]

Thanks for coming up with the correct word!