Is this asbestos?

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Quick question, will that yellow stuff kill me? And if anybody is good at identifying wood could you hazard a guess as to what it is? Thanks :)
 
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think asbestos is either white or brown.

I'm colourblind so don't take much notice of colour, but I think that's right.
 
Looks like insulation foam boards, not asbestos although you still don't want to breath in the dust when smashing or sawing it up, makes you cough abit :) Although for the amount you got there and outside its nothing.

There is a lot of worry about asbestos, worst stuff is the blue asbestos usually found in pipes, the sheet stuff on roofs etc is not so bad as its mixed in with cement. Ive taken down roofs and smashed pipes out, just hold you breath ;)
 
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Do be careful not to breathe fibreglass as well. It aint good for you. Try not to handle it directly either.
 
Thanks, it's an old bedroom door. I was just trying to salvage the 'frame' wood to use in some CBG necks, but i assume since this is of a 'middle' part that was holding some glass it will be a different type.
 
Only testing will tell, colour is irrelevant Asbestos was used in everything and age discolours it and the materials it surounds.

If you don't know it isn't you are legally required to assume it is and act accordingly.

Given it is around steel column it is fireproofing of some sort and if it is over 20 years old theres a good chance it could be.
 
Only testing will tell, colour is irrelevant Asbestos was used in everything and age discolours it and the materials it surounds.

If you don't know it isn't you are legally required to assume it is and act accordingly.

Given it is around steel column it is fireproofing of some sort and if it is over 20 years old theres a good chance it could be.

There's no steel, only wood.
 
Christ, when I was a wee lad I used to play in a disused farm opposite my house, the place was full of old corrugated asbestos boards. Smashed em up for years, never did me any harm. HNNNNNNNNNNGGGGG.
 
The picture is soooo needed right now

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no, it's fiberglass foam.

asbestos is hard and comes in sheets/blocks - it doesn't crumble anywhere nearly that easily.
 
Then get one fibre in a lung and develop mesothelioma. Super sweet!

but not really.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...ve-asbestos-ads-were-wilfully-misleading.html

Health and Safety Executive asbestos ads were wilfully misleading.

The HSE's radio advertising campaign was designed to promote panic in the pulic, says Christopher Booker.


By Christopher Booker
Published: 7:09PM BST 03 Oct 2009

One of the more disturbing stories that this column has followed over the years is that of the Health and Safety Executive's co-operation with two professional lobbies which stand to make billions of pounds out of promoting a confusion between different forms of asbestos. The HSE used to be quite clear that two forms of asbestos – blue and brown – are genuinely hazardous, but that white asbestos, by far the commonest type, poses "virtually zero" risk to health. It is a quite different mineral, usually encapsulated in cement for roofing, guttering and so forth.

As happened rather earlier in the United Stated (as recounted in Scared to Death, the book I wrote with Richard North on scares), the confusion deliberately promoted between these different substances has given rise here in Britain to two amazingly lucrative lines of business.

One is run by those law firms which, as we see from the way they tout for business with regular advertising campaigns, make fortunes chasing compensation from insurance companies on behalf of people who can claim to have been exposed to any type of asbestos at work. The other is run by those specialist contractors, licensed by the HSE, which are able to grossly overcharge homeowners, businesses, churches and housing associations for the removal of harmless white asbestos cement.

The HSE has been shameless in conniving with both these rackets, not least by putting out advertisements designed to panic the public into falling for the wiles either of the lawyers or of rapacious removal contractors. That tireless whistleblower on asbestos scams, Professor John Bridle (long championed by this column) was so incensed that he complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that five of the HSE's radio commercials were wilfully misleading. Citing only data previously published by the HSE, he showed that the figures it was now quoting for asbestos-related deaths were wildly exaggerated.

The ASA has upheld all five of his complaints and ordered the HSE to amend its figures. Despite this reverse, the HSE will surely continue to sow panic. And Prof Bridle, through his Asbestos Watchdog website, will continue to help members of the public (including many Sunday Telegraph readers) to escape the clutches of the racketeers, often giving free advice while saving them sums totalling millions of pounds a year
 
no, it's fiberglass foam.

asbestos is hard and comes in sheets/blocks - it doesn't crumble anywhere nearly that easily.

Abestos is a mineral fibre that is prevalent in about 70% of the earths crust and has beeen in use since the roman empire.

The form of asbestos depends upon the matrix it is contained in in its raw state it is a fibre, aminute one thus the reason it is so dangerous as the human airway cannot filter it.


Intersting story:

Steve McQueen died of lung cancer and while he was a smoker his first job was in the shipping yards where raw asbestos fibre was used, his second career was in films where asbestos was used as fake snow, and his third career was as a racing driver where their flame proof overalls were made from asbestos. Poor bugger was knackered all the way.

And as i said before if you don't know for certain it isn't you must assume it is.
 
It doesn't appear to be asbestos cement or lagging from the photo. I would guess it was some form of faom.

All airborne particles should be treated with respect and appropriate precautions taken, MDF, fibre galss and asbestos will all upset your lungs to differing levels of severity.
 
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