No don't be sorry you feel how you feel and that's ok and understandable. Stuff online is scary but my doctor said he doesn't see families doing diy projects all come down with this. It's often people in trades who have had years of exposure, I think your mum has just been very unlucky getting this. I understand it's scary coz you don't know where she got it from but like I said before you can't let the anxiety take over and destroy your life. Your ok now, live in the present. Keep smiling xxx here if you need to talk 

If anyone who has been involved in this thread is still looking I'd like to just add my own worries to the mix - 2+ decades of living in two different Victorian semis and being a keen diy-er merrily filling cracks in walls/ceilings, drilling holes, etc etc then in 2019 a big ground floor refurb involving builders knocking down internal and external walls with dust flying everywhere.

All the while living in the house with wife and two kids.

Never once did it occur to us that asbestos might be present anywhere in wall or ceiling plaster.

Only very recently did we stumble on info that suggested we could well have been wrong, and could have been / still are living in clouds of asbestos fibres.

I have literally gone to pieces with worry - it's such a trauma if feels surreal. So many stats and percentages of cases/deaths etc but no amount of this detail seems to help.

Awful. I do really feel for all the people on here with similar worries.

Ceiling plaster/  artex tends to be 3% asbestos and the white type which is the least harmful. Its not even illegal to remove white yourself. Speclists are required for brown/blue as the percentage so much higher.

Hi all,

Had the same paranoia as all you lot Victorian house which I knew the ceilings have asbestos in but decided to remove one myself. What a waste of time spend the whole week panicking since and considering I work in the construction industry I know the consiquensss much more.

Was done over several days 12m2 artex plasterboard with lath and plaster underneath going at it taking pieces off with a recip saw while soaking the ceiling. Did I release dust yes was it the artex dust I don't know.

You will go through mental blocks if you read that either 1 fiber will kill you or months/years of exposure will kill you but nothing can change it it now.

Only think that shocked me was how many celebs have died from asbestos 

Hi Daniel, 

Just been reading your post as I have had a similar incident of exposure recently and been worrying myself sick and petrified that everything around me is contaminated from the event, its exhausting.

So its been really reassuring reading your pos, I appreciate it was posted a long time ago but I noticed you mentioned you had some info from an asbestos professional on the matter, do you happen to still have this? As I'm really struggling with it all at the moment!

Again I appreciate this post was several years ago I just happen to come across it trying the silence my obsessive mind.

Kind regards

Huw

Hello, I've just read this entire thread, after realising that I've likely exposed myself to asbestos unknowingly a few years ago. I'm now freaking out about it and can't stop thinking about it.

The previous, 1940s, house that we lived in had stippled ceiling in the two rooms upstairs, and I decided I didn't like them, so I removed one of them. At first I tried sanding it, which didn't work well (I can't remember how much dust this generated), so then I resorted to scraping it all off the ceiling over a few days. I'm pretty sure  didn't wear a mask, and even if I did, it wasn't sufficient to protect me from asbestos. That was in 2020 or 2021, and I only found out last year that it could have contained asbestos. We don't live there anymore so I can't even get it tested to put my mind at ease.

Also while we were there a gas installer dug a trench internally right across the living room, which had those brown vinyl tiles. I think there is no chance that they weren't asbestos, and god knows where the dust from his work ended up.

I just wish there was some way to check your exposure levels, but you can't, you just have to wait and see whether you get sick with an incurable illness, and it's terrifying.

Did anyone above get that information from Daniel, it might help put my mind at ease?

Danieluk37  and Deedee4321 please could you share Daniel's research and facts with me? I've add you both as friends. How are you both doing with regards to your asbestos concerns? I'm really struggling with asbestos anxiety (even from walking past buildings where DIY/renovations are being undertaken. I'm sure I just need reliable facts rather than the scaremongering you found on the net. Thanks in advance, Emma