Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Aug 04, 2017 2:45 pm Hello everyone - newbie to this forum. We have just bought a 1950s WB house in Tasmania. The house is tenanted until March next year and we don't want to intrude on the tenant. We actually live in Victoria and won't be able to do any work until next year anyway. In the meantime, we're trying to get to grips with the amount of work needed to bring this older, rental property up to an owner occupied, holiday house standard. So far we've only had a couple of hours inside the house and an issue has arisen which could turn out to be a money pit. The interior walls and ceilings are "plastered" using 6' x 3' sheets of an unknown material. The surface of these panels is either textured at manufacture or rendered since. All the joints have cracked and are very visible. They have been painted and currently have a semi-gloss paint. They look dreadful and I am terrified that they are asbestos cement sheets. My wife wants them gone and the walls and ceilings plastered with Gyprock. This seems pretty straightforward and an opportunity to rewire and insulate. But if it's AC sheet, I imagine the removal will have to be done under controlled conditions by licensed contractors costing who knows what? Does anyone know these or similar sheets? What material are they? Re: 1950s plaster panels? 2Aug 04, 2017 6:56 pm I don't think anyone would be game to give you a definitive answer based on a couple of pictures placed on an Internet forum for fear that the advice is wrong and someone dies. We have plaster board in a 1930s cottage which looks similar, and that is a mat of plaster and a natural fibre, probably coconut or similar; however, it is an unfortunate fact that building before the mid-1980s was the asbestos heyday in Australia, so it would be best to err on the side of caution. Asbestos is relatively safe provided it stays in its bonded form as it is on your walls, but I really think you need to get the wall material tested for asbestos, which can be done very cheaply, before you start to disturb anything (even just sanding to smooth it out). Please have a read of this section of the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency website: https://www.asbestossafety.gov.au/asbestos-information#home-owners-and-renovators-obtaining I certainly hope it turns out to be benign. Re: 1950s plaster panels? 3Aug 04, 2017 7:21 pm Thanks for that - all good stuff. It will be some time before I'll be in a position to get it tested, but that's what I'll do of course. It's certainly not that pre-war fibrous stuff that I remember from my youth seeing in tips and such. I can understand folks not wanting to give advice but I thought it worth a try on a forum like this that it might be likely that some one says "Aha! I had sheets that look very much like those. In my case they turned out to be ......." Re: 1950s plaster panels? 4Aug 04, 2017 7:41 pm patmiller I can understand folks not wanting to give advice but I thought it worth a try on a forum like this that it might be likely that some one says "Aha! I had sheets that look very much like those. In my case they turned out to be ......." Well, I hope that's what happens. Hello - we were hoping to apply laminate click lock panels to our concrete ceiling, but not too sure how to go about attaching the panels to the concrete. Any idea what… 0 1680 0 10939 Hi, Have used the Dulux 1 step, oil base on my walls(white set), out of can it’s already a more thinner product than a final coat paint Also in water base Water or… 3 5024 |