I was recently asked to do a small job for a friend while he and his wife were away for two weeks.
he wanted three ceilings skimmed, two over artex one which was heavily textured and had to be scraped while the other was a shallow popcorn effect, the other had just been plastered and painted.
the painted ceiling and the popcorn artex ceiling were fine. but on the other ceiling, a small piece of plaster came off when I removed a few pieces of wall paper that had recently been covered by the top of a wardrobe. it just happened to be right where the ceiling curved too. I covered it with scrim tape and it held fine until I started to skim over it. the fresh plaster pulled the scrim tape off and the plaster under it and quite a large strip of plaster across the room. the joint had been covered with hessian to help the plaster stick to the joint where the ceiling curves. when the plaster came off, I found out that the ceiling and the stud wall had actually been covered with sheets of asbestos instead of plasterboard, the plaster also peeled off the wall when I removed the wall paper too.
the asbestos hasn't been disturbed and it hasn't broken, but as soon as I saw it was asbestos I quickly left the room.
is there anything I can do to repair the section where the plaster has fallen away, or should I be suggesting that all the asbestos sheets in the wall and ceiling are removed properly?
I'm guessing that it isn't advisable to skim over asbestos sheets, or to screw through it to fit plaster board to it?
he wanted three ceilings skimmed, two over artex one which was heavily textured and had to be scraped while the other was a shallow popcorn effect, the other had just been plastered and painted.
the painted ceiling and the popcorn artex ceiling were fine. but on the other ceiling, a small piece of plaster came off when I removed a few pieces of wall paper that had recently been covered by the top of a wardrobe. it just happened to be right where the ceiling curved too. I covered it with scrim tape and it held fine until I started to skim over it. the fresh plaster pulled the scrim tape off and the plaster under it and quite a large strip of plaster across the room. the joint had been covered with hessian to help the plaster stick to the joint where the ceiling curves. when the plaster came off, I found out that the ceiling and the stud wall had actually been covered with sheets of asbestos instead of plasterboard, the plaster also peeled off the wall when I removed the wall paper too.
the asbestos hasn't been disturbed and it hasn't broken, but as soon as I saw it was asbestos I quickly left the room.
is there anything I can do to repair the section where the plaster has fallen away, or should I be suggesting that all the asbestos sheets in the wall and ceiling are removed properly?
I'm guessing that it isn't advisable to skim over asbestos sheets, or to screw through it to fit plaster board to it?