Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 74,109
And I don't mean if it falls in on my head.
Neighbour in next door flat is selling up to the inevitable buy-to-letters. Their solicitors is going through searches on our crappily 70's-converted house-into-flats property with a fine toothcomb. As well as laying down the law on many layers of expensive new fire regulations more fitting to a hotel, we also apparently fall foul of something called the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. In a nutshell, we are apparently 'legally bound to identify the presence of suspected asbestos containing materials'. which appears to include Artex ceilings and walls from the 70's and into the early 80's. This alarms me somewhat, has to be said, seeing as how I'm basically living in an Artex box and have been doing so since 1995. Anybody know if I should be unduly alarmed about this or if I'm already a dead man walking. Should imagine there's thousands of properties in Brighton & Hove and further afield in a similar situation, and you only really ever hear about older schools having their asbestos stripped off by men in white overalls wearing breathing gear. How come nobody ever told us about the health risk to homes?
Neighbour in next door flat is selling up to the inevitable buy-to-letters. Their solicitors is going through searches on our crappily 70's-converted house-into-flats property with a fine toothcomb. As well as laying down the law on many layers of expensive new fire regulations more fitting to a hotel, we also apparently fall foul of something called the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. In a nutshell, we are apparently 'legally bound to identify the presence of suspected asbestos containing materials'. which appears to include Artex ceilings and walls from the 70's and into the early 80's. This alarms me somewhat, has to be said, seeing as how I'm basically living in an Artex box and have been doing so since 1995. Anybody know if I should be unduly alarmed about this or if I'm already a dead man walking. Should imagine there's thousands of properties in Brighton & Hove and further afield in a similar situation, and you only really ever hear about older schools having their asbestos stripped off by men in white overalls wearing breathing gear. How come nobody ever told us about the health risk to homes?
