1930s plasterboard ceilings (?asbestos content)
Alan Kennedy
I've just started renovating our 1936 detached house and was surprised
to find that all the ceilings are of boarded construction rather than
lath and plaster (which is what I would have expected). I know they're
original and haven't been replaced. The board is covered on both
surfaces by a coarse paper and the plaster itself seems to be white
(?gypsum) containing what looks like small chips of wood.
Questions:
1. Was plasterboard in common use in 1936?
2. Is they're likely to be any asbestos content in ceiling board of
that era (before I tear down one of the ceilings and cover the place
in dust!)?
Alan
Lee Blaver
I was surprised by this in our 1930's place, but I looked it up and
Plasterboard came over here from the US in 1917 :-)
Have a look here: http://www.gpda.com/student.htm it's right at the
bottom of the page.
Lee
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Charles Fearnley
"Lee Blaver" <cyberm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3E119342...@yahoo.com...
> Alan Kennedy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just started renovating our 1936 detached house and was surprised
> > to find that all the ceilings are of boarded construction rather than
> > lath and plaster (which is what I would have expected). I know they're
> > original and haven't been replaced. The board is covered on both
> > surfaces by a coarse paper and the plaster itself seems to be white
> > (?gypsum) containing what looks like small chips of wood.
Another possible idea is wartime replacement. Our 1933 house has
plasterboard upstairs, and lath and plaster down. I was told by older
residents that there was a bomb about 200 yds away, and that it knocked down
all the upstairs ceilings around - I suppose that an un-lined tiled roof
would not be much of a barrier to a pressurewave, so it does make some
sense. Most houses around us have similar up/down splits in their ceilings.
Charles F