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Default What's this fibrous stuff? (pic)

On 28/07/2019 18:43, ARW wrote:
On 26/07/2019 21:01, wrote:
On Friday, 26 July 2019 15:20:14 UTC+1, R D SĀ* wrote:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-J...lArOViXINqsHNN

What does that look like?

FWIW it seems to be collecting in a rattan blind so presumably coming in
from outside.


glass fibres, not in mat form. Used to reinforce plastics. Or plastic
fibres to reinforce concrete. With no scale indicated it could of
course be who knows what else. Doesn't look like asbestos.



The first thing you are taught on an asbestos awareness course is that
it is impossible to tell if it as asbestos just by looking at it.


With the naked eye. You can quickly identify many things with a suitable
microscope. The glass fibres in "modern" cement/fibre board are more
regular than asbestos, for example. IIRC the usual procedure to confirm
asbestos involves an optical microscope with polarisers.