do you have plasterboard on your walls?

SueDonim

It’s all dangerous to varying degrees. There is a range of conditions associated with it, pleural plaques, asbestosis and the worst, which my Dh had, mesothelioma. There is no cure. It’s a rare condition overall, (about 2500 cases a year in the UK) but because of his work, one in ten of his former colleagues have died of meso and others have the other conditions. It’s a very high attrition rate.

My brother also died of it last year. He was a motor engineer, in the days when brake pads were made of asbestos. Like my Dh, he was overall fit, healthy and active for his age until struck down.

Sorry for the loss of your husband & brother Suedonim.
I did a motor vehicle course at college. We were told never to blow the dust off the brake pads, only to brush the dust gently, which now I still think it could be airborne.

MissAdventure

I have artex throughout my flat (I'm tasteful like that!)
No doubt it contains asbestos, but I understood that if its intact, its fine.
It's when it is flaky that's tje problem.
Is that right?

Depends how old the house is, or when Artex was applied.
My mums house built in the nineties has Artex ceiling. The hall ceiling is partially hideous, to me it just looks like someone’s slapped on royal icing on the ceiling that has dripped into peaks & troughs.
My hubby who was fitting a new light, had to come home to get a bobble hat as the Artex was scratching, his head & making it bleed 😩
It’s the most hideous stuff ever produced & I don’t know why builders use to put it on ceilings in new builds.
Even our 90s house, every ceiling Artex. Had them all flat plastered years ago.
You can actually depreciate a houses value by having Artex apparently.

Yes, MissAdventure. It’s the fibres that are dangerous so it’s best left undisturbed.

I've been in this flat for forty years, i think, and it was here when I moved in.
Mine is particularly ugly artex.
At least it's rustic rough looking, and not the big, stylised shell patterns.

It was considered quite an art years ago.

The bits that aren't artexed here are wallpapered..... in woodchip!

Artex and wood chip hid a multitude of sins!

Yes, I think that's why its been done.
I can't say I'm that bothered, quite honestly.

They're just walls, as long as they hold the ceiling up, I'll make do.

I have lots of cluttery bits anyway, so a lovely wallpaper would be wasted here.

We had artexed ceilings throughout the previous house.
OMG is that why I have Bronchiectasis? This thread has got me anxious - my 3 children grew up in that house. I hope they are going to be ok.

90% of ours is wooden planking and exposed brickwork but there is plaster in the bathrooms and 3 of the bedrooms. The others have horizontal wooden panels. The thing that makes me sneeze is more the carpet I think so I have to keep vacuuming all the time. We have cats so they shed a surprising amount of fur, always dust around.

We have plasterboard on the ceilings and on a couple of new stud walls following a renovation project. All are properly skimmed, primed and have several coats of emulsion which is the norm I guess so I think the OP tickly cough has another cause.

Do you take any medication for high blood pressure? Ace inhibitors are known to cause a dry cough.

I took Ramipril and after 3 months a dry tickly cough started which got worse. When my medication was changed the cough totally disappeared.

It’s worth looking at the leaflet for side affects for any medication you are taking.

Vintagewhine

Do you take any medication for high blood pressure? Ace inhibitors are known to cause a dry cough.

Gosh yes when I was on a Ace bp drug, I would practically be coughing up my lungs at night 😩

Astitchintime

We have plasterboard on the ceilings and on a couple of new stud walls following a renovation project. All are properly skimmed, primed and have several coats of emulsion which is the norm I guess so I think the OP tickly cough has another cause.

Plaster board is quite safe.

Yes I developed a dry cough and doctor changed my prescription to losartan. Dry cough disappeared.

Vintagewhine

Yes I developed a dry cough and doctor changed my prescription to losartan. Dry cough disappeared.

Me too 👍🏻