do you have plasterboard on your walls?

Vintagewhine

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

Me too 👍🏻

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

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.

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 😩

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Artex and wood chip hid a multitude of sins!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

SueDonim

That’s right, Artex did used to have asbestos in it. So did ironing boards! You remember the old style, that had a greyish pad on the end where the iron sat? That was asbestos!

Disease from asbestos can take anything from ten to sixty years to show itself.

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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.

I think the real problem asbestos is blue asbestos, which was used in, mainly commercial buildings and some blocks of flats.

This type of asbestos seems only to have been used in construction. All asbestos is a carcinogen but most of us, and our parents had asbestos on our ironing boards and corrugated asbestos/cement sheets on our garage roofs. yet there has not been an epidemic of people dying of asbestosis.

What causes the cancer associated with asbestos, is asbestos dust, for that reason we must be careful about disturbing any material in our houses that might contain it. leave it untouched and well painted and the danger of getting asbestosis is almosst impossible.

My deepest sympathies go out to SueDonim for her loss to an asbestos caused cancer

When DD sold her house last year the surveyor reported that the terminal of the flu on the roof of the house was made of asbestos, her buyer got in a panic and reuested a full asbestos survey and no asbestos was found anywhere in the property anywhere, except the flue terminal on the peak of the roof of a 2 storey house.

The same was in our last house, found on the terminal area of redundant flue. Everyone was happy to have encased in plastic.

That’s right, Artex did used to have asbestos in it. So did ironing boards! You remember the old style, that had a greyish pad on the end where the iron sat? That was asbestos!

Disease from asbestos can take anything from ten to sixty years to show itself.

I am sure I read somewhere that back in the 80s, asbestos was mixed in artex plaster.
I hope I am totally wrong.

MT62

I should have explained that it wasn’t actually plaster board, but stone wall covered in like a solid artex like stuff, that was then troweled off into triangular shapes, if that makes sense?
I could have been lime plaster but not sure.
Whatever it was it felt like concrete.

Monica

I should have explained that it wasn’t actually plaster board, but stone wall covered in like a solid artex like stuff, that was then troweled off into triangular shapes, if that makes sense?
I could have been lime plaster but not sure.
Whatever it was it felt like concrete.