Celotex sheathing

[Daniel Theis]

Anyone familiar with this product. It's a Celotex fiber board used as interior sheathing on a house built in 1940. I'm wondering it is likely to also contain asbestos?

thanks,

Dan

[Jeffrey R. Wicklander]

If it's the black fiberboard, probably not. The only Celotex brand material that I think contained asbestos were the wraps produced for insulating piping. To be sure, send a sample off to a lab.


Jeff

[Robert W. Jude]

interior sheathing? in place of drywall?

[Daniel Theis]

Jeffrey, it's just brown, both sides.

Robert, yep, interior sheathing, no drywall. Although the label says it can be used as lath, they mostly just wallpapered over it.

I have already removed a sample to send in for testing. Just thought I'd see if anyone had first-hand knowledge of the product first.

any suggestions for reliable labs to send it to, with halfway decent response times? Or just pick one and go?

thanks again,

Dan

[James E. Braun, CMI]

EMSL is where I send Asbestos samples. Also had good service from the them.

[Felicia Bree]

Originally Posted by Daniel Theis

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Anyone familiar with this product. It's a Celotex fiber board used as interior sheathing on a house built in 1940. I'm wondering it is likely to also contain asbestos?

thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

I found the same type of Celotex sheathing in my bathroom. Did you send a sample to have tested? If so, will you share the results?

Thank you!

Felicia