Recently had remedial damp plastering completed for bottom third of our lounge wall, all the way around, so wallpaper on rest of wall needs to be taken off and walls prepped for wallpapering again or painting.
Current wallpaper is a textured paper wallpaper used most likely to cover up a slightly uneven surface from previous old works (it's an old house 1900s). So happily stripping it off this afternoon but found various orange-clay type marks, amongst other imperfections and thought, crikey.. asbestos.. forgot all about that.. what's this orange stuff - is it asbestos?? And what's the wall surface made of generally, the old section from centre of wall up...?
In the lounge it's textured paper wallpaper. In the dining room on the chimney wall, it's a vinyl type wallpaper.. previous owner lived here for 30 years.
I've taken some photos. Do we have any cause for concern that there could be asbestos? Can I continue stripping or should we stop now and simply plan to re-wall paper over existing paper?
Would be really grateful for some advice. Many thanks.