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Email is the only channel. There is no phone line and no contact form.

Asbestos@use.startmail.com

What email is good for

Corrections, particularly ones that quote the sentence and point at the source that contradicts it. Sources worth adding. Questions about something a guide says, or something it should say and does not. All of that is genuinely useful and is the reason the address exists.

What email cannot do

It cannot tell you whether the material in your house contains asbestos. Nobody can do that from a photograph or a description, and that includes me. Asbestos is confirmed by laboratory analysis of a sample collected by a person accredited to collect it, and that is the only answer worth acting on.

So questions of the form “here is a photo of my ceiling, is this asbestos?” will get an honest but unsatisfying reply pointing you at an accredited inspector. If you are planning work that would disturb suspected material, that is the call to make, and it is worth making before the work starts rather than after.

What this site does not offer

No sample testing or laboratory service. No abatement, removal, or encapsulation work. No contractor referrals, and no passing of reader details to anyone. No legal advice, and no medical advice. For questions about exposure and your health, that conversation belongs with a doctor.

For how the guides are researched, written, and corrected, see the editorial policy. The guides are written by Mark Taylor.