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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Asbestos was used for it's fire resistance. Is there charcoal inside?
  • james 239james 239 Posts: 50
    I’ll have a fiddle with it tomorrow and try and get the videos posted. That white block could be asbestos from a quick google but hard to tell.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If it could be asbestos for goodness sake take some proper precautions ... you may need to call in the professionals to deal with it .. it can be nasty stuff  ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Or it could be ceramic fiber.  
    Utah, USA.
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    My OH thinks it's the air vent for a nuclear bunker. Does James live near Greenham Common by any chance?
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why is there an insole in the hatch?
    A pre-febreeze plimsoll as in pre-trainers deodoriser prototype. It could be put in hotel rooms next to the trouser press and fold up thing you never put your suitcase on.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    Have you had a firtle around where it's concreted into the ground? Do you know the extent of the concrete at its base? I can't imagine it was intended to put anything inside as there's no access apart from that grid, so I think the possibility of a vent to provide air to a structure underground seems the most plausible. I don't really buy it being over 45 years old and if it was for a WWII air raid shelter it would have to be 70 years old, which it clearly isn't. Hence hubby's idea that there might be a fall-out shelter under your garden :)
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Have to say, l can almost see it in Tate Modern.  
  • james 239james 239 Posts: 50
    I'm going to get an asbestos test on the items in the container before I crack it open.
    Stay tuned. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    james 239 said:
    I'm going to get an asbestos test on the items in the container before I crack it open.
    Stay tuned. 
    Good ... sensible decision.  OH's lovely dad died of mesothelioma before he'd even reached retirement age  :'(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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