I had intended to remove the 1970s stippled paint coating on the ceilings of my house and since there are warnings on the web about possible asbestos content, I asked this group about safety precautions. The consensus was: don't touch it or just board it over.
I've decided that I really need to find out if it contains asbestos or not. I could rip off a small piece of the ceiling paper that it's coated onto, and get it tested. Commercial testing services that I've found on the web seem to expect you to take the sample to their premises where they'll charge you >£100 for the test. I'd have thought that local councils might have testing services, but I can't see anything on my local council's website. Any ideas about how this is normally done?