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Asbestos is given such a bad wrap that people thibk that if you look at it, it will zap you with cancer rays and you'll die within 20 mins
How flippant . Tell that to my uncle . Oh that's right, you can't, because he is dead.
The people that got cancer were mostly.people inhaling the stuff for 30 yrs day in day out with the dust everywhere
Not true. According to the experts, you can get it from just one fibre lodging in your lungs. You can be lucky... or unlucky.
Thay being said thay Asian Melbourne lady got skin cancer from going to a solarium a few times
Basically if it's untouched it's fine
If it's damp, you can crack it and you'll be fine, unless you decide to snortit like cocaine
It's only if it's dry and there is dust going everywhere it's considered arisk
If I recall correctly if you are removing n internal walls you have to wear a mask and leave it for an hour or something, whatever the sqm formula is
So hardly going to hang around for ever
Not true. According to the experts, you can get it from just one fibre lodging in your lungs. You can be lucky... or unlucky.
Hi Wylie
Not being flippant as The Asbestos Society is a group I donate to and have had an (older) friends brother pass on due to Mesothelioma (they grew up in Wittenoom), is the below correct
The underlined bit is truly BAD advice. Just don't touch it at all. If it is intact you are fine. Don't drill it, don't cut it and don't smash it up.
We just had kitchen, bathroom, two small bedrooms, a toilet room (walls and ceilings), a downstairs store room and a downstairs toilet removed professionally. The professionals wear appropriate clothing, wet it down, remove it in large sheets if they can, wrap it properly and dump it appropriately. The cost was $4,700. They vacuum the area and hose the walls down with a PVA glue in the water to ensure the fibres don't fly about when they dry out. That is my understanding anyway.
My understanding is that the dump fees are very high. This job took one loooooong day and they took away two truckloads of asbestos plus the bath, timber cupboards and the kitchen. Part of the quote $500 was for the removal and dumping of the bathroom and kitchen fittings but saved us several dump trips, plus we didn't have to get dirty.
We could have done the plastering, but got a professional in to replace the upstairs walls and ceilings for $4,900.
It adds $10K to our son's house, but next purchaser will not be scared off.
It's usually your eave sheets, shower/bath wall sheeting under the tiles, external cladding on some old places and if your really unlock you might have it as roofing.