In by m Ransley on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:12:57 -0600 we perused:
*+-I would wash things down to remove the dust, you really dont want it
*+-sucked through the heating system
This is the best advice posted here. I got the same advice from one of the leading asbestosis doctors around. Next time if you remove it, wet it first so it stays put. Chances are if you can't actually see it, the threat is not that great. But be especially careful of fabrics - the stuff tangles into fabrics and releases slowly. If it went on a rug, throw out the rug. Tell us more as to what you mean you removed them. From the whole house? Or only one room? Did you remove the sheetrock with the popcorn on it (prolly safer) or did you shave the popcorn off the sheetrock? (As to the brake wiseguy, I know another brake worker who died of mesothelioma.) However, the ceiling asbestos is probably "white" which is several orders of magnitude less hazardous than "blue" or "grey". (To put it in perspective, fiberglas is in turn several orders of magnitude less hazardous than "white", and sand is several orders of magnitude less hazardous than fiberglas.) Most plaster from
1920-1980 is like one third asbestos (it looks like shattered eggshell by now), even what you got if you broke your arm. The Vermont mines were a cheap source back then, and they used it everywhere (and do I mean everywhere). Before that they used straw or horsehair. The reason I'm telling you this, is you need to take things into an ambient perspective. I mean the guys who built the house probably spread some of it around, as well. I once read ages ago (like the 1950s?), they let small furry animals run around inside vent systems to clean them. If you can, get hold of a specialist. Try to get your contractor or insurance to help pay for them. You have to realise that every time you make a jerk pay for being a jerk, you not only get satisfaction, you're probably saving someone else's life. Approach your local NSPE.org or ASSE.org. They can measure how much airborne asbestos there is after the cleanup when you have the HVAC running. Still, you have to be agressive and like turn on all your appliances so the vibrations release the max that will be released. Try to understand what makes asbestos so bad - it's got the longest naturally occuring aspect ratio. It's hairy rock. Mesothelioma is to lung cancer what pleurisy is to pneumonia - the stuff pokes its way out to the OUTSIDE of your lungs, not just the inside.
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist
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