Today i smashed up the old water tank in my loft and took it down the dump. I then found it was Asbestos!!. Does anyone know what are the risks ive been exposed to? ive hovered the loft and at the moment the asbestos is at the bottom of my garden.
Course you'll die !! But I doubt from Asbestos, I've sawn it, drilled it, laid it on roofs and even cut it with a disc. Been for chest x-rays, no problems clear. Now there will be other who will frighten you to death with there replies, you'll see. Any particularly flowers you would like when it happens?
Having looked on a few websites it does seem that risk through exposure to 'asbestos cement' is a liitle overhyped. Nothing i can do about it now anyway! i did think to myself that thousands of people around the world must have done a similar thing and they cant all be dead
It's probably white asbestos - in which case no real problem. If blue or another kind there could be a risk - but most of us have been in intimate contact with asbestos anyway by various routes down the years. You only live twice and you only die once!
Asbestos was an extremely common building material in the 1950s. The house I grew up in had drain pipes and soffit boards made of it and, even the kitchen work-tops made of some kind of asbestos compound!
I've always wondered how much of a danger that posed to my health. But I've made it to 50+ without a hitch...
Unless you used an industrial vacuum, you've spread the asbestos particles everywhere...anyhow asbestos takes about 40 years to kill you, so I wouldn't worry too much! ;-)
The guy at my local dump throws a real wobbly if you go with asbestos, I'm curious to know what you are going to with it eventually, bury it perhaps? seems to be the traditional remedy :-)
Others have answered that, and the rational view seems to be "minimal"
That's a bit unfortunate, as the dust will be spread around. A reasonable precaution now might be to throw away the vacuum cleaner bag and any other disposable filters it may have, and wipe its insides down with a damp cloth that you then throw away. In theory, you should perhaps dispose of any clothes you were wearing that were exposed to a lot of dust, but a compromise would be to wash them all, with no other stuff in the washing machine. Theory states that fibres may remain in the washing machine.
as it is at the bottom of many people's gardens, I imagine.
Check your, and neighbouring, local authorities' asbestos policies. Some treat it as rather more dangerous than plutonium, others will let you tip it if you double-wrap and label it, and one or two will even collect it free. You shouldn't need to pay a private tip for that quantity.
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