You've explained this far better than anyone else has to me, 10 years a carpenter doing renovations, I was only told to look for the fibres. So much doubt over the years
The boss at my work in 2017 though it was a good idea to break these off the ceiling because it had "concrete in it to weigh down the fiber" and now basically i probably have 50 years to live maximum 60 because of it
I believe because it makes it safer to handle. The fibers are much less likely to become airborne if they are wet. Especially if you are breaking it, as he has done.
What are the hair like fibres in villaboards ? I have a plasterboard type partition with white hair like fibres it’s from 1930s I was worried it was asbestos.
If you have asbestos in the house just get suited and masked up and quietly remove it . Don’t buy into the drama of paying so called experts to remove it because they use it as an excuse to charge an arm and a leg plus take your left testicle for it . They use scare tactics to extract hard earns cash from you . It’s nothing to be worried about and perfectly easy to remove it without any negative effects .
I like the video but this is very very un accurate and misleading. You have the right idea, but the amount of times we have had Villaboard come back from the lab positive is kind of becoming humerous. The company James Hardie, had no idea what to do with their left over stock when all the Asbestos building bans got introduced in Australia, they had MILLIONS of sheets that they would have been forced to send to landfill which would have cost an ungodly amount of money and most likely would have bankrupt the company, but they decided it would be a good idea to chuck a big green stamp on every sheet saying "ASBESTOS FREE" or "MANUFACTURED WITHOUT ASBESTOS". Send any of that to a lab and it will come back positive everytime. Also i know you had it dunked in water but asbestos doesnt hold water, so when you snapped it you went and released a bunch of fibres into the air while trying to tell us the dangers of asbestos. All in all, great video, just needs some proper facts.
That's just an older type of asbestos. There's a few types with out the dimple back.. pink hardiflex is one that looks like modern day fibro on the back
When a piece of calcium silicate board containing asbestos is cut in half, fibers are released during the cutting process. Will there still be fibers running out from the cutting edge after cutting?😥
Great Video on fibro panels. One 3rd test is: because asbestos panels are more solid they have a ring to them when they are dropped onto solid concrete that modern day villaboard does not have. Make sure you can drop both to compare the sound.
Oh. That`s exactly what I need now. Our house has been boult in 1995. So, I was sure it`s completely asbestos free. However today I started bathroom renovation and noticed too hard surface of the wall sheets. And yes they have dimples on the bottom side. Very similar with asbestos. Please, have a look yadi.sk/d/0x_o-AAtXgCeyA Some names and codes are noticed as well. It`s called as a "Villaboard" Type B Cat C. And somethink like Hardie`s on them. Does anybody knows whether this is a real asbestos product and how dangerous it is? Is it harmless to remove it myself or it`s a deal for asbestos removal specialists? Thank you
i m from india and we still use asbestos..well i didnt know about the danger untill 2 days ago and now i m worried.. in our village every 3 out of 5 house roofs are made of asbestos sheet and if i tell them its dangerous like cigeratte they will think ..i am mad.
