Yes, it can be really scary when you think about it. Nevertheless, we are glad that you are in the best of health and hope that you can enjoy good health for a long time to come. Greetings from Germany!
Na, for it to be dangerous you have to create really-really small fibers, small enough to get down into your lungs, so for something that isn't soft and crumbly it takes saws, drills, sledgehammers, and total idiots to break the little lottery tickets of death out of the building material.
what i dont get is why they say just leave it there and it will cause no problems..what about future tenants/ buyers who arnt aware ?? its going to come down one day by someone .why would u say its ok to gamble on some poor person who may tear it down in years to come unknowingly???
It's always going to age and fall apart so coating it would make sense or removing. Anyone that says to walk on eggshells around this stuff is not helping.
We've recently bought a property we suspect will have lots of asbestos inside. The smart thing to do is bite the bullet and have as much of it removed as possible as we are removing a large internal wall, extending in the rear and renovating both the kitchen and bathroom. By having much if not all the internal asbestos removed, it will be a great selling point for future buyers as well as one less thing they'll have to worry about.
@@johnygthingasbestos is only dangerous when it becomes airborne and gets stuck in your lungs. You can cause more harm than good by disturbing it when removing it and causing it to go airborne thus causing more contamination.
I used to be an electrical contractor. The amount of asbestos products in the home is amazing. I can't tell you how many of those asbestos panels in the switchboard I've drilled through. Didn't know they contained asbestos. The worst job I ever did was rewire my auntie's house in Newcastle. The roof was corrugated asbestos and the ceiling cavity was dusty as all get out. No respirator, I crawled around in that ceiling for days. That was 30 years ago. I think I've been very lucky. Great video, looks pretty hot there, no matter what the temperature.
@@DB-ej3mw Thanks for the info Derrick! I did not know there was a link, but thinking about it, it makes sense that filling your lungs with gunk, and having asbestos also filling them...probably makes for a short fuse on your life.
@Rollie55 Well there's lots of awareness of asbestos, but near zero awareness of the products it was used in. If you live in Australia, just drive around and look for the roofs that are made of corrugated material. There are metal and asbestos corrugated roofs. The asbestos ones look dull and are usually a grey color, and the corrugation is, I guess, a larger wave form if that makes sense. A brief snapshot is @1:28 The asbestos dust just flows with the wind and onto the neighbor's laundry (they'll never know), and inside the ceiling cavity. I suppose a rule of thumb that I just figured out with building materials in old houses, if it's not made from wood, metal or plastic, you can probably guess it's made from asbestos. I bought a building in St. Louis 4 months ago, the floor tiles are made from asbestos! Best thing to do is paint it to encapsulate it.
Back in about 1998 I drove around Newcastle and compiled a list of addresses of houses with asbestos roofing. No roofing companies were interested in using it to target marketing for roofing products.
Twenty three years ago I ripped up a linoleum floor in our kitchen. Soon there was a deep cloud I could barely see my hands, keep going at it. Turned out, it was Asbestos. So far, no harm, still test has having strong lungs when tested.
Wow, 15 years ago I would snort lines of old drywall mud and eat the popcorn ceiling pieces. Found out they all had asbestos and now I’m getting a headache.
Here is something for you all to think about did you know they used white asbestos in the old movies as fake snow? one movie was the wizard of Oz and many others before and after its time and they also used to sell white asbestos as fake snow for xmas tree decoration 🤦♂️ I remove asbestos for a living and its only bad for you if you create dust and not wear the right equipment when removing it but if you think you have it in your house and want to remove it yourself safely i advise you to go do an asbestos removal ticket which will teach you on how to do it safely without exposing yourself and others plus you will learn about where asbestos comes from and why it was used 👍 Blue and brown asbestos is very deadly and white is quite harmless but only deadly when creating large clouds of dust so go do the one day course and educate yourself properly before touching it
@@nessav7258 that was probably the documentary on the ghost town Wittenoom and the blue asbestos mine that killed 90% of the residents. Fun fact, Midnight oil wrote a song about it called the (Blue sky mine)
I didn't know that, thats fucked up. When I was a kid my parents hired a guy to renovate our home (probably 2003) and they didn't use asbestos abatement professionals, just a guy named Rus lol. He tore down a wall in the kitchen etc. Do you think that at that time amateur renovators were aware of asbestos removal techniques? Or do you think we were at risk of the fibres?
@@SistoActivitatemAtm its hard for me to say if you were exposed to asbestos cause even if your house was built before 1990 not all houses had asbestos products used in them but if your wall sheets were asbestos it wouldve most likely been white asbestos which is the friendliest one out of the 3 and is only hazardous if youre cutting it with tools that create lots of dust but if he did it carefully enough without using a grinder and making too much of a mess you should be fine cause you can breathe small amounts of white asbestos without it being life threatening and yes back in 2003 builders wouldve already known about the dangers but the question is did he/they follow the rules/safety precautions back then when removing the stuff cause even today we have dodgy renovator's removing it and illegally dumping it.
@@addub25 thanks for the reply! Idk but lol I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt that is was above board cuz Id rather that hahah. I have one more question tho, I put up decorations using tape and pins on my popcorn ceilings - if the ceiling is asbestos, is it dangerous to use tape and pins? Or since it's only twice a year it's not a big deal?
@@allanwright5231 Wine filters, Kent Micronite Cigarette filters, respirator air filters, in a small display box I have in front of me on my computer table, AND probably in most people's lungs, including mine!
Not all, but a lot of them do. Asbestos related disease is the Number One occupational cause of death (Death caused by working). It kills more workers per year than injuries from using tools wrong, etc.
Well i guess you have a warm climate here i have gobs of asbestos in attic insulation and in the walls...its loose and pure asbestos...same rule dont mess with it...still my nose gets phlem and air feels dead in winter, home inspector friends with sales agent never told me about huge amount of asbestos
It was actually used as a strengthening agent in concrete, like fibreglass is now, and used in roads in the tar , anyone for recycled concrete and road base could be getting more than they bargained for
Can you paint over a popcorn ceiling that has asbestos? I was told that you should only use Vynal paint because other paints could expose you to the asbestos. I painted my ceiling in my newley purchased 1978 home with oil based kills primer before i found out it had asbestos. Lab test reported 2%.
Doesn't matter what type of paint. You are simply sealing over the asbestos. If you start knocking it down, you'll find asbestos fibers. 2%? I'd say 2% milk is worse than that.
Our corrugated asbestos garage roof got hail damaged. We had the roof replaced for a metal roof. The asbestos removalist said that the sheets came off cleanly and that there's nothing to fear. It's been over 2 years now, and I'm still paranoid to go in there, let alone give it a good clean. It now has to be cleaned up and the filthy carpet needs to be removed so that I can transform it into a food storage shed. It is very dusty there. A lot of plastic bags full of old sheets and clothing and a lot of cupboards and old drawers. Should I take the risk and clean the garage up the normal way, or should I not risk it, but instead, buy an asbestos mask, gloves, coveralls and eyewear? For a good 2 weeks after the asbestos roof was removed, I used my Winix ZERO+ PRO 5-stage air purifier. That air purifier is now back inside my bedroom and fitted with all new filters. I don't know what to do. I'm just so paranoid to go in there to clean it up, but I know that it has to be cleaned up so that I can make way for more storage space. I cannot find any information on the web on how to clean up a garage after an asbestos roof has been removed. Nobody teaches you about these things, and that scares the living crap out of me.
I’m 16 years old and we have a 50s house I think and my family and I have lived in this house for 16 years so my whole childhood but we just found out today there is asbestos all on the pipes and the whole air ventilation and all over the popcorn roof in the garage. And the heater has always been on with asbestos on the pipes and next to all the stuff in the roof My dad has had a cough for a long time and I’m worried it’s because of the asbestos and we’ve been breathing it in 16 years and I’m just so worried. And Ive also had a blocked nose for the last 3 or 4 years growing up. Do you know if this is because of the asbestos?
For peace of mind, get a building inspector in with knowledge of asbestos. The stuff is harmless until you make it into a dust and breathe it in. I also think you need to breathe the dust in constantly over quite a period of time. And it would probably need to be a dust cloud. Pay the $300 for someone to check it out, peace of mind is worth that.
After watching this...well i'm so tempted demolish my home and buy a "Romany gypsy" caravan...sell the plot of land after its been demolished...perfect solution ...i'm from the UK and have a lot of traveller friends , so we could all park up on the land if i didn't sell it...and it would be eco friendly :)
@@Itiswhatitispartna 80- 90 % of all cancers are caused by cigarettes and 4% by asbestos. Why don't we wear hazmat suites and respirators around smokers ??
Asbestos is all around that house and she keeps saying it's fine!! And she's asbestos awareness official something? Such con has a special place in politics!!
It's fine if undisturbed and in good condition. Only if you plan on renovating is it concerning, you need to wear the proper respirator. Think of it like spray paint, you need to be prepared to save your lungs and eyes.
