Asbestos removal home office

[MrMarkyMark]

My local big tip will take asbestos on appointment, it needs to be double bagged in thick plastic sealed with tape.

Packed for export to China

[barrydidit]

My local big tip will take asbestos on appointment, it needs to be double bagged in thick plastic sealed with tape.

That's andyw's mums monthly bed sheet launderette trip you're thinking of.

There are 4(?) different types of asbestos of varying degrees of nastiness. Unless you know which you've got, and how it should be removed, I'd not touch it.

[TestMangler]

Back in the dim and distant past when I was at school, you got your own little personal asbestos sheet for science classes. Carried it about in your school bag too

[Hobosapien]

Back in the dim and distant past when I was at school, you got your own little personal asbestos sheet for science classes. Carried it about in your school bag too

I'm still waiting for asbestosis from playing around in some old garages built of the stuff when I was a kid, where there were lots of broken panels/tiles.

These days the equivalent risk to lung disease/cancer may be microfibre, carbon fibre, silica dust, ... anything with small enough particles to get deep into the lungs where the normal mucus protection is useless.

Ain't tech wonderful.

[SueEllen]

I'm still waiting for asbestosis from playing around in some old garages built of the stuff when I was a kid, where there were lots of broken panels/tiles.

These days the equivalent risk to lung disease/cancer may be microfibre, carbon fibre, silica dust, ... anything with small enough particles to get deep into the lungs where the normal mucus protection is useless.

Ain't tech wonderful.

You more likely to die from air pollution.

[Lance]

It's come to light during refurbishment of a single room in my home (where all my office work is undertaken) that there is asbestos within the tiles on the roof.

have you rung (rang?) your council? They may well take it as domestic waste for free. I did a few years ago and all they asked was that I booked it in and double-bagged it.

[Hobosapien]

You more likely to die from air pollution.

Hope so, or the vehicles that cause the air pollution. They're easier to spot.