Exposed to asbestos under carpet padding!! Now what???
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Slab under asbestos tiles under 1/4' luan...?
Comments (4)There is a product called DeltaFL...and others out there that may be the ticket for you. The website below gives an idea of its applications. HD, Lowes and others sell a product from Canada that is similar and has 24" X 24" (I think that's the size) T & G OSB board panels attached to the plastic dimples. If someone has used this product, or an equivalent, could you share your experience? Here is a link that might be useful: DeltaFL...See MoreUnder the carpet--what is it?
Comments (5)If I could pull my carpet back and find that, the carpet would be out of here and that linoleum shined up! You have it and don't want it; I don't have it and wish I did. Some things in life just aren't fair. Before I went to the work of taking it up I would lay new subfloor over it being as careful as possible. Maybe someone in the future would love to find it waiting for them....See MoreAsbestos again - floor tile and adhesive removed now what?
Comments (20)anglophilia- I'm sorry your husband died of cancer. However, that does not mean that since he he didn't die of an asbestos-related disease what you did with your floors was necessarily safe. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Many people have exposures to toxic materials, even multiple ones, and it doesn't cause them health problems or kill them...but some are affected. In my posts above urging caution, I'm not suggesting that if you have an asbestos exposure it will kill you...it's just that you want to minimize avoidable exposures. I have a 93 year old relative who is still alive after decades of smoking and working around asbestos, and I also know of a 30-year old who died from asbestos exposure as a result of a several week summer job he had in college. Risk is a complex issue that depends on many factors, including genetics. One can't predict which individuals specifically will come down with a disease from a certain type of toxic exposure; we can only see what the overall incidences are and try to help people avoid taking risks that might make them one of the unlucky ones. We are all exposed to nasty stuff, often without realizing it. Typically, larger exposures --- such as occupation-related ones -- are more concerning. But there are some substances, such as asbestos and lead, where the medical and scientific communities have yet to find any level of exposure/intake that is guaranteed safe. People want risk to be black and white: it will kill me or it won't. But most environmental concerns aren't like that, so we have to live with a wide spectrum of gray, and make personal decisions on how cautious to be or not. I know for certain something will kill me some day, but I try to avoid making choices that will possibly speed that up.......See MorePositive Asbestos Air Quality Test, what now?
Comments (7)i guess i wasnt understanding. i thought you meant to retest my materials that i sampled and i didnt feel the need to do that. But i will retest the air after i let my air purifiers run for a few days... i dont even know if air purifiers help. there is zero information out on the internet, which is crazy because you can search for a tree octopus and find it, so how has this question never been asked?...See MoreUser
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