Thread: Asbestos....

One of the first things we did in the house we live in now was to rip out all of the carpets. We have a 2 and a 4 year old

I lived in a house on a major road in southern Sydney for a couple of years. The house was always full of dust. You could clean the place from top to bottom and within a week it would be covered again. The dust was almost black - no prizes for guessing where it was coming from.

When a little lad aged 12 (28 years ago !!) I took great delight in playing with molten lead, pouring it into home made sinker molds, casting it into toy soldiers and burning myself (still have a scar).

As a result I often wonder what my lead levels are. We also lived near a busy road, so guess this explains why I keep making fortunes and then loosing them………… also why my head feels so heavy at times

Cheers

Dave

Originally posted by davo453
so guess this explains why I keep making fortunes and then loosing them………… also why my head feels so heavy at times

Cheers

Dave

Are you Alan Bond? :eek: :eek:

would explain a thing or two wouldn't it

I was looking at buying 2nd hand roof framing timber from a wrecker (advertised in the trading post) who fortunately made the mistake of admitting that the roofing covering hed just removed was asbestos but that it would be OK because it had rained lightly overnight.

Spoke to my local skip guy the other day who told me he would be happy to take asbestos away at around (I think) $300 for 2 cubic metre bin. The material has to be wetted down and completely wrapped in plastic sheeting. This sounds like a really good deal to me and he even told me the tip that he takes it to. I checked up and that tip does take asbestos. Does this sound on the up and up to you guys? Should I even care?

Just bought a house with AC sheeting on the roof, it will come off soon. I spoke to Reeds in Melbourne about the cost of taking away 100m2 and it would be $1000 so now all I have to do is remove it.

Now being the home owner and not employing anyone to remove it for me then the 10m2 regulation does not apply, it does not become a workplace.

All I need to do is satisfy the council and workcover of correct removal procedures if they front while the job is being done and of course get sweet with the neighbours because they are the ones that would dob me in I suppose.


Daniel

When I lived in WA we used to visit Witenoom gorge and throw the stuff at one another, when an apprentice we used to cut the stuff with power saws all the time, at least 3 times per week and when I first came to live in the country I used to roof piggeries with it.... all the time cutting the corner laps with an angle grinder. As a lad I worked for a while in a brake service, I used to go home black as ink every night covered in the muck. A young woman employee of my wifes' had her mother-in-law die 2 years ago from asbestos lungs and she had only helped put a new ceiling in a bathroom. I have had a number of x-rays and have never shown anything, I feel like I could have been just a tad lucky!!! :eek:

edited to ficks the speling

now for something realy scarry. :eek:

The hardest asbestos containing items to replace an one of the last accepted uses of asbestos was the filiters used to filter beer.

I'm not sure when they finaly found a replacement but this new chill filtering process seems to be part of the answer.

I'm not a beer drinker!

In the electrical supply industry we are only just starting to come to terms with the enormous amounts of asbestos which has been installed. From the bonded compound which sits in the customer meter board to the extensive use in substations for insulation of both electric arc heat (arc chutes) to electric insulation of high voltage cable ends which is normally friable asbestos bandage. Very dangerous.

To this industry asbestos was the wonder product

Not no more :eek:

Asbestos was all over by 1985

Actually Asbestos was all over the place by 1985. I too have a house clad with Asbestos. And as I was suggested here before if you do not disturb it you will not get disturbed. But I have trees planted which ocassionally rub againt the wall, will that cause the asbestos to fall into the soil below and if yes will get mixed wiht the soil and be burried or is it lighter and can be blown away by wind?

Before I got a removal license we used to do it like in the attached photo.
Makes me cringe every time I see it. This on a government contract in 1973, and get this, at Darwin hospital.
We were a dumping ground for asbestos products in the 80's. What they couldn.t sell down south we got in the north.
Cheers
Bill

Originally Posted by some_one

Actually Asbestos was all over the place by 1985. I too have a house clad with Asbestos. And as I was suggested here before if you do not disturb it you will not get disturbed. But I have trees planted which ocassionally rub againt the wall, will that cause the asbestos to fall into the soil below and if yes will get mixed wiht the soil and be burried or is it lighter and can be blown away by wind?

just did a quick search - flat asbestos containing sheet (fibro sheet) was banned in NSW and SA in 1982 (didnt find for other states) and all australian production of flat sheet was discontinued in 1983. (court documents)

Some super 6 type roofing was still going untill 1985 - presumably just for repair of existing roofs). The constant use of "mid eighties" in the guidelines for asbestos, seems to be about covering their ????, as its possible that some builder bought sheeting in 1981-82 and kept it in his shed for 3 or 4 yrs, and it also includes super 6 that way.