Can anyone help me.
Cleaning house siding with asbestos tiles.
There is no legal requirement to do so nor is there significant real estate benefit.
Asbestos siding achieved its height in popularity between the 1920s and 1970s.
Lead paint wasn t outlawed until 1978 so it s sure to be present on siding going back to the 1950s.
Largely for peace of mind however they wanted the stuff completely eighty sixed from the house.
Cleaning this siding takes some care since asbestos could be released into the air and cause health problems for those present.
Let the siding dry then prime and paint with the best exterior latex you can find.
I d like to remove it and put on new siding but that job is prohibitively expensive right now.
I have an old house with asbestos cement siding.
Cleaning tips for vinyl asbestos tile.
Asbestos shingles are relatively strong but.
Clean up for something like this could cost even more money.
In the 1950 s and 1960 s asphaltum a by product of petroleum manufacturing was substituted as the binder.
They opted to have tom rip out everything down to the aggregate and pour a new concrete subfloor rather than cover the contaminants.
Just paint the siding and seal the asbestos in.
So i think i ll just put on a fresh coat of paint.
The asbestos in cement asbestos siding products is not friable under normal conditions.
Wrap asbestos siding in 6 mil thick plastic sheeting and secure the plastic with duct tape or place the debris in heavy duty plastic bags.
Do not throw or drop removed asbestos siding.
After asbestos was found in the basement s resilient tile and wood subfloor the sharmas had a choice.
These materials are known as fiber cement siding and they contain no asbestos.
However very work asbestos cement shingles or shingles that are mishandled during demolition breaking into many small pieces running power saws to cut the material risks creating airborne.
That is it is not normally easily crushed into dust by hand.
Cementitious siding installed after 1973 is very unlikely to contain asbestos.
Hi i just bought an old house that has cement asbestos shingles.
The cost of removing asbestos entirely has a wide range of costs depending on where the asbestos is located.
It was originally manufactured using material taken from natural deposits of pitch.
Covering old asbestos shingles with new siding may seem like an option too but it s not easy to do safely.
Work from the top down removing the snails to keep from breaking the asbestos siding.
Cement asbestos siding tiles do not need to be removed simply because they contain asbestos.
Posted by 517 at 11 22 am on may 19.
Containing asbestos might mean encapsulating the asbestos tiles in the basement instead of removing them altogether.
Containing the asbestos typically costs 15 25 less than removal because you won t have to pay for disposal costs.