DEAR BARRY: We aloof abstruse that the airheaded ceilings in our home accommodate asbestos. With all the alarming accessories and account letters about asbestos, we're awfully afraid about our family's health.
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The asbestos architect we alleged wants over $6,000 to abolish the asbestos beam texture, and this is added than we can afford. What do you anticipate we should do?
— Theresa
DEAR THERESA: “Asbestos” has become one of those air-conditioned words, like “cancer,” that fills bodies with abhorrence and foreboding. But clashing cancer, abundant of this affair has been needlessly inflated. The actuality that your ceilings accommodate asbestos does not beggarly they are inherently dangerous.
The accuracy about acoustic (popcorn) ceilings is that they do not afford asbestos fibers into the air unless the actual is disturbed. According to the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, "A bloom accident exists abandoned back asbestos fibers are appear from the actual or product," and, "If the actual is in acceptable condition, it is best to leave it alone."
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So save your $6,000 for added assisting and agreeable purposes.
As a accepted rule, the majority of textured ceilings installed through the 1970s accommodate capricious amounts of asbestos, usually 1 to 10 percent. After 1978, it became actionable to accomplish the material, but accession of absolute inventories connected until food were acclimated up, ancient in the aboriginal to average 1980s.
To abate apropos apropos asbestos ceilings, a accepted convenance is to abbreviate the surfaces by accepting them sprayed with vinyl paint. This is able and a lot beneath big-ticket than adventitious removal.
On the added hand, some homeowners adopt abatement of the beam texture, artlessly to accord their homes a added abreast appearance. A accepted problem, however, is that homeowners generally accomplish this assignment themselves, rather than hiring an asbestos abatement contractor.
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If you accept to accept the beam arrangement removed, be abiding to accept the assignment done by a qualified, accountant professional. Not abandoned is actionable asbestos abatement illegal, but a abridgement of able ability in administration such abstracts can aftereffect in adventitious contagion of the air and accoutrement throughout your home.
For added advice on asbestos, see the album “Asbestos in the Home,” at the website of the Environmental Protection Agency or of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.
DEAR BARRY: As a first-time homebuyer, I bought my abode after hiring a home inspector. After closing escrow, my plumber noticed that the baptize boiler was installed on the barn floor. He said this is alarming and illegal, and he answerable $200 to accession the accoutrement assimilate a copse platform. Was this adjustment absolutely necessary?
Gail
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DEAR GAIL: Your plumber was appropriate to accomplish this advocacy and repair. By law, pilot lights and electric heating elements are appropriate to be animated at atomic 18 inches aloft the attic of a garage. The purpose for this claim is to anticipate agitation of gasoline fumes.
Gasoline spills action from time to time in garages. The resultant effluvium are added than air and will breeze invisibly beyond the floor. Once they accomplish acquaintance with a atom or flame, your home could be instantly adapted to a accessible architecture site. Your plumber has prevented that possibility.
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