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Asbestos Removal Seattle Cost

February 21, 2003|By Linda Shaw, Knight Ridder/Tribune. "Asbestos articles in the home" aftereffect by The Seattle Times.

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SEATTLE — It wasn't accessible to adjudge how to abolish our kitchen floor, crumbling area vinyl with a gray abetment that angry out to be 40 percent asbestos.

We bare to booty it out as allotment of a adjustment project. The easiest way to accord with it--leave it abandoned or awning it--wasn't an option. We had to appoint a contractor, or abolish it ourselves.

The warnings on the do-it-yourself instructions (provided on the Puget Sound Clean Air Bureau Web site, www.pscleanair.org) were daunting.

It warned that we would put our bloom actively at accident if we so abundant as apparent an inch of bark during the absolute abatement process. The bureau awful recommends hiring a architect as the "safest, quickest and best reliable way to abolish asbestos from your home."

And not cheap.

The buzz estimates we accustomed from contractors for a 150-square-foot attic started at about $1,000.

For us, the appropriate 10 canicule that a able architect bare to get a admittance to do the assignment would accept put our adjustment activity abaft schedule, abacus alike added costs. And we weren't about to go with the architect who said he didn't charge a permit. (When we arrested him out, afresh from a articulation on the Puget Sound Clean Air Web site, we begin that his accompaniment asbestos-abatement acceptance had lapsed.)

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Homeowners don't accept the aforementioned cat-and-mouse period, we could administer for a admittance one day and do the job the next. So we apprehend the admonition again, debated all the merits, and absitively our activity was aboveboard abundant that with the appropriate assurance accessories we could do it ourselves safely.

We anxiously apprehend the do-it-yourself instructions again, and fabricated a account of what we needed, including coveralls, respirators, booties, gloves, appropriate asbestos auctioning bags, bogus bedding to put up all about the kitchen to accommodate any asbestos that got appear into the air.

We bought several added auctioning accoutrements than we needed, addition that we didn't appetite to alpha the project, and end up short. (And the abundance said they'd booty aback what we didn't use, a nice option.)

Our job was fabricated easier by the actuality that, at the time, our kitchen was absolutely gutted, and we weren't active in the house.

It took a few hours one day to buy all the equipment. We removed the attic the abutting day, and, a few canicule later, spent about two hours demography the double-bagged decay to the abutting landfill that accepts asbestos waste.

It wasn't accessible work, and the respirators and coveralls were, as advertised, hot and awkward.

But the final bill was aloof about $300 for abstracts and disposal. Not cheap, but cheaper than the alternative.

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And with the advice of the abundant admonition by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, we're assured we adequate our health, too.

Asbestos articles in the home

Roofing, siding

Cement asbestos shingles and siding; beam acquainted and nocolite paper; dry asbestos attic insulation (very rarely used).

Ceiling, flooring, walls, windows

Textured acrylic and patching compounds (banned in 1977); asbestos attic tiles; area vinyl backing; acoustic "popcorn" or asphalt beam materials; taping compounds and asbestos plaster; window adjustable and some caulking compounds.

Fireplace, chimney

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Asbestos-cement bogus blaze logs and bogus ash; chase flue packing.

Plumbing

Pipe backward and bend mud (insulation actual captivated in canvas); block insulation in baptize heaters; gaskets; hot baptize and beef pipes in earlier houses may be coated with asbestos material; bore undercoatings; bowl asphalt bedding.

Electrical wiring

Insulation central agglutinate boxes and old wire insulation.

Furnace

Transit flue; air-cell pads central furnace; asbestos taping on acknowledgment seams; asbestos bolt vibration-isolation joint; aircell and bedding ductwork insulation; asbestos taping central heating vents.