Question: My 1970s cottage-cheese acoustic beam has been lab-tested and begin to accommodate asbestos. Is it acknowledged for me as a homeowner to abolish the acoustic actual if I use the able assurance accessories and actuate of it per regulations? Or charge I accept a architect do it?
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Answer: Getting rid of those anachronous cottage-cheese or "popcorn" ceilings is generally the aboriginal affair homeowners appetite to do in a remodel. The homeowners I've interviewed assassin a aggregation to do the blowzy and potentially alarming abatement job back testing appear the beam independent asbestos.
Another advantage -- which additionally works for added baneful materials, such as lead-based acrylic -- is to abbreviate it. The asbestos is alarming back it becomes aerial and sucked into your lungs. It's accessible to awning the beam with drywall that is taped off and again painted, appropriately absolute the asbestos.
With either abatement or encapsulation, I anticipate ambidextrous with asbestos is a job best larboard to the professionals.
I asked Westlake Village architect Bob Sturgeon, admiral of Westside Adjustment (www.westsideremodeling.com) for his views.
Contractor's answer: Removing asbestos from your own home is legal, but that's bold you accept the ability and accessories for asbestos removal.
For The RecordLos Angeles Times Tuesday February 13, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 42 words Type of Material: CorrectionCeiling treatment: An commodity in the Feb. 11 Real Estate breadth about abatement of "popcorn" ceilings that accommodate asbestos referred to the array of polyethylene bedding in millimeters. It is abstinent in mils, not millimeters. A mil is one-thousandth of an inch.For The RecordLos Angeles Times Sunday February 18, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 42 words Type of Material: CorrectionCeiling treatment: An commodity in the Feb. 11 Real Estate breadth about abatement of "popcorn" ceilings that accommodate asbestos referred to the array of polyethylene bedding in millimeters. It is abstinent in mils, not millimeters. A mil is one-thousandth of an inch.
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My able assessment is that the amount extenuative of accomplishing it yourself does not absolve the abeyant bloom risks that the job poses. Breathing aerial levels of asbestos fibers can advance to an added accident of lung cancer, mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the chest and the belly cavity) and asbestosis, a action in which the lungs become aching with coarse tissue.
The able you appoint charge accept a accurate contractor's authorization and affidavit for asbestos abatement work. You can analysis that at the contractors' accompaniment licensing board, at www.cslb.ca.gov, and download a 12-page asbestos-removal booklet. Whoever does the assignment will charge the afterward careful assurance equipment:
* Half-face, dual-cartridge respirators, anniversary able with a brace of color-coded amethyst HEPA filters. (HEPA is an acronym for high-efficiency chapped air filter). Anniversary being alive aural the ascendancy breadth needs a respirator.
* Goggles for eye protection.
* Several pairs of disposable coveralls with congenital booties should be worn. One brace will be bare for anniversary access into the ascendancy area. Every time a artisan leaves a ascendancy breadth during a removal, coveralls should be disposed of in closed asbestos-disposal bags.
* Laceless, pull-on elastic boots afterwards accouterments will assure coverall booties so they do not abrasion through. Elastic boots can be done off afterwards or disposed of as attenuated debris.
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* Elastic gloves should be worn. Every time a artisan leaves the ascendancy area, these gloves should be disposed of in appropriately closed asbestos-disposal bags.
* To body a ascendancy area, 2- or 3-millimeter polyethylene bedding for the walls and 6-millimeter bedding to awning the floors in the assignment area.
* Asbestos decay auctioning accoutrements for absolute attenuated materials. The accoutrements are fabricated of 6-millimeter polyethylene. Anniversary should be printed with appropriate asbestos warning.
* Duct band for architecture a ascendancy breadth and sealing decay auctioning bags.
* Tank aerosol for wetting acoustic beam material.
* Putty knives with 4- to 6-inch blades.
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* Plenty of rags and buckets.
* Encapsulant, a blanket that seals and binds the asbestos fibers. It's acclimated for blanket walls and/or ceilings afterwards asbestos abstracts accept been aching off.
After the acoustic beam actual is removed, two coats of drywall mud should be activated to the joints and spiral heads. Again the absolute beam should be textured.
Also, afore anyone starts abatement of asbestos, the accompaniment agencies acclimation the abatement of asbestos -- the Air Quality Management District and Cal/OSHA -- charge be notified. For added information, go to www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/asbestos.html.
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Submit adjustment questions at www.kathyprice.com, or accelerate to Real Estate Section, L.A. Times, 202 W. 1st St., L.A., CA 90012.
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