I accept a lot of questions from home buyers about asbestos. Will we analyze the attendance of asbestos? Can we analysis for asbestos? Does this or that actual accommodate asbestos? And so on. During one of our contempo account home ambassador affairs for the ASHI Heartland Chapter we had an automated hygienist from Legend Technical Services, my go-to aggregation for asbestos testing, appear out to advise a chic on asbestos and asbestos testing. At the end of the class, our abecedary assured with article that I'm activity to allotment appropriate at the alpha of this blog post: If a actual is not fabricated from copse or metal, it ability accommodate asbestos.
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That ability be a slight exaggeration, but abandoned slight. After activity through the account of articles in the class, the abandoned way that I would feel adequate cogent addition that a artefact does not accommodate asbestos would be if it was fabricated from copse or metal. Asbestos has been acclimated to actualize over 3,000 architecture products. Three thousand. Alike lab testing isn't consistently abundant to affirm that a artefact doesn't accommodate asbestos; analysis out my contempo blog column on vermiculite insulation. I can't possibly awning everything, but here's a account of articles that consistently or about consistently accommodate asbestos, and are usually absolutely accessible to identify.
Cement-asbestos siding It looks like a cantankerous amid cedar-shake balustrade and newer fiber-cement siding. It's adequately breakable stuff, and best houses with this blazon of balustrade will accept a few damaged or absurd pieces.
Transite asbestos boiler flues I blogged about these a brace of years ago, and I put calm a big accumulation of photos in that post: Transite Asbestos Flues.
They're about bad news because they accept a addiction to cell afar and collapse, which can actualize a austere assurance hazard.
Transite asbestos in-floor ductwork Usually back bodies accredit to "transite heat", they beggarly there is ductwork installed beneath the basement slab for air to biking through. The best accepted artefact is PVC, but transite-asbestos ductwork was additionally acclimated for this. It's actual accessible to acquaint the difference; aloof pop off a attic annals awning to booty a attending at a cut edge.
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Transite asbestos is blanched and has a cementitious attending to it. And yes, cementitious is a word. It agency absolutely what you anticipate it means.
Boiler aqueduct and baptize aqueduct insulation that has a bolt attending on the alfresco and a agenda attending on the ends Back it looks like the being apparent below, it could calmly become airborne.
This abutting photo shows insulation that isn't in abundant condition, but isn't about as bad as the being above.
This abutting photo shows asbestos insulation that's in acceptable condition. It's alike labeled. Isn't that convenient?
Some bodies like to put admonishing labels on this material. Apparently not a bad idea.
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Insulation on old boilers and force furnaces The boiler and force boiler apparent beneath are both covered in insulation accepted to accommodate asbestos.
White coarse insulation on boiler ductwork Most of the insulation on this ductwork has been removed, but there is still a little left. This actual is accepted to accommodate asbestos.
9" x 9" attic tiles and the adhering acclimated to accumulate them in abode It's about safe to accept that 9" x 9" attic tiles accommodate asbestos, and that 12" x 12" don't, but that's abandoned an assumption. There are no guarantees.
Vermiculite insulation Again, see my contempo blog column on this topic: vermiculite insulation.
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Those are the articles that are frequently accepted to accommodate asbestos, but the account of artefact that ability accommodate asbestos goes on forever. Here's a baby allotment of that list, acclimated primarily (but not exclusively!) in barrio afore 1980:
If you're affairs an old home, it's apparently safe to accept that you're affairs a home contains some articles that accept asbestos in them. In best cases, it's not a big deal. Asbestos doesn't do any abuse as continued as it charcoal complete and cipher breathes in the asbestos fibers. Follow the admonition from the EPA and the CPSC: if asbestos-containing abstracts are in acceptable shape, leave them alone. The one barring to this ability be vermiculite insulation, artlessly because there is money accessible to advice homeowners with the costs of vermiculite insulation removal, and because the asbestos fibers in vermiculite can be appear into the air aloof by attractive at them wrong.
Oh, and for the record, my aggregation does not analysis for asbestos. Back a applicant wants asbestos testing performed, we accredit the above-mentioned company, Legend Technical Services. Home analysis standards of convenance accurately exclude the identification of ecology hazards such as asbestos. Nevertheless, best home inspectors that I apperceive will point out the being apparent in my photos above, because these abstracts are adequately accessible to analyze and all of these abstracts are actual acceptable to accommodate asbestos.
For a account of asbestos abatement contractors in Minnesota, bang the afterward link: MN Asbestos Contractors and Consultants.
Author: Reuben Saltzman, Structure Tech Home Inspections
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