>be thirdies
>my house still use asbestos as a roof
lmao, will I get lung cancer ?
I'm too lazy and poor to changing it
>be thirdies. >my house still use asbestos as a roof
>be thirdies
>my house still use asbestos as a roof
lmao, will I get lung cancer ?
I'm too lazy and poor to changing it
Are you cutting up your roof? If so, wear a respirator and you'll be fine. If not, then don't wear a respirator and you'll be fine.
Asbestos is only dangerous if you turn it into tiny particles and then breathe those particles for a long period of time.
Also, don't eat it. Don't climb on the roof and chew on it in a fit of gamer rage.
I dunno man, that stuff looks pretty tasty.
Asbestos is safe so long as it's not broken up into particles and dispersed into the air. Just don't go up on your roof and start ripping the roofing apart with a saw or something.
this, it's perfectly fine as long as it keeps its integrity
as long as it's not dust your breathing, you'll be fine, it's not radioactive
asbestos used to be used fricking everywhere, as it's a natural resource with excellent insulation properties, but there are safer alternatives so it was decided it wasn't worth the risk anymore
>thirdies
lol. what an idiot. if you dont know the mistake here you are an even bigger idiot
what's wrong with it ?
i took it as him saying he's a third worlder
Asbestos is great as long as you don't breathe it in. For which there are well established protocols to avoid. It should be used in building again.
Those roof panels are probably the safest asbestos product since they're solid and outdoors where there's ventilation/rain. I wouldn't worry about it personally
t. live in a building with asbestos popcorn ceiling, no lung cancer yet
>yet
Look, it's just a little cancer, I don't think it's anything to worry about. It'll probably sort itself out
They are gonna cure mesothelioma in 20 years anyway.
>t. live in a building with asbestos popcorn ceiling, no lung cancer yet
everyone who got cancer from living in a building with asbestos could have said this for the vast majority of their lives.
Roofs aren't friable hence not an issue and the shit lasts forever. I have asbestos shingles and no inclination to disturb them since they've been find since 1965.
Do some reading (not here) to make yourself informed. PrepHole is not a reliable source.
there are two kinds of cement bound asbestos, natural and steam hardened.
the gray op are probably natural the red/brown painted ones are steam hardened.
the natural ones degrade after 50 years and start to shed fibers, when i remove moss from my roof it pulls away layers of the asbestos. in a 1950s part of town you get some background fibers from all the decaying roofs. 70yo widow Mary is not going to replace her garage roof anytime soon. and stupid German laws make it illegal to paint the roof.
my steam hardened shingles on the roof look like new after the same long time.
Illegal to paint your roof, why?
Somebody might accidentally paint a swastika on their roof
German autism knows no bounds
§307 StGB
>Causing an explosion using nuclear energy
Its also illegal to launch a nuke
Funny considering your country is mulling whether or not to get nukes itself
Do you know the name of the law by any chance, I can’t find it anywhere. It sounds almost unbelievably stupid, but some other laws in Germany I know about compel me to believe it.
Well maybe the swastika thing is true, but I was just shitposting about Germany
Who amongst us hasn't slipped with our hands and accidentally a gigabyte of hindu luck symbols
painting swastikas is in our dna
in the 30s some madlad in my area planted larch trees in a spruce forest. decades later his work was discovered by areal surveillance and then cut down lel
>dem trees is racis' and shi'
Gefahrstoffverordnung Abschnitt 5 §16
This law basically says its illegal to work, handle,transport materials listed in the annex like asbestos, dioxin, etc.
then it makes an exception in annex 2 no1(asbestos) which says its legal to handle asbestos for the sake of removing it,maintenance or working with it using tested methods. and it says its illegal to cover or build over asbestos.
repainting painted asbestos is maintenance, painting raw asbestos is building over it. it makes sense so boomers wont just lay tiles over their loose asbestos cushion vinyl tiles and have their unknowing grandson get exposed when he removes the tiles in 30 years.
Also i don't think you can paint over pic rel without sanding or pressure washing it anyways.
fine until it starts to crumble
Does it, though? Feels pretty eternal. Got 60 year old panels vertically outside. No aging whatsoever.
I bought a house with a potter's shed in the back that had an asbestos roof. I thought it was fiberglass. One day I got a ladder so I could get on top and clean it. I put my hand on it and it came away like I had just coated it in chalk. "Oh, that is not fiberglass." Got it tested and, sure enough, asbestos.
I researched how to remove it and got started. I got myself a little Tyvek jumpsuit and respirator. I wet the roof down and kept a sprinkler going over it while I worked. Went up there with a set of nippers, nipped all the nailheads off, and removed the sheets. I double bagged them in extra large plastic bags and wrapped them up with tape. Did the same with the suit and respirator when I was done. Local landfill said they would take them at the standard rate.
It was only about 450 square feet of material but it only cost me about $70 total to DIY dispose of. Most of that was for the bags, suit, and respirator.
This screams south america. Just don't break it and you'll be fine. They used to make water tanks of that shit too, so don't worry.
Loose paper fibers do the same thing asbestos fibers dojust don't rile then up
According to the EPA, asbestos is only dangerous if it’s in commercial property. If it’s residential there are no restrictions on removing it. You can have a 5000 sqft house that’s full of asbestos and you can bust it out in a weekend but if you have a 500 sqft commercial property you have to have it abated. Tell me how that makes sense.
>being mad your shitty boss cant just rip out asbestos and expose you to dust/fibers because he is cheap
>thinking that I’m the employee
It's hilarious. Joe Homeowner can rip it out, bag it up, and throw it right in the fricking garbage but commercial owners have to pay thousands for professional abatement and safe disposal.
>there are safer alternatives
>asbestos is bad for you
>fricks up your lungs
>pay thousands to have it removed
>replace with safer alternative fiberglass
>fiberglass fricks up your lungs
>die anyway
>fiberglass fricks up your lungs
isn't it inert ?
it is, glass is crystalized silica. amorphous silica, the type found in rocks and sand is what fricks up your lungs.
what separates glass fiber from asbestos is how the strains split, glass is like spaghetti, asbestos like kindling a log.
Now what is just as bad as asbestos is hight temp alumina silicate wool. For most purposes, calcium magnesia silicate wool is a direct replacement and bio soluble
"Short arms, deep pockets"
We call it shifer. Shifer is not perfect, but is not bad.
Privet, zemlyak
Not OP but I also have asbestos shingles. would applying some sort of sealer over them help prevent fibers from dislodging? I have some trees that when it's windy some branches rub on the roof so I'm afraid that might chafe them
I wouldn't bother. You will expose yourself to far more asbestos dust (asbestdust?) through interacting with the shingles, vs just pruning the branches.
anon please
>be thirdie
>home's water reservoir is made of asbestos
>been drinking from it since childhood
>nothing visible happened so far
only breathing it is bad. eating asbestos has no harmful effects.
Hard to believe it's asbestos because asbestos has been banned in the third world when ceramic tiles were still the norm. Most of those tiles are actually made with fibre and cement (which absorbs way more water than actual asbestos.