Why are some people paranoid about buying homes with asbestos?

Question

I know some people that would turn their backs if they saw a centimeter of asbestos in a home for sale. Whats the big deal? I think the installed products are best left alone, and would release more fibers if you remove them.

Hey my house has asbestos siding under the plastic siding! 32 years in the same house, and no effects!

Answer 1

You've touched on the answer. People who do not know think "this stuff is poison, or I will get cancer" Asbestos products as you indicated are best left alone. There are cases where the removal is important, if you are removing an old boiler system and installing a central forced air system then the old system is in the way and should be removed by a professional. In the case of asbestos tile floor or siding the material is OK as long as in the case of siding it is painted and you do not saw, or drill or scrape the material. If painted you don't want to scrape it when you plan to repaint. In the case of tile, you should not strip the floor to apply new wax. and you should keep it waxed or sealed. The fibers are dangerous when they become airborne. Lead based paint falls into this category too.

Answer 2

no longer something you're able to do a pair of previous exposure. it is going to the two have an result sometime interior the destiny, or it won't. the wear, if any, has already been completed. it may be an extremely stable theory to do a radical washing of any chlothes that would desire to nevertheless hold asbestos dirt nonetheless. in spite of the undeniable fact that, interior the U. S. and Canada, there are rules governing very own shielding kit use and different factors of demolition events regarding ACM (asbestos-containing components). Your enterprise has a criminal criminal duty to offer you approriate kit and paintings circumstances. Failure to do it extremely is the two a civil criminal duty (a conceivable reason for a lawsuit) and a doubtlessly criminal act. touch OSHA or whoever governs place of work well being and protection the place you reside and locate out what the responsibilities have been on your enterprise. Then confer with a lawyer if it form of feels suited. yet back to the well being undertaking: no rely if ACM is a danger relies upon very plenty on how "friable" the textile is, how plenty dirt is produced containing very high quality debris of asbestos. because of the fact it is merely the very high quality particules that are the undertaking (would desire to be very small to penetrate deeply into the lungs), regular general purpose dirt mask are truly ineffective as protection. If the textile did no longer generate plenty dirt, the disadvantages are critically decreased relative to ACM that produces a great number of high quality dusts. you're able to desire to be uncovered first, so as to have a bad effect, yet exposure would not in any respect assure a bad result. And an extremely easy exposure would in uncomplicated terms reason an extremely localized reaction interior the bronchii (the smallest areas of the lungs the place gasoline substitute happens). uncomplicated undertaking with asbestos is that the needle-like debris puncture lung cells and lead them to boost into contaminated or develop into scar tissue that would not substitute oxygen ok. choose a great number of scarring or inflammation to have a actual undertaking. the association with lung maximum cancers is even an prolonged (much less possibly) danger, and for a small exposure is frequently no worse than residing in a city for a pair a protracted time. So, ya, i think of you're being slightly paranoid yet on the comparable time, why take easily preventable adverse aspects?

Answer 3

What I have always wondered is: abestos is bad because it is tiny slivers of rock and cuts you lungs up and it is banded, but fiberglas is actually that, tiny fibers of glass but it supposedly doesn't harm you, Quite strange isn't it???
At least it put a lot of high paid people to work.
I worked on cars with asbestos brakes for years and never heard of a problem. Then all of a sudden BAM it was deadly as hell.

Answer 4

ASBESTOS IS A HAZARDOUS MATERIAL AND CAUSES MANY SERIOUS ILLNESSESS INCLUDING LUNG CANCER, EVEN IF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER EVER SMOKED. IT HAS TO BE REMOVED BY A PROFESSIONAL HAZMAT TEAM. ASBESTOS IS EVEN HARMFULL WHEN NOT DISTURBED SO THAT IS WHY IT HAS TO BE REMOVED AND PEOPLE DON;T WANT THE EXPENSE OR WORRY

Answer 5

because asbestos can cause a type of cancer, plus its really itchy in your nose.

Answer 6

I take it you have never seen, or heard someone dying of Asbestosis, ONE fibre is enough to kill you!
But hey, if you are happy living in a death trap, good luck to you!