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Long story but having twins is eating my mancave space so my garage will be getting converted into a room and I'm making frankengarage / shed thing in the back garden out of an old concrete pebble dash effect sectional garage.
This weekend me and the brother in law dismantled it and the panels are now in my back garden.
We were careful taking the roof off but I’m having bad thoughts that we’ve shifted a lot of asbestos sheets…
One of my mates says it’s not and its concrete fibre board and not to worry about it.
We had masks on to take it down but to get it in the back of my people carrier (VW Sharan we broke it up into pieces without masks on. I chucked a big damp proof membrane sheet in the back of the car then headed to the tip.
Bloke said we couldn’t tip it unless it was pre-booked in by the council.
The sheets themselves had some writing on the underside of it and looked pretty OK.
I’m worried that dust will be everywhere in the car and maybe we’ve breathed some in.
Am I panicking over nothing?
Some pictures below folks:
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
This weekend me and the brother in law dismantled it and the panels are now in my back garden.
We were careful taking the roof off but I’m having bad thoughts that we’ve shifted a lot of asbestos sheets…
One of my mates says it’s not and its concrete fibre board and not to worry about it.
We had masks on to take it down but to get it in the back of my people carrier (VW Sharan we broke it up into pieces without masks on. I chucked a big damp proof membrane sheet in the back of the car then headed to the tip.
Bloke said we couldn’t tip it unless it was pre-booked in by the council.
The sheets themselves had some writing on the underside of it and looked pretty OK.
I’m worried that dust will be everywhere in the car and maybe we’ve breathed some in.
Am I panicking over nothing?
Some pictures below folks:
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh540/ben_sewe...
roofer said:
Very likely to be cement with a chrysotile content. Looking at the underside, the pattern would indicate they are not, but without testing, its a guessing game.
Cheers for that. Best get my car cleaned out properly then 
Well suppose time will tell its done now. Made a note of it in my calendar and will be off to the docs if anything untoward happens.
GULP
I've heard that if it is snapped then the fibres are held in place.
If it is drilled then it releases the fibres.
Wearing a mask does nothing whatsoever to stop the fibres as the
mask needs to be pressure fed, so if it is asbestos it goes straight
through.
Same with a vacuum cleaner bag........
You should be ok anyway that doesn't look like it to me.
Annnnnd breathe lol.
If it is drilled then it releases the fibres.
Wearing a mask does nothing whatsoever to stop the fibres as the
mask needs to be pressure fed, so if it is asbestos it goes straight
through.
Same with a vacuum cleaner bag........
You should be ok anyway that doesn't look like it to me.
Annnnnd breathe lol.
Well I doubt anything will happen. Well at least in the next 3 years anyway as those roof panels look just like mine. They have been drilled, screwed and cut by me when I put them on after moving the garage to a new spot and it was all done without a mask as I thought they were the concrete ones!
Although I doubt Im in a huge risk really, it was over one weekend and the wind probably took a fair chunk away baring in mind it was in the winter.
God knows what I will do with the panels now though, I wanted to swap them out for wood and felt
Although I doubt Im in a huge risk really, it was over one weekend and the wind probably took a fair chunk away baring in mind it was in the winter.
God knows what I will do with the panels now though, I wanted to swap them out for wood and felt
Not especially dangerous. Concrete is binding anything vaguely harmful into big pieces. You dont get the fine fibres in the air like you do with other forms of fibres. Used on hundreds of thousands of buildings safely.
As long as it was wrapped when you took it to the tip then you'll be fine. Ive dropped/smashed loads of them in the past.
As long as it was wrapped when you took it to the tip then you'll be fine. Ive dropped/smashed loads of them in the past.
A couple of years ago I drilled two 5" holes through a soffit on top of a factory; to run a couple of boiler flues through it. It was proper tough to drill and took me a fair while to get through.
Couple of days later I was chatting to the owner of the factory and he said something along the lines of 'oh, by the way, if you need to get through the soffits around the roof they're asbestos'. I had drilled/broken asbestos a fair few times before, knowingly and unknowingly, but this was a few hours of drilling it. This stuff turned out to be 'proper' asbestos too, not the cement kind.
Went to a doctor; they said it was extremely unlikely that I would suffer any ill effects, ever, and in reality it was only regular, continued exposure which results in horrendous death.
So in other words; tell your missus to calm down.
Couple of days later I was chatting to the owner of the factory and he said something along the lines of 'oh, by the way, if you need to get through the soffits around the roof they're asbestos'. I had drilled/broken asbestos a fair few times before, knowingly and unknowingly, but this was a few hours of drilling it. This stuff turned out to be 'proper' asbestos too, not the cement kind.
Went to a doctor; they said it was extremely unlikely that I would suffer any ill effects, ever, and in reality it was only regular, continued exposure which results in horrendous death.
So in other words; tell your missus to calm down.
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