How I discovered I’ve got Asbestos in My Home, how I tested it to find out what it was and what I’m going to do now.
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0:00 Introduction
0:22 Background
1:25 Testing Kit
2:04 Sampling
2:34 Asbestos in our homes
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My garage contained white asbestos and the HSE has a great leaflet on how to remove and dispose of it. I dismantled the garage and paid a firm to remove it.
My mum died of mesothelioma in January. She was a teacher and was subjected to the fibres whilst teaching in a canteen. It took 30 yrs to show itself and she lived for 2 years after diagnosis. Be very careful out there.
Good video to raise the profile of this danger lurking in pre-2000 buildings (after 2000, asbestos was banned, so the chance of having any is much, much less – albeit maybe not zero). I didn’t realise you could get home test kits. As others have said, I don’t think your exposure will have been that high and so I think any risk to you will be minimal. It was older guys that worked with the stuff day in and day out that developed the issues later in life. Sadly we discovered it’s dangers all too late for them. Looking forward to more videos Charlie. Keep up the good work. ????????????
Good video. Can I say though £40 or £50 for all that stuff included in the asbestos kit seems like really good value, especially when they return you an answer in less than a week via email.
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Back in the 80's when life was simpler, I remember renovating a very old property lined with asbestos boards. The telephone advice then was to soak them, cut them out with a hand saw and leave them outside for a couple of Council workers with zero PPE to pop them onto an open bed truck several days later. The actual risk of mesothelioma hasn't changed since and I greatly suspect back then there was a more realistic approach to risk. Asbestos insulation in shipyards and storage heaters is a very different thing.
That corner you clipped off the panel reminds me of the wire mesh and asbestos grids we sat above bunsen burners in chemistry practical classes at school and university in 1960s and 1970s.
Having watched my pop painfully die within 6-8 months with Mesothelioma I'd advise anyone to not take the risk. If you suspect, just leave it be or get it professionally tested and removed. It's awful stuff. If your UK based and live in a place built before 1999 you very likely have it somewhere.
New one for me – we had to replace some pitch fibre pipes before we could buildover because it's a public sewer. Had them tested before cutting and they contained white asbestos. Double bagged and disposed by a waste contracter.
It only costs around £250 to have an entire 3bed house professionally tested. You can find asbestos in things like floor tiles and window sills.
We test every house we buy and develop because the builders need to know before they work on a property.
If there is some, we get it all professionally removed to make our houses safe for the future.