I'm sorry if this repeats an earlier thread (if so, could someone post a link please).
Stripping wallpaper off the kitchen wall, I noticed what looked like a hardboard panel fastened to it. I put the chisel behind it and pop! off came a section of what is clearly asbestos sheet. Not a big deal, I'm sure I could get the rest off more or less in one piece and dispose of it responsibly.
However, the electrician has cut 2 lengths of cable into the panel, prbably 3 metres in total, prsumably with a grinder. About 2 months ago. So, we have a room full of asbestos dust, a carpet and the kitchen where the builders ate and made their tea. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. It has also presumably now been trodden throughout the house, new carpets and all. My wife has dusted recently (without a mask, who dusts in a mask?).
So needless to say, I've washed the kitchen down, suitable suited up, taken the wall paper off with a steamer and used the hot moisture to wipe everything down. What do I do next? Local Authority? Clean the whole house? Remove all the carpets?
Any advice, except from people touting for business, very welcome indeed.
regards, phil
Stripping wallpaper off the kitchen wall, I noticed what looked like a hardboard panel fastened to it. I put the chisel behind it and pop! off came a section of what is clearly asbestos sheet. Not a big deal, I'm sure I could get the rest off more or less in one piece and dispose of it responsibly.
However, the electrician has cut 2 lengths of cable into the panel, prbably 3 metres in total, prsumably with a grinder. About 2 months ago. So, we have a room full of asbestos dust, a carpet and the kitchen where the builders ate and made their tea. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. It has also presumably now been trodden throughout the house, new carpets and all. My wife has dusted recently (without a mask, who dusts in a mask?).
So needless to say, I've washed the kitchen down, suitable suited up, taken the wall paper off with a steamer and used the hot moisture to wipe everything down. What do I do next? Local Authority? Clean the whole house? Remove all the carpets?
Any advice, except from people touting for business, very welcome indeed.
regards, phil