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I doubt they would allow you to move in if it was going to be an issue, Just paint over it for now until they take a look at how they will deal with it.
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Reasonable, because you are over-reacting! Get yourself moved in, but just don't do any work, where there was suggested to be any asbestos.
YES! The risk is absolutely minimal. Remember, people lived in that flat possibly for decades, without any issues.
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I would have said spray paint the cracks, then paint it all and move in.
But a guy I've known 40 years - chippy, has just been diagnosed with asbestos-caused lung cancer. He's been given 2 months to a year.
The only asbestos he can remember was a job about 30 years ago where he replaced all the doors in a hotel - because they contained asbestos.
So no drilling , they just went into a skip for the council to collect.
The various types show up clearly under an "ordinary" polarised light microscope. Most of the crystals are "positively birefringent". Instead of looking anonymous grey/transparent, they make colours.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/plm-closeup-chunky-chrysotile-600w-1820369969.jpg
Curiously, I have a number of polarising microscopes. The guy with mesothelioma inherited a house a year ago, and it had some microscopes the guy used for a specific application. They need servicing, so they aren't worth much. They were on their way to the local dump so I got in the way.
If you get two sheets of polarising material - camera filters, old sunglasses, some phone screen covers, etc, and cross them so no light comes through, then rotate the top one 45°, you'll get some light through and get a colour of some sort, like the pinkish purple in the linked photo.
Then put eg chrysotile (asbestos from asbestos-cement sheet) onto a clear glass that you put between the polarisers, and rotate that.
The colours show up, they move about but they're small - you'd need at least a strong hand lens to see anything. Most are ~ microns size so too small without magnification. Often the asbestos will have the stuff with larger crystals than the fine ones which do the damage, and you can see those.
I would have said spray paint the cracks, then paint it all and move in.
But a guy I've known 40 years - chippy, has just been diagnosed with asbestos-caused lung cancer. He's been given 2 months to a year.
The only asbestos he can remember was a job about 30 years ago where he replaced all the doors in a hotel - because they contained asbestos.
So no drilling , they just went into a skip for the council to collect.
The various types show up clearly under an "ordinary" polarised light microscope. Most of the crystals are "positively birefringent". Instead of looking anonymous grey/transparent, they make colours.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/plm-closeup-chunky-chrysotile-600w-1820369969.jpg
Curiously, I have a number of polarising microscopes. The guy with mesothelioma inherited a house a year ago, and it had some microscopes the guy used for a specific application. They need servicing, so they aren't worth much. They were on their way to the local dump so I got in the way.
If you get two sheets of polarising material - camera filters, old sunglasses, some phone screen covers, etc, and cross them so no light comes through, then rotate the top one 45°, you'll get some light through and get a colour of some sort, like the pinkish purple in the linked photo.
Then put eg chrysotile (asbestos from asbestos-cement sheet) onto a clear glass that you put between the polarisers, and rotate that.
The colours show up, they move about but they're small - you'd need at least a strong hand lens to see anything. Most are ~ microns size so too small without magnification. Often the asbestos will have the stuff with larger crystals than the fine ones which do the damage, and you can see those.
Yes! Tape over the crack for now if you’re worried about it.
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Chrysotile according to the report I was given by the council when I signed the tenancy agreement.
One of my old school chums died recently from asbestos in the lungs. At the age of 20 he had worked in demolition and refurbishment of old offices.
I have sometimes thought that retired people such as myself should be paid to work in asbestos clearance.
If it takes 40 years to kill you, we have little to fear.
Out of interest, is it artex on the ceiling? Paint it, don't scrape it, and it will not jump out at you.
I have sometimes thought that retired people such as myself should be paid to work in asbestos clearance.
If it takes 40 years to kill you, we have little to fear.
Out of interest, is it artex on the ceiling? Paint it, don't scrape it, and it will not jump out at you.
YES move in. It will be absolutely fine if left alone - just paint over the crack - just the crack and dont waste your paint as the ceiling will be replaced for you at some stage.
As a youth, I regularly worked alongside it, breathing in the fibres, and there were no concerns at all back then. Chances are obviously quite small of it affecting anyone, but serious if it does, and it can take many decades to appear as a problem. Kool, is hardly in the first flush of youth, so he has little to fear, even if exposed.
He’ll still be deciding which flat to take at 90
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Try suffering with anxiety and depression!!
When I was working for a main dealer in South Africa in the early eighties, they would blow out the brake drums and shoes when doing a service. Filled the bloody workshop up. Us Brits would down tools and stand outside until they opened both front and rear workshop shutters and the air had cleared. They stopped it after about the third or fourth time we walked out. They didn’t think it was dangerous.
