I need a few heating ducts removed in my house that I am pretty sure are coated with an asbestos wrap. The house was built in 1950 and the ducts were installed at this time. Just looking for leads on who I should call or if anyone has had this work done before?
When I was a kid my mom and & I removed a ton of it from our basement with nothing but dust masks. I really had no idea what the stuff was. It was all over our hot water pipes I think?
Later on I learned that if it’s just there and no one is smashing it up or chipping pieces off of it (knocking fibers into the air) you really don’t need to remove it. I’m sure my mom was under the impression that by just being there it would effect our health which isn’t the case. We put ourselves at greater risk by removing it than leaving it alone.
Is there some reason you need to remove it? Or you just want to remove it?
Not sure if you want to but you can do this yourself. Most towns / dumps will accept asbestos as long as properly sealed in plastic garbage bags. Airborne particles are tho only concern. With a little care, good respirator and Tyvek™ suit, you can do all the removal.
I am in the process of opening up my kitchen and I am removing some walls that the duct currently run though. I need to cut the ducts in a few places to pull them out so I will have to remove the wrap in a few places to do so. I go back and forth about self performing. I have access to the proper PPE to do the job, just not sure if this is something I should do myself. Heres a pic of one of the ducts
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I’ve removed some asbestos tiles myself but I wouldn’t attempt doing wrap. It’s the whole Friable vs Non-Friable thing. With tiles the asbestos is encapsulated in the tile material and as long as you’re not breaking them up it doesn’t really get into the air. That insulation wrap is going to turn to powder as soon as you start cutting it.
I think would encapsulate, wet the section down, scrape off a 2 inch section, then cut with some tin snips. I think I would be then able to pull the ducts out as two pieces without disturbing anything. I think I rather have someone else perform this though.
just wet it no big deal
Consult an expert first. Be safety always.
Thanks for joining all the way from Melbourne just to bump a 6 month old thread so you could get your company link in your sig.
^^Fucking cunt
I hired professionals for this and they totally bent me over, one guy had this done in about 8 hrs.
Bumping this just to see if anyone knows if this is still the practice. I just have some tiles that are untouched, never used spares that I came across and would like to dispose of.
The real answer to which I hold no personal accountability for?
If you don’t officially have them tested for asbestos and don’t know for sure, there is no liability on your end. Just throw them out. The law reads somewhere between “don’t ask, don’t tell” and “ignorance is bliss”.
A remediation company is going to charge you up the hooha and there’s no real danger of just handling asbestos for a short period of time…encapsulated or not.
Step 1: never ask anyone electronically for advice on this. 
Right! :tinfoilhat:
If you want to know all of the answers, you can read NYS Code Rule 56…very long…very boring code.
The reality is fairly simple, If a residential OWNER disposes of their own ACM, they are not bound to the code for removal procedures.
If you are a commercial facility/industrial facility/hire a subcontractor, they are required to abide by Code Rule 56.