What are remedies for ASBESTOS SIDING?

[Mike Kennedy]

I have seen asbestos siding painted over, I'm sure you can probably also cover with another type of siding, and I know removal is an option- but is supposed to be done by specialists. If an investor were to rehab a house with asbestos siding, what is the cheapest accepted option to remedy an asbestos siding issue?

COPING WITH LEAD AND ASBESTOS
... your state or the EPA) asbestos abatement professional to determine if removal ... costs without spending a small fortune doing it, these North Carolina folks ...

https://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Home-Building/1989-05-01/Coping-with-Lead-and-Asbestos.aspx

Asbestos Information
The 1988 Healthy House Catalog, see above

Asbestos in the Home by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402

National Asbestos Council, 1777 NE Expressway, Suite 150, Atlanta, GA 30329, 404/633-2622. Asbestos abatement contractors' association

Asbestos Handbook for Remodelers, Remodelers Council, National Association of Home Builders, 15th & M Streets, Washington, DC 20005
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Asbestos Information Line: 202/544-1404

http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/asbestos/asbestoshome.html

http://www.nclabor.com/osha/etta/indguide/ig17.pdf

 

[Tim Schneider]

I removed asbestos for a summer during college ($12 an hour seemed great at the time), and did a siding removal job. It is super easy, just get underneath it with an ice chipper or a hammer and crow bar. Most tiles will just pop off. The key with any removal is to spray it with water, to keep any little fibers out of the air. Asbestos is not nearly as dangerous as most think. In Wisconsin homeowners can remove it themselves too, and just throw it away with the trash.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If an investor were to rehab a house with asbestos siding, what is the cheapest accepted option to remedy an asbestos siding issue

Do nothing. It is a hoax played on the American people. asbestoes shingles are rarely "friable" and most were put on in predrilled holes with aluminum nails. The stuff comes off easy. It is nearly friable and unless you saw a sheet of it, it cannot release asbestos in the air. However, there is a cottage industry of goofs running around in big yellow suits and doing "remediation" for an absurd price, often aided by the State Hysterical Health Dept. Check your local law.
Frankly, I 'remediated' one by taking the shingles off. I buried them. I broke a few but reality was there was no dust to release. That was 20 plus years ago and I can still breath...
FYI - the only people now who get asbestosis are people working in the asbestos remediation business. It is like the lead paint fraud, short of ingesting the stuff, you don't have a real problem, you have a government created problem.
BTW- you can buy those shingles yet today and they are made from cement and fiberglas

Charles says that asbestos siding is called TRANSITE. Would anyone like to guess how many MILES of transite pipe is used for water mains? Gives a whole new meaning to...."If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

correct again. Bella Vista Village laid hundreds of miles of that stuff when I worked for them in 1973. We called it A/C pipe...

 

[CANative]

Silly.

I suppose there might be a miniscule hazard if you pulverized a dumpster load of it and then spent a few days in the dumpster with the lid closed. But to worry about pulling off some shingles? Bah. My house has very old asbestos shingles.

Back in 1975 the destroyer I was stationed on went through a year in drydock being retrofitted. One of the jobs was removing a few miles of old steam pipes covered in asbestos foam insulation. The pipefitters cut it all out with pneumatic saws and we lived and worked in a constant yellow haze of asbestos for almost a year.

*hack*cough*

 

[Jim Hill]

Locking the barn doors after all the horses are gone!

When I think about all the homes that we installed asbestos siding on back in the 50's and 60's and know one ever said anything about the dangers of using this material.

Many of the posts talk about the danger in either breaking it or drilling holes in it.

Back then you had a simple machine that would punch the holes in this stuff so that you could put a nail throught the hole and nail them on the walls.

Every lumber yard sold them and we never thought much about the stuff.

Who Knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now we have the problems with presure treated lumber and they no longer want us to use it in decks or for building play grounds for kids.

Most of the homes I have built over the past 25 years had these very same decks on them and we were told the only danger was to the carpenters building them when you cut a board and released the fibers of wood into the air. We all read the little yellow warning labels on them back then but it did not seem like a big deal and again ever lumber yard in the country sold the stuff!

The only time I ever saw anyone get sick was when they used the wood cut offs from the deck for wood to cook thier hambergers and hot dogs with in thier grill which was not a very smart thing to do.

I wish the goverment had more testing of these material done before they were sold to consumers.

Now we have millions of homes built with this stuff.

I always thought you might see a class action law suit againt the goverment or one of the groups that should have been testing these materials.

I guess it's another case of locking the barn doors after all the horses are gone!

Jim Hill

 

[Mr Rex]

Just wait for a few cases of Fiberglassitosis to be settled in court for a few mil. Talk about a cottage industry waiting in the wings. Fiberglass remediation is gonna be big.

 

[Edward OConor]

Just curious:

Does anyone know of a confirmed case of someone (that didn't ever work with asbestos) getting sick from living in a house with either asbestos covered pipes and/or asbestos siding?

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

I had the stuff on the 2nd house I owned here in Colorado Springs. Painted it about 3 times and finally realized it wasn't going to hold the paint for more than a couple of years. Called Sears and they did a vinyl over steel siding right over the shingles. Cost about $5,000 back in the mid 80's and that included all the soffets and fascia. Never had to paint it again. Drove by it a couple of months ago and it still looks great.

 

[Mr Rex]

I had the stuff on the 2nd house I owned here in Colorado Springs. Painted it about 3 times and finally realized it wasn't going to hold the paint for more than a couple of years. Called Sears and they did a vinyl over steel siding right over the shingles. Cost about $5,000 back in the mid 80's and that included all the soffets and fascia. Never had to paint it again. Drove by it a couple of months ago and it still looks great.

That's interesting, that stuff usually holds paint very well. No reason for it not to if prepped right, since moisture doesn't readily pass through it like wood etc. Your painter might have been watering the paint, for future work.

 

[saxon]

in louisiana we just find a large hole in the ground and dump it in there