Introduction to Asbestos from 1959

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1. wilkes85 on August 27, 2009 at 9:31 pm

   My elementary school had asbestos in it (removed a few years after I went to high school), and the house I lived in at the time had asbestos too, and I turned out fine. The house I live in right now has lead pipes.

   I basically spent my life in buildings with asbestos and lead pipes, so according to today’s, over-paranoid public, I should be dead by now.

2. wilkes85 on August 27, 2009 at 9:41 pm

   Not all ceilings… asbestos was banned in 1973 and popcorn ceilings are still common in new houses.

   All it is is plaster sprayed onto the ceiling with a special nozzle.

   Anyway, if you paint over the popcorns, it should be OK.
   Besides, it’ll look a lot better and they wont keep falling down all over the place like the fuckin things like to do.

3. sa17ma18ra on September 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm

   I have an asbestos fence on one side of my house but I think it was put up after all the banning of the dangerous materials, I think it is encased in cement. However as a kid i stupid played darts against the fencing & im afraid whether I inhaled the dust particles or not. I never really stood around the fence too much & the dart holes are only very small “scratches”, am I safe? I was never exposed for long periods of time I only played for 10-20 mins for about a few weeks. Thats it?

4. SpectruimVideos on September 2, 2009 at 3:00 am

   This shiet is banned! (Im not offending you)

5. jdgator95 on September 28, 2009 at 6:06 pm

   Haha 5 stars for irony! XD

6. jdgator95 on September 28, 2009 at 6:09 pm

   Actually asbestos in any commercial use has been banned since the mid ’90s.

7. markdcatlin on September 28, 2009 at 7:55 pm

   In many countries, asbestos products have been banned. However in the US, only some asbestos products have been banned. Asbestos roofing materials, siding, cement pipe, floor tiles and other products can still be made and sold. Senator Patty Murray of Washington State has proposed a law to banned asbesros in the US.

8. MrMortgage1 on October 1, 2009 at 8:20 pm

   many people suffer mesothelioma from unwitting exposure to asbestos. how would you like to find out in 30 years that the keyboard you use contained chemicals that are now killing you – incurably!

   If you are suffering from this insidious disease you may be entitled to compensation to help with your treatment, or improve your quality of life.

   mesothelioma-lawsuits. info

   gives you info to help with this and start you on your path.

9. Etrician55 on October 7, 2009 at 10:27 pm

   asbestos takes 20 – 40 years to affect you, so u still may have lung cancer down the road….

10. charger62790 on October 18, 2009 at 3:57 am

    Asbestos is broken up into 2 groups. Friable and nonfrible. Friable means easily crumbed, releasing fibers into the air. Popcorn Ceiling are friable however if asbestos is undesturbed you will be ok. If the ceiling is falling apart you can do one of two things. 1, you can paint the ceiling succesfully encapsulating it however you may disturb the asbestos while painting. or 2 you can call a professional asbestos worker, like me, to set up a containment barrier and perform a ceiling scrape

11. Etrician55 on October 23, 2009 at 11:45 pm

    look im about to work on a house thats full of vermiculite, its all over the floor, i need to change the service, how much does it cost for you guys to come in and take some samples to see if they test positive? i know it may not contain asbestos, but if it was mined in libby montana, it can contain tremolite

12. thaitanium12 on November 21, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    mesothelioma is a terrible disease to die from and it doesn’t help at the crematorium where it takes 3 days to cremate the poor bugger who died from it. Almost as bad as the alcoholic who dies from drinking 2 bottles of brandy a day when it took 3 days to put the fire out.

13. fmrndiguy2005 on November 24, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Makes me wonder if this is the stuff that I found in my apartment ceiling loft that was built in the late 1960s. I found this weird brownish/greyish insulation underneath the loose fill yellow fiberglass insulation. I know that it wasn’t cellulose because you could shine a flashlight at that stuff and see tiny splinter like fibers. Since I had already (potentially) stirred it up and exposed myself, I tried to burn a sample of whatever insulation this was and it wouldn’t burn. Asbestos?

14. superdonyoungy on December 4, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    I’m 35 and was exposed to Asbestos when I was 25 for about a month, it’s a little soul destroying because the British Health and Safety authority only gave the builders a verbal warning even though they knew it was present.

    I worried for months and realise there is nothing I can do, I am still in construction and moved to Australia where Asbestos sheet is everywhere.

    My advice to construction guys is.

    A)Don’t Smoke
    B)Wear a P2 rated mask every day
    C)Throw away clothes you think contain fibres

15. superdonyoungy on December 4, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    I am an Electrician and reside in the top 10 most likely to contract Asbestos related diseases along with plumbers and other contractors.

    I still encounter Asbestos every day, I hate it, there’s a terrible attitude that many builders have towards asbestos, I see it ripped out by idiot guys without masks all the time, if these guys are around you just walk off the job, there’s nothing you can do but walk, you’ll lose money but hey? life’s not fair.

    Smokers are in four times more danger.

16. superdonyoungy on December 4, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    A good thing to carry is a water spray, an atomiser like the hair stylist uses, if you need to disturb an area where you are concerned about fibers then spray a mist over them before you do anything.

    Asbestos guys use plain old PVA (wood)glue mixed with hot water to enable it to be sprayed when they wet fibres down, mix a spray with hot water and PVA glue and shake it until it’s mixed up and white then spray the areas that concern you.

    If you have any questions I’ll try to help out.

17. 215alessio on February 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    @superdonyyoungy: pls correction P3 mask for asbestos!
    the finest mask only.
    P2 is for glass fiber

18. dkallday322 on March 1, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    this video sucks wheres the porn!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao!

19. YOMAMAXXL on March 2, 2010 at 10:41 am

    haha 0:54 that guy totally got lung cancer

20. flyrock45 on March 25, 2010 at 3:06 am

    Johns Manville…Ironic how a huge corporation involving his name is in the insulation business.

21. maxpower978 on April 9, 2010 at 11:56 pm

    You can find this stuff in old car breaks its depressing =(

22. 427sideoiler on April 26, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    markdcatlin is right the EPA ban of 1990 was overturned in the court of appeals and products are still available commercially like roofing, gaskets, brakes and clutches

23. JerryGruszecki on May 10, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    @sunshinei3D umm there is tosis in everything iam a local 95 heat and frost insulator and asbestos worker, and they use asbestos to this day in many many products. its only controlled better …not banned

24. tnerual888 on May 14, 2010 at 9:55 am

    @YOMAMAXXL why..

25. YOMAMAXXL on May 14, 2010 at 6:52 pm

    @tnerual888 cuz hes touching a highly poisonous lung cancer-causing substace with his bare hands? lol

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