Asbestos siding disposal

[chim]

The DEP website in PA says asbestos abatement is not regulated by them for a residence unless the residence is an apartment with 5 or more units. I took a gander at the MO DEP website, and although I didn't search in detail, it looks like the MO DEP regulates all removal......................chim

 

[thcri]

Rick,

Check into whatever regulations you can find and if you can get some things in writing before you do anything. As a HVAC Contractor in Minnesota we don't touch nothing unless you want to glady pay a fine to go with it. We had a window in a remodel job that had a trim on it that was suspect of asbestos. While no one new for sure if it was asbestos and it was only 4 square inches, yes 4 square inches, the specs called out a $25,000 dollar fine if any contractor other than the asbestos contractor touched it. Now if there was a bunch of other asbestos on this project I could understand, but that was all there was and no one was sure it was even asbestos. The other thing you can do is call your local Fire Department and if your just going to destroy the house, donate the house for training purposes and let them burn it down. For training they may dig further into it and decide what can be done with it. Just a thought, I have seen it done around here.

murph

 

[AndyM]

Remember back in school when we used to play with a ball of mercury and roll it around. Nowdays, when a thermometer breaks in a school, they close the building for a full week and bring in the full crew and decontaminete the ENTIRE building. You would think they had 3 Mile Island going on or something.

Anyway, on my old house I had, I mean, I knew this one guy who had asbestos siding and he tore it all off himself and threw it away little by little each week in trash bags. It worked for him! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BLUEBONNET2]

good morning,

A few years (7) back , I bought a building that had asbestos based flooring tiles. The local city inspector told me to dispose of the tiles, we had to double(2 bags) wrap them in 6 mil. poly bags (55 gal. size) and haul them to the city land fill. 6 mil bags are extra heavy duty, and you can get them from an industrial supply house. We did this with his on site inspection and it was ok. The cost to carry them to the dump was $125.00 per bag. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif (5 bags)
The problem with this stuff is when it is in powder form, thats when it become a breathing hazard. Be sure you use a breathing resprirator when handling this stuff and try not to break it up.

good luck,
bluebonnet2
p.s. we used duck tape as a tie wrap......

 

[Thomas]

Here in City of Lebanon, NH you need 2 permits to remove asbestos..$$ /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif plus container clearly mark,also special dumping fee $$ /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

When a contractor removes any tiles the sub area w/the glue also has to be bag and tag $$. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

The new kicker around this area,any house that has soilder copper joint w/50/50{tin & lead} will be inspected. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif and could reduce the sale price.

So even if you say by as is that doesn't carry much anymore..found this out when selling my late father estate.

2.9F..Clear sky..2 deer feeding. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[RBManufacturing]

Hi Guys,
Thank you for the valuable info. I plan to re-negotiate the
asking price today. Seller not easy to work with. He knows
he can sell it easily if I do not buy it. I wish I had started
buying property years ago. 3/4 acre directly behind my
house recently sold for $90,000. I could have bought it 20 yrs.
ago for $3,000. Developer bought it, and built 3 houses, and
he tells me he made a LARGE profit on it. Again, thanks guys.
AHHHH, TBN!!! The encyclopedia of knowledgeable individuals!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Junkman]

If 50/50 solder reduces the sale price of homes, there are going to be billions of people that are going to be awfully surprised at the depreciated value of their homes. 50/50 solder was used for over 50 years in homes!!!!!

 

[slowrev]

5030,
What about playing with mercury and rubbing it on coins ? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And always smoke while refueling a machine /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

As to the asbestos siding removal, keep it damp while removing it to reduce the risk of airborne asbestos particles. Wear disposable coveralls and a good particulate respirator and you will be fine. Landfill will probably take it, but check first. I think asbestos is supposed to be bagged or tarped when it is being hauled.

 

[5030]

Andy:

I know you can tell I am in a cynical mood these days. Must have something to do with the holidays. (humbug)!!

When I was a kid (long ago), my late father was head of Analytical Research for the defunct Republic Steel Company.

He use to bring the neatest gadgets home for me and (him) to play with. I remember rolling the balls of mercury around on the concrete basement floor. I asked my dad why the mercury was liquid and he told me that it was because at room temperature it was in a liquid state just like steel would be in a liquid state at 3,000 degrees. I guess he never concerned himself with the fact that the liquid mercury was actually vaporizing into the air.

One day, my father brought some laboratory pure iodine home. Iodine crystals are extremely volatile so it must be kept in a liquid state with distilled water. In comparison, the iodine that you buy at the pharmacy for cuts is about 1/1000 the concentration of what my dad had.

He brushed a small amount of the liquid iodine on the porch railing in the sun. It dried almost instantly. He told me to watch when a bug landed on the crystallized iodine. It only took about a minute before a fly landed on the iodine and BANG--no more fly.

I remember my dad bringing home lab grade Carbon Tet. It is positively the best degreaser known to man. Fantastic for getting grease stains out of clothes. Too bad it's also lethal.

My dad was one of the pioneers in the use of Teflon for lab apparatus. Unfortunately, RSC had the right to all his inventions as he was a company employee.

His tinkering with Teflon in his basement shop got me interested in tool and die making. I used to help him turn and machine blanks of solid PTFE Fluorocarbon over 40 years ago. I remember that we used to save all the swarf. We meticulously swept it up and returned it to the manufacturer. My dad always told me it was very expensive. I bet it was, 40 years ago. I had no inkling that, in about 25 years, Teflon ( which is DuPont's market name for PTFE Fluorocarbon) would effect our daily lives as much as it does.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Daryl Youve got me thinking about that 2 gallon can of Mercury I have in the old shop. I had an uncle that worked for Dupont and he had several stainless steel canisters of it. The highschool science teacher anted some of it so I brought him a half gallon canister he flipped out saying it was 100 times more than the scholl was liscend for.
An older Austrian man here that built clocks was needing som for a coo coo clock I gave him a pint of it in exchange he gave me some lathe tools. I called the hazardous waste folks here in MS and they wanted too much to dispose it so I guess it will stay in that container.
On the Asbestos side the contractors or state workers have to take it to the lined land fill at Houston MS. But a plain old home owner can dump it in the local landfill. We have a house we bought across the road we will have to tear the siding off of. Well have a water truck soaking it and be in full suits. than we will remove the topsoil around the edges of the house.