Looks like asbestos?

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Jerry Atrick
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Re: Looks like asbestos?

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tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:04 am In 1968 I had a job as a labourer fitting suspended ceilings in a new building, a giant factory. We were cutting huge sheets of blue asbestos. No face masks.
I would get home covered in dust. My mum would make me take of my clothes in the garden and shake them down. Done it for about a month.
I have had pneumonia 3 times now but so far no suggestion of anything else, I guess I was lucky.

I have no idea who I worked for it was cash in hand so even if I got ill I couldn't get a pay out. I have reached 70 so not too worried now
My old man, uncles and grandad did all the outhouses and sheds around my home place in the 60's using asbestos and so did all the houses in the area

The perceived wisdom was that as long as you weren't breathing minute fibers of the stuff you'd be okay

None of them died of cancer anyhow

Asbestos is still used in grout, plasterboard, brake pads, clutches, thermal shielding and floor tiles in this corner of the world, legally, so beware of construction dust
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Re: Looks like asbestos?

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Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Mon Aug 02, 2021 11:47 am
tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:04 am In 1968 I had a job as a labourer fitting suspended ceilings in a new building, a giant factory. We were cutting huge sheets of blue asbestos. No face masks.
I would get home covered in dust. My mum would make me take of my clothes in the garden and shake them down. Done it for about a month.
I have had pneumonia 3 times now but so far no suggestion of anything else, I guess I was lucky.

I have no idea who I worked for it was cash in hand so even if I got ill I couldn't get a pay out. I have reached 70 so not too worried now
My old man, uncles and grandad did all the outhouses and sheds around my home place in the 60's using asbestos and so did all the houses in the area

The perceived wisdom was that as long as you weren't breathing minute fibers of the stuff you'd be okay

None of them died of cancer anyhow

Asbestos is still used in grout, plasterboard, brake pads, clutches, thermal shielding and floor tiles in this corner of the world, legally, so beware of construction dust
All the council car garages were made of the stuff, same has the old prefabricated housing. I used to paint the rooms at the hospitals in the Leeds area, and there still are many of the water pipes lagged with asbestos.
Well noted Jerry Atrick for it used still in these parts.
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