07 Apr What To Do When You Have Asbestos Found!
Today’s subject is dealing with asbestos abatement and what steps are necessary when you have asbestos found. Asbestos would be found by a certified asbestos consultant. It could even be a home inspector who found some things that appear to be asbestos contained material.
You would want to have it tested by a CAC: Certified Asbestos Consultant. After that report comes in, it is sent over to asbestos abatement company and they’ll put together a free estimate for you on what it would cost to abate it. Which is essentially, remove it.
When you are removing asbestos, you want to engineer the job in such a fashion, that you keep the asbestos from being friable, getting airborne, and more importantly, from cross contaminating from a damaged area to a non damaged area. That is why you want a professional asbestos abatement contractor to do it.
They use moisture and water and they keep the things wet. In fact, they even have a shower that they dawn and off their PP (Personal Protecter) equipment, and they get in that shower and rinse off, so they don’t take those harmful minerals back to their home.
If you have asbestos contamination, which would be more then just presence and absence; which is pretty much what asbestos testing is.
If you have allowed it to become friable, then you have what is called a P5: a procedure 5, which now means you have had the air contaminated, and a procedure 5 would have to be written up as to deal with that, and the asbestos abatement contractor would follow the P5 report.
When you have results that come back positive, it can take up to 10 days for the AQMD to give a you a pass or a green light to go ahead and start the project. Especially if it is over 100 feet. There are a lot of regulations and protocols in place to protect you and the workers, when in comes to asbestos abatement.