ladywendolyn
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Post by ladywendolyn on Feb 4, 2018 23:45:39 GMT -8
Interesting thread... I wear tight fitting gloves like the ones above. -My one comment is that I have learned to buy tools that are smaller in size as I am only 5'1" and 125 pounds. I don't like using tools that are too big and heavy for my size... accident waiting to happen. So I have bought smaller versions of drills, sanders, routers, etc. I even have a miniature sized skill saw that came with a set of tools that all work off batteries. -I have also learned to ask for help when needed instead of trying to lift, and carry big panels etc myself. This seems to be a weak spot for some people.lol I also bought a asbestos proof mask even though I am not pulling out all my tiles, I am adding a sub floor above, but I occasionally have to cut into them when repairing sections of the floor. Better safe than sorry...
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Post by mobiltec on Feb 5, 2018 6:52:38 GMT -8
You know, just because something was made from asbestos doesn't mean you are going to die from being near it. It must be in a dust like form and airborne in order for you to get it in your lungs. And then you must be working around it and breathing it in like that for years before it will do anything really harmful to you. I'm not a doctor. Do what you want. But I've been working around things like this my whole life. When I was a baby I crawled on these floors, chewed on lead based painted base board, didn't wear a helmet when learning to ride a bike and we didn't have seat belts. How the heck did I survive all these years? Oh... and we had no cell phones and no internet. Amazing that we lived through it all eh?
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Post by ladywendolyn on Feb 5, 2018 10:40:28 GMT -8
You know, just because something was made from asbestos doesn't mean you are going to die from being near it. It must be in a dust like form and airborne in order for you to get it in your lungs. And then you must be working around it and breathing it in like that for years before it will do anything really harmful to you. I'm not a doctor. Do what you want. But I've been working around things like this my whole life. When I was a baby I crawled on these floors, chewed on lead based painted base board, didn't wear a helmet when learning to ride a bike and we didn't have seat belts. How the heck did I survive all these years? Oh... and we had no cell phones and no internet. Amazing that we lived through it all eh? I am pretty much the same thought as you, as in "people worry too much", except for asbestos. I don't believe you die from just being around it a short time, but I did a lot of reading about a few years back, after I read an autobiography of a young guy who died of a rare cancer that is caused specifically from asbestos. He had spent one summer (6 weeks), when he was 18 working on unloading trucks that carried some product that had asbestos. No masks were offered because in those days no one knew the risk. Ten years later he developed cancer and died. The type of cancer he got was asbestos contact specific. So that book made me think... 6 weeks of your life, doing a summer job as a teenager for minimum wage and it kills you. Sad story... Now here is the bizarre twist of fate... The same summer I read that book, my 18 year old son had been hired by a local guy who ran a marina, and he came home one day and told me they were tearing down an old building with asbestos shingles on the side (we have them in canada). He showed me the flimsy drywall dust mask the boss gave him. Now in Canada his boss was breaking the law because you can not take down a commercial asbestos building, you can only hire a special company, plus no proper masks. I called his boss and let him know that my son would not be doing that job, or I would be calling the health department. I have always wondered whether it was divine guidance that made me pick up that autobiography at the local used bookstore, because otherwise I would not have known enough to stop my son from doing something so dangerous without protective equipment. Strange but true... What I did learn from all my reading is that you need a combination of exposure and the DNA susceptibility for that cancer. Exposure is not enough on it's own... imagine all the guys who laid all these floors in the 1950's .. no masks.. how many got cancer? Not many.. but I'll wear the purple mask, to be on the safe side as I do not know if I am resistant or not.
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Post by vikx on Feb 5, 2018 20:04:33 GMT -8
Thank you LadyW. Sad story, but some people need very little exposure and some of us have been in it for years. Grinding brake pads was a common job that had a lot of dust but most of the guys are still with us and cancer free.
Common sense will protect from asbestos. Wear a good mask and dampen things that may put dust in the air...
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