How to Identify Asbestos Insulation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2020
- Asbestos insulation was manufactured between 1866 and 1978. Therefore, buildings that were built before 1978 most likely contain asbestos insulation. Types of asbestos insulation include loose-fill insulation, pipe wrap, block insulation, acoustic tiles, and spray-on insulation.
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This video doesn't do what it title claims "how to identify asbestos insulation"
1:12 that's not asbestos insulation, that picture is of cellulose blow in insulation and is a newer and safe form of loose fill insulation which is made mostly of recycled glass and newspaper. You can see the small prices of newspaper in the photo. I would love to see an in depth look at the differences between cellulose loose fill and asbestos loose fill insulations.
I was gonna ask this question! That photo looks like what we have in our attic, and I'm pretty certain the inspector said we don't have asbestos insulation.
There is no way to know if it doesn't contains asbestos until it is tested. Asbestos was fairly commonly used in cellulose and manufactured insulation in various parts of the us for a long time
@@AJuniorOutdoorsman In the other parts of the world like the UK, thats possibly true.
But through my experience here in western australia, you'd be very hard pressed to find a sample of old cellulose with a significant amount of asbestos in it. I work in the business of insulation, i work around asbestos, and im 99% sure the material in that photo is brand new cellulose/fibreglass insulation. You absolutely can make an educated guess.
In Australia, their insulation is called Mr. Fluffy. Isn't that similar looking?
@@LaserRifle It's very similar looking. I commented on this a year ago, and now looking back at the thumbnail I'm less certain as to what that is than I was back then.
The key visual difference between Mr Fluffy and paper based loose fill insulation is the presence of small pieces of newspaper in the sample. You'd be able to see the letters on the printed newspaper. But Mr Fluffy in particular is almost purely asbestos and has little to no newspaper in it.
I'm sure this is a complex issue in Canberra. But in WA where I've worked, there isn't really any loose fill asbestos. It's all just paper based loose fill or formaldehyde and fibreglass batts. At least that's what my experience has been.
Please change your title and learn the difference between general information and how to identify. SMH
Thank you for sharing this very good and important contribution, because unfortunately there is still a lack of education about the possible uses of asbestos. Whether in floors, screeds and leveling compounds, electrical installations, in tile adhesives and joint compounds, the mastic of windows and doors, and in many other materials in and around the house - there are countless possible areas of application for asbestos that surprise even experts time and again.
Asbestos fibers are usually so thin that you can hardly see them with the naked eye. And when you do detect fibers, they can be anything. We are skeptical about this "detectability", as well as about rapid tests. Particularly in the case of renovation and refurbishment work, the following therefore applies: Exercise the greatest caution and play it safe! Even a small material sample is sufficient to determine in a professional test procedure whether a suspicious material contains asbestos. If the commissioned analysis confirms the suspicion of asbestos, have any work on it carried out exclusively by service providers with the necessary certificate of competence. This is the only way you can be sure that there will be no accidental contamination of your living space, clothing or workshops with asbestos fibers.
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Has anyone ever seen loose-fill asbestos in an attic? There are very few decent photographs or information about this ANYWHERE!
Isn't loose fill asbestos pretty rare?
@@jaffacalling53 I think the problem is the UK the health and safety executive have published material referring to it being commonly found in lofts which is s bit confusing when everything else I've read suggests it's extremely rare in domestic properties. Also some of the pics online make it look almost identical to loose fill fibreglass.
@@nelljamina419 perhaps you mean fiberglass? Or bubblewrap? For a greenhouse.
@@bsanchez3563 Sorry not sure what you mean?
Yes, loose fill manufactured asbestos insulation and vermiculite blow in is very common where I work and is a high % of the work I do during the summer
Should look into renaming this video🤦♂️
Wittenoom w.a had blue asbestos mining town of Wittenoom gorge mines and 2000 people died from metheoma asbestos industry in Western Australia in Wittenoom gorge mines
Why do you have to get it tested cant you see it?
You can look up asbestos testing offices online to send a sample in. Any asbestos training center can tell you.
@@guyfromsouthwest8959 y do tht
Asbestos fibers are way to small to see to the human eye, so there is no way to know something DOESNT contain it without testing.
Some things you can presume DO have it, like mag elbows on pipes (97% of the time they contain asbestos in very high amounts, the other 3% is usually artificially made fibers which are probably just as harmful), or vermiculite insulation in areas where the vermiculite deposits are known to be contaminated with asbestos.
😅 this is simply about asbestos. Not how to identify
This videos shows a bunch of stock footage that isn't asbestos. Not really what I consider an accurate professional video.