House renovation in the summer of 1999?
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at
9:36 am
My friend had her 1940s house renovated in the summer of 1999, would the builders who done the work have known if there was asbestos in the property before doing the work. This is something I’ve always wondered if builders are gutting an old house and asbestos is known to be in old wall plaster, flooring, boilers etc, how do the builders know if the old plaster etc that they are ripping out contain asbestos or not, or do they do tests first. I live in the Uk.
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Ik leef in de V.S. en voor zover ik, they' het weet; ve die asbest het testen hier sinds de jaren ‘80 doet. Ik werk op het bouwgebied en vóór om het even welke vergunningen kan voor vernieling worden uitgegeven, moet de plaats vrij van verontreinigende stoffen door een vergunning gegeven milieucontractant worden verklaard. Zoals voor een woonbezit, zou ik veronderstellen dat de asbestkwestie werd behandeld als de contractant de juiste vergunningen trok.
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As builders they should (by 1999) have been aware but the requirement to carry out asbestos surveys to find out if there are any ACM’s (asbestos containing materials) wasn’t around then so its unlikely.
Commercial properties now have an asbestos register so builders can look and see before starting work, but even now residential property doesn’t need this – so unless the builders are aware and request a test it doesn’t get done. Testing consists of bulk samples – where a piece of suspected material (thumbnail size) is taken to a lab and analysed. This costs around £30 today, as asbestos is dangerous when its airborn, then air sampling (testing) for that involves placing pumps which suck in air over a perieod of time (say 4 hours) and then analysing the results – this costs £300+. I suspect that if this was carried out while your friend was living there she would have known about it – and the builder would have mentioned it. The most dangerous sort of asbestos is the soft crumbly sort that often surrounds heating pipes as lagging (although not all lagging contains asbestos, indeed its outlawed now).
This is a good question that everyone who renovates an old house should be asking.
Yes, asbestos abatement has been required for 25-30 years in the US. She should be fine.