"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Ed Chait" wrote in message
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If your house is older than mid-70's, asbestos was sometimes a component
of popcorn ceilings.

You might want to know for certain before you go scraping away at it.

ed

So what? It is encapsulated and harmless. Reeder's Digest has a good
article about asbestos fraud in the January issue.

It is encapsulated and harmless until you go at it with a scraper. Then you
are releasing asbestos fibers into the air and it is no longer harmless.

While I agree that the issue is often overblown and a whole industry has
sprouted around "asbestos abatement" asbestos is a very real health concern
and scraping away at a popcorn ceiling that contains it is not a good idea.

ed