On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:19:32 GMT, Clive Mitchell
wrote:


If it is asbestolux it's nowhere near as dangerous as raw asbestos.

Asbestolux contains a high proportion of brown asbestos (Amosite) in
a friable form. Are you thinking of Chrysotile cement sheeting which
contains smaller amounts of Chrysotile (white) asbestos in a cement
binder?

Most of the asbestosis problems were caused by blue asbestos which looks
juts like tumble drier fluff.

Most were caused by blue and brown asbestos.

In the same situation I would get a cheap disposable boilersuit and good
quality disposable dust mask, then carefully remove it and place it in
heavy duty plastic bags. It shouldn't pose much of a health risk to do
so, although you would obviously avoid shattering and smashing it all up
into fragments.

Problem is that if the board is Asbestolux then what you propose is
illegal as well as much more dangerous than doing nothing. It is
only asbestos cement which can be treated in this way.
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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/