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Jim wrote:

All asbestos is evil. Chances are the panels are white asbestos
though

This would normally be true, except that the OP likened the product to
plasterboard. Asbestos cement is IMO not likely to be likened to
plasterboard, asbestos or non-asbestos insulating board might be.

(AIUI!) which is the least evil. The only way to be sure is
to have someone licensed to do solid material (rather than
air-sample) testing come and remove a piece for examination.

This is also true. Air sampling is unlikely to be suggested anyway
unless a sample of the material has been taken and tested and there is
reason to believe that asbestos fibres have been released into the air
for some reason.

If you remove it yourself it will need to be disposed by
a licensed disposal company. Personally I'd rather pay
someone else to get rid of it...

That would depend on what it was.

Useful links:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/asbestos/index.htm
http://www.tica-acad.co.uk/database.htm



Nonsense from start to finish.

Less nonsense than what you wrote IMO.

Get it straight from the researchers:
www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk
http://www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk/ACM.pdf

Note that I am not disputing what is on that site or what Asbestos
Watchdog do. I am disputing your interpretation of it.

The brief summary: white asbestos is perfectly safe,

This is nonsense, it isn't. That site does not say that. Or if it does,
I can't find where, perhaps if you disagree you could quote the relevant
section?

nearly all asbestos is white.

This is also nonsense. Nearly all the asbestos that ordinary
householders are likely to have in their houses is white, sure, because
the most likely product that they will have is asbestos cement.

but if its blue or brown asbestos, theyre very
different substances to white, .

Yes, they are different substances. Brown asbestos if very different to
blue asbestos too.

and not at all safe.

They are as safe as anything else if they are bound in another substance
and not disturbed.

Blue and brown are easy to spot,

They are sometimes easy to spot, if you know what you are looking for.
They can also be present as fibres which are too small to see with the
naked eye but in quantities which will produce high levels of fibres in
the air if disturbed.

theyre blue and brown respectively!

Blue is blue certainly, but at a fibre size big enough to see with the
naked eye the blue is not always visible. Amosite varies from very pale
brown, almost white, to quite a dark brown and can also be too small to
see with the naked eye.


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