PipeDown wrote:

why wouild you install a health hazard which you need to disclose in
writing to the next buyer (who will want you to remove it anyway)
when you can just go to HD and buy a sheet of cement backer board for
$10. If you have the tools to fashon sheet metal then I think that
is a no-brainer.

1. Because asbestos is not a health hazard, and
2. He's got it on hand, and
3. He wants to prevent a fire.

You are correct, though. Hysteria over asbestos is characteristic of those
whose brains are merely painted on.


Really, would you use a can of old Lead paint if you had one?

Sure. Why not? Lead paint is hazardous only to toddlers who bite it. It is
unlikely, for instance, for a toddler to be found gnawing on a gutter.


You should paint the asbestos board, put it in a plastic bag, label
it and bring it to the dump on household haz mat day (if you have
one) before you are tempted to use it again.

If you just want to be rid of it, you could leave it in a school yard the
next dark night.