john_s

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Our council accept asbestos cement at the tip; you let them know in advance and they give you some visqueen to wrap the sheets in. Then you just take it and they open the asbestos skip for you to put it in. There was a limit to how many sheet's they'd let us take in a month, so we had to do it in two trips.

John.

Mr Bat

Well as asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral the whole world’s population is potentially at risk, including you....

In practice, because the risk from small exposures is so low, only those who are regularly exposed are significantly at risk.

If it's corrugated asbestos cement, suit up, FFP3 mask, goggles, wet it, double wrap and off you go, any other type nooooo.

Alternatively phone up your local gypsy and tell them it's magic cement that needs to be sawn, drilled, smashed up and sniffed like charlie to bring them all the barbequed hedgehogs they can eat.

njkmrs

Had some of the white stuff on my garage ceiling .It was screwed on ,so unscrewed it and took it to my local tip .Had a skip for it so threw it in there.Was a few breakages here and there ,but hey Im only goner die once .

kingofturds

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Bung a couple Polish £20 each to clear it

andy_s37

Ferk it, decision made. I'll put it on ebay with a buyer collects thingymebob on it and see what happens.

OR

Do like the simpsons did with their trampoline, i'll chain it to something and sooner or later someone will nick it!

Seriously though, the council will take it. Wednesday mornings there is a special skip for it. All you gotta do is double bag it, get them to come and inspect it (you get a "safe disposal" cert) and then take it to the tip on said day.

Andy.

P.S. as regards smashing it up

The Zohan

Could be a health hazzard (and pretty selfish) to the person who bins it and lots of others who used the tip, Best get advice on it!
Professional advice will cost nothing, better safe than sorry!!!

jameswrx

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Well if it's that bad I'm a dead man..

Used to play with it as a kid (karate choppping bits up for hours on end) Also stood behind my dad while he used and angle grinder to cut up sheets of the stuff.

Loost

bejezus im glad your still with us . possibly.


thought about buying a 1920's house recently with asbestos ceilings- was going to cost 10k to remove

unfeasablylargegonads

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Yeap, I was exposed to this stuff as a kid too and became a bit "so what" in attitude, however later I watched a family member die of asbestosis that certainly changed my mind, it was a horrible slow painfull death at a young age.

I would not take any risks at all with this stuff.

Leslie

Good sense there.

Les

sarasquares

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just out of curiosity, what are you doing with asbestos in the first place?

andy_s37

Moved into a house with an asbestos garage. I was a bit 'green' really and should have made it a condition of the sale that the garage went with the previous owner, so to speak. However, that was then and this is now and hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Andy.