Anybody come across asbestos in old block adhesive before, being asked a question from a builder, someone has told him the adhesive in a 100 year old hall will have asbestos ?
Surely with it being 100 yrs old it will of been laid with hot pitch ?? Asbestos didn't really come out till after the 2nd World War...mid 50's i think...I'm not 100% sure of this mind !!
Asbestos has been around for many years. If remember correct they linked deaths/illness to it first in 1906 !
here you go - Later in 1899 Dr. Montague Murray noted the negative health effects of asbestos.[SUP][30][/SUP] The first documented death related to asbestos was in 1906.[SUP][31][/SUP] In the early 1900s researchers began to notice a large number of early deaths and lung problems in asbestos mining towns. The first diagnosis of asbestosis was made in the UK in 1924
Actually Matt, it was first documented in 1924 by Cooke and Murry actually reported it in 1899.Asb estos was manufactured in products in 1879
Could you get someone to test it? I have a guy that test vinyl tiles for me for £50 and get a certificate with it
My builder has come back to me and said its not in the clients asbestos register, so panic over, we are not even touching them, only sanding them, actually found a great new product while i was away in Italy, you sand off all the old surface and then use a squeegee and put this product all over and it seeps between the blocks and goes undernearth and expands and sticks them all together, which stops them rattling ! or so they say but will give it a test could come in handy
Really interested in that UV so many times you go on a job & they say "a few of them are loose" two days later you've lost the will to live & you know there's still more.
Lol, once you take a few up your chasing the hollow spots around the whole floor! Sounds like a good product.
