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Visually Inspect for Potential Asbestos Locations

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Asbestos In The Abandoned House! SUPER DANGEROUS! (EP.10)

What happens here

Walk through the house to visually identify materials and locations that are historically known to contain asbestos. In the kitchen, note any loose insulation, which, if disturbed, can release fibers. In bathrooms, pay attention to shower panels and linoleum/vinyl flooring, as these were common ACMs in homes built before 1989. Other areas to visually inspect include water tank insulation, pipe lagging, loose-fill insulation (often found in attics or wall cavities), textured decorative coatings (like popcorn ceilings), ceiling tiles, insulation behind fuse boxes, partition walls, insulation around boilers, and insulation behind fireplaces. For any material that appears fibrous, crumbly, or in poor condition, assume it contains asbestos until testing confirms otherwise. Note that the visual inspection is for identifying *potential* ACMs for further testing, not for confirming the presence of asbestos itself.

Goal: Conduct a visual walkthrough of the property, focusing on areas and materials commonly known to contain asbestos in older construction.

Tools and materials

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So the plan that we want to do here and I don't know if you've seen the walk through here is obviously we want to demo this entire kitchen which cabinets I'm not worried about this is solid wood they're not using any kind of theoretically any kind of asbestos products we got a bunch of insulation that came down from the rooftop here now if you're thinking well you already have us you know potential asbestos there aren't you nervous well what they're saying is asbestos even if it's in the house in your walls and all that junk it's not really that dangerous unless it is disrupted if you started banging on it dust comes off if you start demoing dust comes out it starts flying in the air these little fibrous molecules and that's when it creates a hazardous situation of all asbestos used is in the construction industry and it's found in over 3 000 different domestic and Industrial Products inside these rocks are veins filled with mineral fibers in a continuous crushing and Milling process the fibers are separated from the host Rock few other minerals are as versatile as asbestos the fibers can reinforce cement or be woven into fire resistant fabric some fibers are visible to the human eye but it's the millions of smaller invisible particles that are so deadly two million of them could fit on a pinhead so just because you have a house with asbestos possibly in the wild this is technically a safe space for it unless you start banging cutting into the drywall and all that jazz this is this creepy attic I don't know if you've seen again the walkthrough but in case you haven't let's go see how creepy it is did I say addict I meant basement emanated oh look at these spider webs all over the place I got my light let's go check it out all these newspapers and magazines here family the family handyman so this is the unfinished basement and it can't really be finished because the the footings actually don't go far down enough as you can see they're about three feet tall here and then a bunch of dirt there what we have here is we have a furnace the HVAC system is coming up there and over here we have the line that's coming out for the well that's here oh and it turns out we also have an electric water heater that is rottening away check this out it's cracked and all the water I think kind of got absorbed to the ground which makes it kind of nice when it's down here because when something does break and leak uh you are not replacing flooring and the cool thing here…

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