Re: Add to the City Building problem — asbestos

[Guest guest]

Truly the last thing I want to think about is asbestos. I was exposed to a lot

more than what the police in the article were--first, over a period of a year,

as construction was occuring on our upstairs, and chunks of plaster and dust

would fall out of our ceiling downstairs and then when we removed a ceiling

ourselves to prove that the upstairs work (we had to have the upstairs rebuilt

after a collapse) had structural problems. Long story short, as per our

structural engineer's advisement, we sawed through the ceiling for like six

hours to get it down and expose the joists above. It was only later we

remembered that 1940s plaster could have have asbestos--and when we had a sample

tested, actonite came up. A very, very bad asbestos to breathe in. In our

current condo, I discovered to my horror that people would have their

asbestos-covered boilers worked on without proper asbestos containment and

cleanup procedures. I will be lucky if mold and bacteria

are the worst of my what my body has to deal with.