download ice harvest the divx Last week when I was returning my boat to the house where I keep it I backed it into the side of the house and put a hole in the asbestos that clads the house.
Now its a bummer that I did that because asbestos is a bugger to fix and the rules on dealing with asbestos are incredibly tight… as I have discovered…
My first thought was to jigsaw the broken pieces back together with liquid nails, putty it up and all would be ok, however the break, while small just wasn’t going to do that.
Option B – take the trusty angle grinder to the asbestos and then slide in a new sheet of hardiflex? After reading the procedures and rules for working with asbestos I realised that would put everyone in danger especially me… Even with my ‘she’ll be right’ approach to life this just doesn’t seem worth the risk. I have seen someone die of mesothelioma and its not pretty.
Option C – remove the whole 3m sheet of asbestos? Also dodgy as it means dislodging asbestos fibres. (Sounds like these little fellas are really potent.) As well as that it is very exy as it means disposing of the asbestos and buying a bigger sheet to replace it. Lots of $$$
So to plan D… Scour the local building sites for cut offs of hardiflex that will make a good patch and then with the assistance of the trusty liquid nails try and tie it in with the existing stuff. So far so good… I’ll be back there this week to finish off, but I’ll be real careful with my driving from here on.
Asbestos… nasty stuff!