Asbestos

[jim8flog]

Hybrid ones are the way around it.. part central heating controlled part electric.(for the summer)

On a personal level I do not mind cold towels and my house in the main is warm enough to air dry them or I can just chuck them in the tumble drier.

 

[williamalex1]

Don’t mess around with asbestos.

Get someone who knows what they are doing to remove it. Or leave it where it is if it’s not in the way.

This is the correct answer.
On Thursday last week I attended the funeral of one of my apprentices, he was only 66.
He died of asbestos related cancer, probably caused when working in boiler houses 30/40 years ago.
There is an ongoing court case, claiming the local authority that he worked with all his working life.
RIP Alex.

 

[SocketRocket]

This is the correct answer.
On Thursday last week I attended the funeral of one of my apprentices, he was only 66.
He died of asbestos related cancer, probably caused when working in boiler houses 30/40 years ago.
There is an ongoing court case, claiming the local authority that he worked with all his working life.
RIP Alex.

That's a coincidence. I had a man contact me a few years ago who worked with me as a young Artificer, he told me was dying of asbestosis and wondered if I had any idea if he may have been in contact with it back then. Unfortunately I couldn't remember him being in contact with it other than some of the pipe lagging around then. Sadly he passed away a year ago.

 

[williamalex1]

That's a coincidence. I had a man contact me a few years ago who worked with me as a young Artificer, he told me was dying of asbestosis and wondered if I had any idea if he may have been in contact with it back then. Unfortunately I couldn't remember him being in contact with it other than some of the pipe lagging around then. Sadly he passed away a year ago.

I think the old pipe insulation stuff ( monkey dung )was always suspect, also ceiling tiles and anything around boilers.
Just your luck I suppose, I worked around it quite often
and seem to be un affected so far. Fingers crossed.

 

[Hobbit]

I think the old pipe insulation stuff
( monkey dung )was always suspect also ceiling tiles and anything around boilers.
Just your luck I suppose, I worked around it quite often
and seem to be un affected so far. Fingers crossed.

We’ve used it for ‘fire stopping’ between equipment rooms in telephone exchanges. Quite often the bags would burst - I’ve seen us make snow(asbestos) balls and throw them at each other. Not all of us are still here…

 

[williamalex1]

We’ve used it for ‘fire stopping’ between equipment rooms in telephone exchanges. Quite often the bags would burst - I’ve seen us make snow(asbestos) balls and throw them at each other. Not all of us are still here…

Health and safety wasn't a big thing when I started working back in 1962, you were just told to get on with it.

It's scary thinking back on some of the risky things we did regularly, without considering the consequences.

 

[Swango1980]

We’ve used it for ‘fire stopping’ between equipment rooms in telephone exchanges. Quite often the bags would burst - I’ve seen us make snow(asbestos) balls and throw them at each other. Not all of us are still here…

Would this be discouraged under current regulations?

 

[Hobbit]

Would this be discouraged under current regulations?

Eh? Current legislation has nothing to do with common sense. If we’d known then what we know now we wouldn’t even been using it, it’s been banned since Nov 1999, let alone making snowballs out of it.

 

[Swango1980]

Eh? Current legislation has nothing to do with common sense. If we’d known then what we know now we wouldn’t even been using it, it’s been banned since Nov 1999, let alone making snowballs out of it.

I was joking

 

[CliveW]

Problems with tanks have always been -
Every time you take out some hot water it is immediately replaced with cold so it cools down
Hot and cold tanks get sludge at the bottom.
You must heat the water to a around 70 C to kill any bacteria that might grow because the water is stored (with a combi you only heat the water to the temperature you need, less than 40C for washing hands and face.

A couple of years ago we moved to a modern house with a combi and no storage tanks. OK until the water board need to turn off the water, which has happened twice, then you have nothing. All you have is the water in the WC cistern and once flushed that's gone.