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Originally Posted by Ducay
Ya, well I'm trying to figure out if taking down the popcorn on a 1979 house is a death wish or not.
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I've taken down a few ceilings that had asbestos in them in the past year and it is not so bad. I did, however, have a guy that had been through courses in asbestos safety with me at all the jobs.
What we did was simply poly off the whole room. Walls, flooring, windows and especially vents. Then we suited up in respirators and sealing safety eyewear and went to town. You just have to stay very clean and be very careful. You will likely want to wash down the walls and use a vacuum with a hepa filter if you were working over carpet during the final clean up, just in case. Oh, and take a good hot shower as soon as you can when you are done.
I know there are rules on where you can dump the stuff. I believe you can get a permit through the city to dump it in a section of the city dumps. I never saw the debris after it left the site.