Asbestos not only needs removing professionally for health and safety reasons, but also to ensure the safe disposal of asbestos materials. Dumping asbestos is illegal – I am wondering what you have done with the asbestos you have removed? as this could pose a health threat to some other unsuspecting individuals. I.e. Even a licenced tip is not a safe place for asbestos to end up, worse still – children end up playing with the stuff when dumped.

If you hired out your own industrial vacuum cleaner to remove the asbestos yourself – you would also require a respirator, as a bog standard mask will not offer you protection from inhaling the dust.

Any one who laughs at the potential health hazards of asbestos need to be more educated on the subject – and maybe consider the 3,000 people a year that die from asbestos- related disease!

Some examples – A man died from mesothelioma (a deadly type of cancer) through asbestos inhalation. He inhaled asbestos dust from scraping moss off his garage roof – once a year!, and a teacher is currently dying from the same disease, she developed it after years of sticking drawing pins an asbestos – backed board.

It would be fair to say that long exposure to asbestos poses a far higher risk of an asbestos-related disease – but at the same time no one can say (not even medical professionals) that lower exposure is safe, as it only takes one asbestos fibre to be lodged deep within the lung to cause an immflamitory response and disrupt normal cells – hence divide and promote cancer cells.

Please read more about the hazards of asbestos on my website – you will be be very surprised concerning the dangers of asbestos, and think differently about it in the future.

Hope this reply helps,

Kind regards,

Ann.