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I’m buying a 60’s house with the old blown in asbestos popcorn ceilings. I hate the looks of them. I have heard you can cover it up with a thin layer of sheetrock, and I have also heard I can just mud over it.
Does anyone have any experiance with finding a solution,or have any suggestions as to what I might do?
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I would drywall right over it...I have scraped small areas clean and plastered with drywall mud but I think that would be alot of work to do in a whole house...Get a sub to do it as the rockers are one of the best values in construction....
near the stream,
aj
Happy Easter, Pass over and all
*Asbestos = "do not scrape"
*Steam it off with a wallpaper steamer.
*I know someone out there is going to ask me what the hell I was thinking, but..I had a hallway to do (removal) one time, and a guy told me to tape tarps to the floor, spray a light mist of water on the ceiling, let it soak for a few minutes, and scrape it off with a floor scraper(no dust). Bundle the tarps for disposal, re-skim the drywall, add texture of choice. It worked, I dont know how legal it was with the EPA, or HAZMAT, but it worked.
*Chris, man, what the hell were you thinkin'?
*Chris,I don't think I'm alone in wondering, just what the hell were you thinking ?
*Strictly FWIW, the owner of a local (NW Ohio) asbestos abatement firm said in a seminar that in _commercial_ work, he recommends removal rather than containment, on the grounds that in subsequent work it'll be harder to do a removal.He also said that in most residential, he recommends containment, as has been suggested here.Bob
*Not all (indeed damn few) "popcorn" ceilings are abestos. For $25, a local environmental lab will put it under a microscope and see if it is abestos.The water method works great. Just mist some H2O, and scrape it off. Use a wide drywall knife. Once it is off, dilute some mud (or topping mix is even better), and mud over some of the problem areas, and then shoot or roll the ceiling with paint.
*SEEE! Scooter did it too!
*If Scooter jumped off a cliff......
*Scooter,I can't help wonderin', what in hell were you thinkin'?Rich Beckman
*While I am not a risk taking type, I haven't raced bikes since the '60's, as kid in highschool I helped remove our old coal fired furnace - wrapped in asbestos along with all the pipes. Was real careful, didn't hit my feet or body with the sledgehammer I was using and I controlled the dust real well with a broom. Of course, my dad helped me and it killed him at 86 (not really), and I am still going with no effects at 53. I think about this sometimes, but then I get to wondering about the chloridane we mixed in 55 gal drums for the termites and I roll over and get some sleep.Dennis
*Gee, I did it too! Does that mean that by doing this, cleaning my rifle bore with mercury, cleaning parts for the hot rod with carbon tet, putting creosote on fence posts and siding houses with asbestos siding that I should have died years ago? Or at least been sorry?
*Dennis: We had a large drywall supplier ID a ceiling as non-asbestos and the spray-and-scrape method worked great. I have seen asbestos and was convivced that our "accoustic" ceiling (as we call it) was safe. Scooter is right, few ceilings are asbestos, but getting an expert opinion is cheap. Good luck.
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I don I think you have a thing to worry about spray it down with a pump sprayer with pure water cover the floors and walls up and scrape it off with a 6"taping or drywadry walle
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Asbestos is not a poisonous substance that will kill you on contact. it is long long term exposure, build-up of the small fibers in the lungs, scars forming around the deposits and then cancer setting in around the scar growth or something like that. It's like taking a day long tour through a coal mine and worrying that you're gonna keel over from black lung disease.
The EPA does allow you to remove up to a certain amount of asbestos from your home and discard of it in your normal trash with no special permits or the sort.
Wet it down, scrape it off, put it in the trash.
Pete
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I'm buying a 60's house with the old blown in asbestos popcorn ceilings. I hate the looks of them. I have heard you can cover it up with a thin layer of sheetrock, and I have also heard I can just mud over it.
Does anyone have any experiance with finding a solution,or have any suggestions as to what I might do?