FlipperK
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Hi all,
Been awhile since I have been on here but I have to post something to get this off my chest.
We recently moved houses due to my job and we bought a recently flipped 1972 house.
Now, I have not had any of this confirmed and nothing ever showed up in the inspection reports, I even asked my AC guy and pest control guy. Asbestos. No one has brought up any concern about it.
I am 30 years young. I did not grow up in the era of asbestos and I am very much wishing I didn’t find out about it.
Anyways, this home was a foreclosure years ago and a construction/flipping company bought it and flipped it. It looks very nice. However the yard had debris (dry wall, insulation, prices of wood, nails, etc) from it all. Not piles of it, but small pieces where they were piling up the debris they were ripping out. We picked up most of it. I fear some of it contained asbestos. We buried a lot of it as well with layers of dirt.
People tell me that it’s extremely common for construction companies burry debris all the time. It just happens
Given the age of the house, I am worried that asbestos is everywhere. Now every time I see a hole in the wall I worry about asbestos. I am even afraid to hang pictures on the wall with nails and clips. Given the mess in the yard, I feel like the contractor skipped steps and have put me and my family in danger.
My AC guy has not seen anything, my pest control guy in the attic states he didn’t see any asbestos (says he is trained to spot it). My parents and my wife are all saying I’m being paranoid and that many people do renovations on their homes this old all the time and they aren’t dead. Is it possible? Maybe, but I am blowing this way out of proportion
My grandfather was a ship welder in Galveston TX port. He worked as that for over 30+ years and ended up dying of a heart attack in his 70s. He did have asbestosis, but not cancer. My mom and my grandmother who washed his clothes have not developed anything from it.
My father, a car mechanic, has most likely been exposed to it for the last 40 years. He is perfectly healthy at the age of 63.
I even helped tear apart my grandmothers garage with my dad, a house built before 1950. So there’s that too.
Anyways, I have read everything from a dead sentence from just 1 fiber to medical journals stating it’s a long term exposure issue. I have been on asbestos forums and cancer forums, it looks like the universal answer is, small one time exposures aren’t really an issue to worry about. It’s everywhere and the amount of deaths attributed to it doesn’t correlate to the amount of people exposed. Overwhelming majority is long term medium+ exposure. It’s in the environment and in many many buildings. In essence, yes it’s dangerous, but not as dangerous as everyone makes it out to be... an automatic death sentence.
Anyways, I am going to get with my insurance and doctor to get some therapy about this worry. It’s affecting my daily life now and I can’t enjoy anything. I am on medication but this is bad.
Been awhile since I have been on here but I have to post something to get this off my chest.
We recently moved houses due to my job and we bought a recently flipped 1972 house.
Now, I have not had any of this confirmed and nothing ever showed up in the inspection reports, I even asked my AC guy and pest control guy. Asbestos. No one has brought up any concern about it.
I am 30 years young. I did not grow up in the era of asbestos and I am very much wishing I didn’t find out about it.
Anyways, this home was a foreclosure years ago and a construction/flipping company bought it and flipped it. It looks very nice. However the yard had debris (dry wall, insulation, prices of wood, nails, etc) from it all. Not piles of it, but small pieces where they were piling up the debris they were ripping out. We picked up most of it. I fear some of it contained asbestos. We buried a lot of it as well with layers of dirt.
People tell me that it’s extremely common for construction companies burry debris all the time. It just happens
Given the age of the house, I am worried that asbestos is everywhere. Now every time I see a hole in the wall I worry about asbestos. I am even afraid to hang pictures on the wall with nails and clips. Given the mess in the yard, I feel like the contractor skipped steps and have put me and my family in danger.
My AC guy has not seen anything, my pest control guy in the attic states he didn’t see any asbestos (says he is trained to spot it). My parents and my wife are all saying I’m being paranoid and that many people do renovations on their homes this old all the time and they aren’t dead. Is it possible? Maybe, but I am blowing this way out of proportion
My grandfather was a ship welder in Galveston TX port. He worked as that for over 30+ years and ended up dying of a heart attack in his 70s. He did have asbestosis, but not cancer. My mom and my grandmother who washed his clothes have not developed anything from it.
My father, a car mechanic, has most likely been exposed to it for the last 40 years. He is perfectly healthy at the age of 63.
I even helped tear apart my grandmothers garage with my dad, a house built before 1950. So there’s that too.
Anyways, I have read everything from a dead sentence from just 1 fiber to medical journals stating it’s a long term exposure issue. I have been on asbestos forums and cancer forums, it looks like the universal answer is, small one time exposures aren’t really an issue to worry about. It’s everywhere and the amount of deaths attributed to it doesn’t correlate to the amount of people exposed. Overwhelming majority is long term medium+ exposure. It’s in the environment and in many many buildings. In essence, yes it’s dangerous, but not as dangerous as everyone makes it out to be... an automatic death sentence.
Anyways, I am going to get with my insurance and doctor to get some therapy about this worry. It’s affecting my daily life now and I can’t enjoy anything. I am on medication but this is bad.
