Asbestos House in Vancouver

[Skippy599]

Next to my friend's house in Vancouver, BC. Houses like this which aren't taken care of tend to have floods and fires and end up getting diagnosed with asbestos gyp rock in their house. If the property isn't worth the remediation cost, the get torn down, like this one.

[Mad Aussie]

Used to be someones home ... sad

[theantiquetiger]

I'm not sure what you mean by asbestos growing. Asbestos was used in insulation, lanolium floors, Sheetrock, concrete, etc. it is a natural occurring substance found in rock. It was actually a great building material. It gave concrete strength, insulated very well, but if the concrete or whatever contained it was broken, the fibers from the asbestos were released into the air. They are tiny dust like fibers with sharp edges and when you breath them, they stick to the walls of your lungs. After breathing them for a long time, they damage your lungs.

I think in the next 20 years, they gonna come out and say the insulation in most houses today are bad for your lungs as well. You know how itchy they can get when you mess with them.

Houses that flood like you said in your post usually grow black mold in the Sheetrock. This mold is also very bad for you, causing many health problems. It was a major problem down here in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. 1000's of houses that were flooded and gutted. The sheetrock was just piled up on the road for collection.

[Skippy599]

Hey AntiqueTiger, I was posting from my phone and guess I didn't space out gyp rock, and auto-spell did the rest, And yes it was the most useful material around at one point, pretty sad that we have to use something for so long before we can figure out it hurts us so horribly. I do water damage restoration at a company that does asbestos remediation as well, tough jobs those guys have. As far as fibre glass insulation goes, I would suspect the same thing and that we'll all be using that green stuff. Or something cheaper :P