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[โ€“] SuperMoosie@mastodon.au 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@ajsadauskas
Asbestos is everywhere.

I remember playing with small chunks of fibro asbestos brought in with fill for the school playground at primary school on the early 80s.

The park across the road had tons of fill dropped on it in the early 80s that came from a new large shopping centre site in Baulkham Hills. The small mounds were there for a few years before it was flattened. Used to walk over them get to school. There were small chunks of fibro in there from the houses they knocked down.

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[โ€“] msdropbear42@venera.social 1 points 7 months ago

@SuperMoosie @ajsadauskas Are you ok? Do you periodically get your lungs scanned? ๐Ÿคž

My childhood house [in which Dad still lives] is a timber-framed fibro-clad job that M&D had a local builder build, in the late 50s. Over the ensuing decades they did various extensions [out & up], & various incidental maintenance stuff, all of which involved handling & cutting fibro. I often wonder if/how we avoided that landmine... ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

James Hardie, eh; how good! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ