[Vicegrip]

Originally Posted by BlackTalon

Anything short of a properly fitted respirator with a HEPA filter is fake safety if there trtuely is airborn friable asbestos... Use removal methods that keep the asbestos boud in the matrix. This is very routine. "It's asbestos for dog's sake..." is simply alarmist.

This. It is not plutonium. I use a garden sprayer to wet the work area and then run a sharp edged long handle tool under them to remove. Don't make the dust in the first place by working it wet. Mop/wetvac things up and your rock wool goes down the drain not all over your house. Black mastic often called cutback does have some fibers in it but very little and there are solvents that can be mopped down to soften it. There are also tile mastics that say they can be troweled over old cutback. I have installed tile over old cutback and also did the full removal thing. Both worked. YMMV.


People get sick from asbestos after long term extensive exposure not a little bit here and there.


Besides I learned from the whole foods/mother earth gang that It can't be bad for you if it is an all natural product.