Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Asbestos delay

We discovered asbestos pipe wrap in the basement (corrugated paper stuff under fiberglass), which needs to be removed before demolition. It's a small job (1/2 day), but there's a mandatory 10-day waiting period before it can be done. That will delay our demolition until at least Dec 20.

No idea what the motivation is for that notification period. Most other states waive the requirement for residential projects, so it was probably intended for large-scale industrial asbestos clean-up. You would think the policy objective would be to make proper asbestos cleanup as easy and inexpensive as possible.