long day

[low_delta]

They're taking my dumpster away tomorrow, so I took the day off to get all the remaining trash and debris out of the apartment. I did it too. (Okay, almost.)

I intended to get up there and start working by ten o'clock, but about that time I realized I'd promised my tax information to my accountant (stepmother) by last week, and since she's doing my taxes for free I don't want to piss her off, so I took an hour to dig all that stuff up. So eleven o'clock, it was.

I worked until 5:00 taking the ceilings down. Man, that was awful. Vermiculite insulation. You pull a board down and it just streams out, and the dirt and dust flies. It irritated my eyes so bad. They're still red. Cyn came up, so after supper we went to Home Depot to pick up my windows. Then we went upstairs to work. Cyn pulled up most of the carpet. I continued with the ceiling and walls in the hallway. We both made lots more trips downstairs to the dumpster. She left before 9:00, but I didn't finish until ten to twelve.

The only thing I didn't get done was pull the masonite "paneling" out of the stairway. That's the only remaining thing that would be hard to get rid of with my regular curbside pickup.

Now I have to get up in six hours.

Comments

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

I'm not really an asbestos expert, but there are low levels of asbestos in vermiculite from Libby, MT. You could send some to a testing lab to know for sure, but it might be near the limit of detection. If the levels are over 1% by weight, EPA says you need to use special precautions to prevent exposure to the environment. OSHA says you need to handle it accoding to special precautions above 0.1% asbestos (most analytical methods can only see down to 1%). There's some kind of homeowner exemption for working around asbestos-containing material, but as a landlord, the exemptions may not hold. The bottom line is you can't breathe any fibers (if there are any) and you need disposable coveralls so you don't contaminate your street clothes. I can't give you risk levels.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks.