[quote=EconProf]The consensus here seems to be do-it-yourself or hire someone to scrape and dispose of it without following all the rules of the government and scaremongers. I agree, and have done it several times on rental properties. We all , need to properly evaluate true risk and probabilities in our decision-making and not be overly influenced by vivid, spectacular, but unlikely events. Don’t worry about the tiny amount of asbestoes in popcorn ceilings, or second-hand smoke, or throwing away flourescent bulbs, but do put on your seatbelt, eat sensibly, and don’t tailgate.[/quote]
Home Depot recycles compact fluorescent at return counter, but your main point taken.
It’s too bad MBS market ignored the so-called unlikely Black Swan events! It did seem unlikely for the guys sitting in front of their Bloomberg terminals since we didn’t have national home sales decline for 50+ years, but a weeks’ worth of paperwork review in the trenches would have easily uncovered that likelihood of problems was much greater than 1%.
[quote=enron_by_the_sea]Can someone educate me on why there is this drive to get popcorn ceilings removed? Why does everyone hate them? Aesthetics?[/quote]
Mostly just aesthetics. They are visually busy, where the eye wants to see the smoothness of sky, and they can’t be cleaned. If you bump or mar it, it dings easily and can’t be repaired, and crumbly white stuff falls to the floor and causes the dust mites living in the carpet to develop asbestosis.
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I never snort asbestos particles knowingly …[/quote]
When I removed an in-wall flue from my 1940’s era house, it was made of this funny gray fibrous stuff. Just to freak out my wife, I held it up to my face and inhaled deeply.
Then I chased her around the house with it, intoning “EEEEEVIL! EEEEEVIL!”
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