Where can I find some quality asbestos insulation?

Asbestos products are banned in the U. S.

I bet you can’t get it.

I really don’t know, but I think you can not.

Sort of like you can’t opt out of Social Security.

In the lungs of dead firefighters.

@Blondesjon it is not all hype or even mostly hype. Mesothelioma is a very painful way to die.

Their is a town called Asbestos in ,Quebec Canada, they sell asbestos as a major industry of the town
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos,_Quebec

I would try to find another way to insulate even if it might involve some re -engineering of a structure to make safer alternatives more effective.

Don’t quote me on this, but I believe Robert Mugabe fashions condoms outta the stuff.
He stole the method from the late Kim Jong il, his fellow mad bastard.

I work for asbestos attorneys. It is indeed horrible for your lungs if inhaled. I doubt any manufacturer would dare to make or distribute it.

I’ve got a dead uncle that says it’s not all hype.

It’s not hype. The stuff is dangerous if you inhale a lot of it over a lifetime. Technically, since you’re just the guy who owns the house, you could evacuate your family, hire some people you REALLY dislike to install it, wait a nice long period of time for all that lethal dust to settle, and then move your family back in.

The person most at risk in this scenario is the installer. This is why old buildings which still contain asbestos are better off left intact, rather than having the stuff removed. The removal process would cause the risk. You know… unless you live in an area where there are a lot of earthquakes or something.

@glacial . . . Look at it this way. It takes a couple of decades to develop asbestos related mesothelioma. By the time any of us get it, I’m sure there will be a cure.

it’s kind of a win/win

@Blondesjon Well, sure. And if you’re really lucky, you might get hit by a bus first!

You might be able to buy some asbestos from China. You would likely have smuggle it into the U.S.A. though. If you get caught just play the dumb card.

Removed by me.

It’s not hype. Our friend’s sister died from mesothelioma at age 37. The doctors figured she either ingested it or inhaled it when she was a kid.

It is a shameful Canadian export.

@tranquilsea in the 80’s I used to play hide and seek with the truant officers in the attic and there was fibrous grey material that was hard to breathe in…Could that be Asbestos, or is it something else, it was like gray heavy dryer lint. I don’t want mesothelioma.

its like asking “where can I find some quality uranium’’

Maybe you can take some from a really old building.

When I worked for a plumbing/electrical contractor in my early twenties I worked in many very old homes which used asbestos insulation. God knows how many pipes I’d cut apart with the asbestos on them, or how much of the dust I must have breathed in, though I wore a dust mask many times. When I would watch people dressed in full body protection gear removing asbestos from a building, I asked my boss why we wern’t protected, and he would usually just brush it off by saying it takes many years of breathing the stuff in to affect you. I guess he was either a lying sack of shit, or ignorant.

What’s scary is that it may take as long as thirty to forty years for the stuff to start affecting you. Asbestos doesn’t appear to be literally toxic (from what I’ve been able to find), but it’s the super small fibres that are so dangerous. This is rather short, but detailed article concerning asbestos, what it really is, why it’s so dangerous and what it can do to you when breathed in. Unless you want to risk your own health by stealing it from an older abandoned building, I don’t believe you can legally purchase asbestos insulation anymore. My house is very old, so I already have asbestos insulation in my basement, and some of my siding are made of asbestos tiles.