Difficult to say, you need to find out what type of asbestos is involved, whether the work is licensable and is being removed under controlled conditions by the contractor.
It only takes one strand!
Urban Myth, I have been working with asbestos surveys, management and removal for over 30 years. The THEORETICAL ability of a single fibre to start carcinogenesis is based upon in vitro studies.
In actual fact you have to have significant exposure for this to happen (which means inhalation of hundreds of thousand or even millions of respirable sized fibres).
Also very unlikely that your Neighbours Roof is anything except Asbestos Cement (AC) which usually only contains Chrysotile (White) Asbestos, by far the least harmful form and is 85-90% Portland cement with 10-15% asbestos filler.
Having done a lot of air sampling around AC removal projects the levels of fibre release were normally undetectable, especially when the work was in the open air such as roof removal.
PM me if you want any more information.
That's good to know as a few years ago I drilled a couple of holes in an asbestos soffit.
Urban Myth, I have been working with asbestos surveys, management and removal for over 30 years. The THEORETICAL ability of a single fibre to start carcinogenesis is based upon in vitro studies.
In actual fact you have to have significant exposure for this to happen (which means inhalation of hundreds of thousand or even millions of respirable sized fibres).
Also very unlikely that your Neighbours Roof is anything except Asbestos Cement (AC) which usually only contains Chrysotile (White) Asbestos, by far the least harmful form and is 85-90% Portland cement with 10-15% asbestos filler.
Having done a lot of air sampling around AC removal projects the levels of fibre release were normally undetectable, especially when the work was in the open air such as roof removal.
PM me if you want any more information.
Cheeky side question please?
When I bought a place 18 months ago, the surveyor said that I have tiles on my sitting room floor (under the carpet) that "probably contain asbestos". I'm about to put new underlay and carpet in that room. Ok to strip the existing stuff out and just put new underlay and carpet on top, or should I have an asbestos survey (and possible/probable? removal of tiles) first?