So firstly I'd like to offer a little rest in peace to Wacky Clock who departed this earth a week ago at the Mugga Lane tip.
In a fit of rage at having tripped over it a number of times and just generally being sick of all the stuff in the apartment, it went to the tip along with a table, 6 chairs, the curtains, the blinds, two mattresses and other bits and pieces including - the evil pelmet of death - a 2.5m long, 10cm wide piece of wood that you can see in earlier pictures above the windows, which spontaneously detached from the window in one of the bedrooms and knocked me out with a large whack to the head.
After a brief stay of three hours in a bed at Calvary Emergency Department, 'because i was a-talkin funny and laughing at everything the doctor said' I came upon the following wisdon:
Everything in Your Renovation is Dangerous.
Case in point - my earlier concern regarding asbestos in the Vermiculite ceiling, which fortunately tested negative, has re-emerged following media reports in the last week that pre 1970's carpet underlay may have been made from recycled hessian bags, formerly used to transport asbestos by James Hardie.
I ripped up the carpet, and got covered in dust....With any luck there might still be a piece of this stuff somewhere in the apartment I can take to the ACT Health Lab to get tested.
As I discovered the first time around neither your building inspection that you pay for, nor your conveyancing solicitor, nor the state health authority who signs the asbestos certificate that comes standard with your contract in the ACT will say a peep about potential Asbestos dangers.
So for future reference, if you are renovating or planning to, treat every surface, every material and every task as if it were f#@ing toxic.
I will update the blog with the results if I can find a piece of the underlay and get it tested...
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