But even if the insulation contains asbestos, you needn't worry. It won't be harmful so long as it stays in the wall. Large nail holes are not enough to create a hazard.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it will immediately remove asbestos-contaminated insulation from the attics and walls of hundreds of homes in the tiny northwestern ...

The basement walls are uninsulated 8-inch cinder block with roughly 3 ½ feet above ground on two and a half sides. The basement ceiling joists/footer edges have 6 inches of closed-cell insulation.

A $12 million price tag for asbestos removal from a single south suburban high school has one district wondering how it can afford to do what the government says it must.A preliminary consultant`s ...

Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late ...

New data has revealed that millions of UK driveways may still contain asbestos - a natural mineral that can lead to serve ...

BOLTON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / July 22, 2025 / Asbestos remains a major public health risk still lingering above millions of driveways across Britain, according to new data. According to figures ...

Question — We have an early 1960s bungalow that was moved to our farm near Winnipeg in 1991. At the time, it had only three inches of insulation between the attic rafters, so we had a local comp ...

Papers from the late 1950s show Cape encouraging its American partner Johns-Manville not to put warning labels on asbestos-based insulation boards in case this damaged profitability. ‘A caution label ...

Hundreds of years before asbestos became ubiquitous in the construction industry, Byzantine monks used the fibrous material in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings during the late ...