Is this what I think it is?

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>>1036367

doesnt look like asbestos

>>1036367
>>1036368
Looks like rockwool to me. Home build in the 1960s? My old place was full of the stuff. Why they use brown as a color I have now clue. Its like 60% fiberglass and 40% wool. See if you can find a full bat of the stuff that still has the paper on it. It generally tells you what it is and what materials its made out of.

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>>1036372
Good call, bud. Had me worrying, I've been cleaning out that room for a few days before I noticed it. House was built in the fifties, but this was probably out in in the sixties. Thanks for the tip

>>1036367
How can you even confuse this with asbestos?

>>1036389
If it's fibreglass you should drill be wearing a expensive mask, dummy

>>1036372
Rockwool is made from molten rock, centrifuged into thin glasslike fibres, used in same way as glass fiber. Its not the same as fibreglass, and doesn't contain wool, but it serves the same purpose.

>tmyk

>>1036414
Having never been around or having seen asbestos before, I saw matted insulation that had fallen onto surrounding furniture. It had thin hairs poking of the main mass of it. Better safe than sorry.
>>1036415
Here's your (you).
I've been wearing n100s cleaning out, and have a dual cartridge respirator for when I tear into the ceiling and this insulation.

>>1036467
>Having never been around or having seen asbestos before
haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
no, that shit is everywhere and in everything for the past 100 years.

fact: if you were born after 1890, you have been exposed. no exceptions.

>>1036516
You dont really see it in first world countries anymore.

>>1036529
That is an absolute bullshit statement

>>1036529
Yeah my place came with a lovely prefabricated asbestos cement garage built in the 1970's. The house is from 1880's.

>>1036529
not in new construction.
if you ever work in an older building, make sure you know what you're getting into.
your employer isn't always going to tell you when there's asbestos, even if they know.

>>1036530
Oh, did you wrongly assume the US was on that list?

>>1036568
No I'm from the UK, but have also worked (in asbestos surveying) in other first worlds countries and visited other first world countries and seen shit tons of it everywhere I go.

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>>1036418
I'm not talking about mineral wool. Its probably just one of those regional names thing. Like sheetrock/drywall/gypsum board, all being lumped together as the same thing. When we did some work on our house we had brown insulation in the walls. It was sandwiched between sheets of thick paper. On the paper it said "Rockwool", as in the company, and that it was 60% fiberglass and 40% sheep's wool. This was an old PG&E Electric Medallion home, so it had all sorts of weird shit in it.

>>1036643
How strange. Even the company says it specializes in 'stone wool' now

>>1036643
>>1036652
*shrug*
I suppose it changed after energy got cheaper and wool got less viable. Wool is also flammable unless you treat it to hell and back, so I guess "stone wool" is simply more practical.

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How 'bout this?

>>1036367
is that a run over cat?

>>1036367
it's normal insulation.

>>1037361
enjoy your cancer