Marcel: Talk to a retrofit blown insulation company. They’ll show you how to easily remove the asbestos shingleswithout breaking them…we had to do it all the time. The little side insulation job I just dropped my equipment off at today (for the weekend) has these shingles.
We use a good nipper pliars, grind/thin down the face edge and then file a small hole in the face edge. This allows you to grab behind the small nail head and pull the shingle nail out. If you need to use the face of the pliars as a fulcrum to gain leverage on the shingle head, use a small Richard scraper bar to distribute the force or you’ll break the shingle edge or corner.
As I said, see a good insulator and they’ll show you how. And they may have a few shingles stored away…they always need a few spares to replace the ones they broke… they don’t make’em anymore. We used to talk with siders who were stripping them to install vinyl and usually got them for 0.
Isn’t any wood based product a potential fire hazard unless treated with fire retardents…wood roof shakes, trusses, rafters, studs, wood I joists, Masonite, wood clapboard, etc… And especially those containing oil based products…foam insulating boards, tarpaper, asphalt based shingles, kraft paper backed insulation, foam pads and plastic carpets, vinyl flooring, foam cushions, your shoe soles…it could go on and on!!!
Sorry Brian; I can see how this could have been conceived as being a question from me and it was not, it was a picture of someone’s quote in a forum.
I used to install some of these asbestos siding shingles with my Father when I was a kid. And they were removed and replaced often. A hardware store across from my house always stocked up on as much as he could and also provide the cutter and punch tool with it for free. No rental fee if you bought the product from him.
Since we did not have the tools to create dust, the stuff was harmless.
