Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Best way though and you will be surprised how many you can take out with a pair of molegrips, in a short time
Removing nails from asbestos roof
- Thread starter Banana Bar
- Start date
- Location
- East Sussex
I wouldn't really want to be snipping nails from underneathe azzy without the full protective clothing and respirator thing myself. That's even if you've sprayed it with pva as a sealer. Not too bad if you hit it with the pressure washer to make sure all the dry overlaps won't produce any dust.
Get some crawling boards and do it from the top, you could hit them with the gas axe?
Get some crawling boards and do it from the top, you could hit them with the gas axe?
- Location
- South wales
Gas ax is a bad Idea I've tried it the sheets pop and red hot chunks of asbestos fly off it fooking hurts 
Cowcalf
Member
- Location
- North of Scotland
Using cutting torch would produce more dust than manual cutting, but vise grips quickest and timbers are clean, if you start at the top and put the hook of ratchet strap into top they are easy enough to slide down the roof
- Location
- East Sussex
Gas ax is a bad Idea I've tried it the sheets pop and red hot chunks of asbestos fly off it fooking hurts
Thought the 'nails' had a plastic spacer/seal under them. Should give loads of room for the use of a gas axe with the correct sized nozzle on it and not blow the asb. Angle the cutting head up away from the sheet and should be fine.
- Location
- South wales
Maybe! just speaking from experience it doesn't take much heat to make it pop as you say may work with a different nozzle
Gas axe
Derky
Member
- Location
- Bucks/oxon
When we dismantle buildings, generally we use a cherry picker from underneath with bolt croppers. But at times we have used crawling boards and had the tops off with the stihl saw. You can do everything from a cherry picker if you know what you are doing.
