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Patching a hole in the ceiling floor
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Working on the never-ending basement brewery and we have this: old piping installation holes, leading into the kitchen above.
That grey subfloor is asbestos hardiboard. We are going to eventually redo the kitchen - just not this year (priorities, man!) what would be the best way to cover this from the basement side? gut says just gluepaint to encapsulate and a piece of ply to hide the holes, sound idea?
Edit: ok cos there seems to be repeated confusion: These are holes in the CEILING of a basement brewery leading to the asbestos floored kitchen ABOVE.
Your original solution of some glue and a piece of plywood seems like a fine solution, and honestly overkill imo. I'm open to being told I'm wrong, but the impression I get is that asbestos is completely safe as long as you don't fuck with it. It becomes a problem when you start ripping it out and the particles start floating around in the air. And I've never heard of anyone getting cancer from eating asbestos - just lung cancer from breathing it. If you are worried about it getting in the beer, you should be more worried about breathing it while you are down there.
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