Q: We bought our house about eight months ago and just learned that we have asbestos insulation on the air ducts in our attic. The sellers must have known about it because they purchased a new forced ...

If a grayish, pebble-like substance lurks silently in the attic of an older home, ignorance on the part of the owner will not work out to be bliss. In some homes built between 1919 and 1990, ...

It wasn’t easy to decide how to remove our kitchen floor, aging sheet vinyl with a gray backing that turned out to be 40 percent asbestos. We needed to take it out as part of a remodeling project. The ...

The typical cost of attic insulation is between $1,500 and $3,500, with a national average of $2,500. Cost factors for attic insulation installation include attic size, insulation type, insulation ...

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BOSTON -- W.R. Grace and Co. knowingly sold attic insulation that contained asbestos for more than 20 years and never alerted the public, fearing that a warning label might hurt sales, according to a ...

Q: The home inspector who checked my house reported that the attic insulation is about 6 inches thick, but he didn't say whether it's made of fiberglass, asbestos or cellulite. I am concerned about ...

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 company ...

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