We removed tile from a house built in 1980 without testing for asbestos. How dumb were we?
I'm looking back on this now and really, it's largely a moot point (unless I should go for certain health screenings or something in the decades to come?)
But this came up as a topic recently and I'm curious...
How badly did my husband and I possibly f*ck up?
When we bought our townhouse 8 years ago it had Saltillo Mexican tile throughout some of it. The townhouse itself was built in 1980 in Florida and the tile was really dated looking, so we wanted to change it.
But also, we were poor then and had scraped pennies just to buy the place, so we decided to jackhammer it up ourselves.
We wore respirators because it was obviously very dusty, but I don't recall if we wore them 100% of the time.
We didn't test the thinset for asbestos.
How dumb were we?
*The photos above are the best I have from this job.