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Loose fill attic insulation with air duct - Feel free to use this photo for your website or blog as long as you include photo credit with a clickable (hyperlinked) and do-follow link to
Seating, insulation, & controls don't come standard. Inside the fuselage of an old Piper aircraft. Taken in my college town of Lock Haven, PA. See the set for more information.
See what isn't in this plane...
Deep blue-gelled Vivitar 2800 strobe and natural xenon flashlight in the cockpit. Full moon and loads of mercury vapor lighting nearby.
Asbestos-containing duct insulation depicted as a light grey, thick paper applied onto a metal HVAC duct boot in a residential basement setting.
The friable ACM paper product is quite susceptible to damage, in this case shown partially impacted and stained by apparent moisture damage.
Since the house was already gutted back to the bare studs, it was the perfect opportunity to re-insulate with modern insulation.
bats of insulation sit patiently waiting to be installed in newly built walls... -- East Lansing, MI
Panels are cut to size.
2 long walls = 14" X 36.5"
2 short walls = 11.5" X 13.5"
bottom: 11.5" X 32"
top: 17" X 36"
I decided to insulate my vermiculite-ridden attic myself. So on went the party clothes and respirator.
The men came crawling out of the woodwork.
I'm so hot.
Example of layered asbestos insulation on a large, elevated water tank, approx. 20ft-length x 6ft-diameter. The tank has been abandoned and out-of-service for many years resulting in improper maintenance and subsequent deterioration of the friable asbestos insulation materials.
The inset image shows a visible area of the corroded tank surface and components of the outer asbestos insulation which is comprised of two layers of thick-gauge corrugated paper sheets with a layer of troweled-on asbestos "mud" and a canvas covering.
Specialty Insulation Manufacturing operated in a couple locations in Hoosick Falls from 1909 until 1987. They made plastic parts for the automotive industry. At least one other company operated in the building after that but the building has been abandoned since 2008.
"Post-abatement" (in quotes) inspection reveals an entire section of asbestos insulation left in place, within the regulated work area. Visual review of the work area fails inspection standard and requires additional abatement actions.
Quite simply, a good flashlight greatly assists the work area inspection process, particularly in locations where asbestos abatement workers may not have adequate lighting.
Another version of H.W. Johns' antique illustration of asbestos insulation being applied onto boiler and pipe. This version shows additional illustration toward the right portion of the frame (rolled aircell, etc.), but less detail on the left side (missing ladder worker, etc.). This illustration is from a different H.W. Johns asbestos catalog and is undated, but the cover indicates references to awards won by H.W. Johns from 1876 and 1884.
Early advertisements for asbestos insulations usually described the benefits of using asbestos materials in terms of protecting operators and workers from very hot surfaces around boilers and associated mechanical piping. Later, it was discovered that less fuel consumption was being realized where the insulated machinery was in service, subsequently asbestos was found to be a very economical and efficient insulation at that time.
Angled-view of fibrous asbestos magnesia pipe insulation shown with a 1-inch scale cube. The small section is actually two molded halves wrapped together in thin canvas. Magnesia insulation was designed for and typically used on high-temperature heating systems, such as for steam pipes. This particular mag sample contains both chrysotile and crocidolite asbestos fibers.
Closer view inside a residential attic space depicting bits of granular, flaky, accordian-like vermiculite insulation.
The US-EPA recommends home owners and house occupants to assume vermiculite attic insulation as asbestos-contaminated and to avoid disturbing the material; incredibly important advice which can't be emphasized enough!