sinnisterish wrote:Thanks for the advice everyone. Another question, don't you need to be exposed for a few years to develop a sickness.
Not at all - though it can take more than 30 years to develop any obvious symptoms.
It only takes a single fibre to be inhaled and embed itself in your lung tissue.
This can happen the first time you are exposed.
Your body does a good job at protecting your lungs (fibres are caught in nose hairs, mucous etc.) before inhalation, so you would be unlucky to contract abestosis, lung cancer or mesothelioma after 1 exposure - but it is certainly possible.