{"id":3435,"date":"2015-02-20T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2015-02-20T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:00:55","slug":"the-risks-and-opportunities-of-buying-a-property-with-asbestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/the-risks-and-opportunities-of-buying-a-property-with-asbestos\/","title":{"rendered":"The risks and opportunities of buying a property with asbestos"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nIn today’s show, our renovation expert\u00a0Cherie Barber<\/strong>\u00a0discusses the risks and opportunities of buying a property with asbestos.<\/p>\n

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Kevin<\/b>:\u00a0 It\u2019s time to say hello to the renovation queen and the person we turn to for any renovation advice, Cherie Barber.
\nHi, Cherie.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 Hi, Kevin.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 Great to be talking to you again. You\u2019ve just finished another project for The Living Room<\/i> on Channel 10, I believe.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 I have. I\u2019m officially covered in paint right now, so yes.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 Well, thank you for pulling up and having a chat to us. I was keen to talk to you because I\u2019ve had a few people comment to me about the fears they have about getting a property that has asbestos in it, especially first-time buyers, because they\u2019re afraid about the renovation requirements. Tell me what your experience is with this, Cherie.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 Wow. Where do I start? First of all, I\u2019m a national brand ambassador for asbestos awareness, so I am actually quite passionate about trying to educate as many home renovators about the perils of working with asbestos. The reality is that any house that was built prior to 1987 \u2013 let\u2019s face it, that\u2019s the bulk of housing across Australia \u2013 is very likely to contain asbestos in one way, shape, or form.
\nWhat the asbestos organizations are saying now is that the third wave of asbestos victims is coming, and that third waves of victims is actually called the home renovators. We have to try and get the message out as much as possible for people not to stop renovating \u2013 we don\u2019t want people to stop renovating \u2013 but we want them to just to be aware of the dangers of asbestos when renovating old homes.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 You can buy one as long as you don\u2019t disturb it. It\u2019s okay if you seal it up. Is that right?
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 Yes. Basically, asbestos, if you were to go and touch it, put your hand on it, you\u2019re not going to die. It\u2019s only when it\u2019s broken, when the fiber of asbestos is actually broken, scraped, drilled into \u2013 basically damaged or disturbed in any way.
\nWe don\u2019t exactly know whether it takes one fiber or more, but any of those airborne fibers that are inhaled can actually become mesothelioma in anywhere from 10 to 20 or 30 years\u2019 time.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 I was quite surprised recently \u2013 it would have been five or six years ago. We bought a property to renovate. We quite often think of asbestos being in walls, roofs and things like that, but we actually found, when we had an asbestos inspection done, that we had asbestos tiles that were down in the kitchen. I didn\u2019t know that they existed, Cherie.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 Yes, absolutely. That\u2019s a common mistake. There are a lot of renovators out there who have absolutely no idea. They\u2019re renovating amongst asbestos and don\u2019t know it. Most people think it\u2019s in the walls, or on the ceiling linings, or in the bathroom \u2013 that\u2019s one area where it typically tends to be. But it can be under carpet tiles, even in carpet underlay.
\nPeople knock out their walls and they see this white knitting around all of their hot water pipes: that\u2019s actually asbestos. I was talking to my dad about it just last week and she said, \u201cCherie, do you know that all the old rollaway sleepers are riddled with asbestos from the train brakes that are asbestos.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 Oh goodness.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 We\u2019re actually surrounded by it everywhere, so we just have to make sure we do it safely. My advice to people is don\u2019t remove it yourself; bring in the professionals. To me, no amount of profit is worth dying for.
\nUnfortunately, it\u2019s an issue close to my heart because my grandfather died of asbestosis ten years ago, and I was actually there on his last breath. I tell you, it\u2019s a very horrible disease to die of asbestos-related poisoning. We want less people to die from it.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 As you said earlier, you don\u2019t have to be afraid of it; just be aware of it. It shouldn\u2019t stop you from buying a property with asbestos, either, should it, Cherie?
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 Absolutely not. To be honest, I buy a lot of properties that are asbestos. I buy a lot of old fiber houses that I get in and cosmetically renovate. They tend to be houses that people run away from, because people freak out about asbestos. It\u2019s one of those big building, no-noes. It\u2019s up there with termites, concrete cancer, rising damp, and asbestos.
\nAt the end of the day, there is a solution to asbestos. The question you have to ask yourself is, \u201cOkay, I can buy a property with asbestos, but how much is it going to cost me to get the professionals in to actually remove it safely?\u201d so that you\u2019re not exposing yourself as a renovator, you\u2019re not exposing your tradespeople, you\u2019re not exposing your next door neighbors. Then negotiate the cost of that removal off the purchase price.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 Indeed.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 That\u2019s how I typically look at it.
\nKevin<\/b>:\u00a0 That\u2019s right. As we say, there are opportunities; you shouldn\u2019t run away from them.
\nCherie, we\u2019re out of time unfortunately, but thank you so much and all the best. Look forward to seeing you on Channel 10\u2019s The Living Room<\/i> soon. If you want to contact Cherie, you can do it through her website, RenovatingForProfit.com.au.
\nCherie, thank you so much for your time.
\nCherie<\/b>:\u00a0 You\u2019re welcome. Thank you.
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