{"id":339,"date":"2023-08-04T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/08\/home-maintenance-myth-11-asbestos-must-be-removed\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:05:49","slug":"home-maintenance-myth-11-asbestos-must-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/08\/home-maintenance-myth-11-asbestos-must-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Maintenance Myth # 11 &#8211; Asbestos Must Be Removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/10.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"415\" data-original-width=\"415\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/10.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: medium\"><b>Asbestos In Your Home Must Be Removed<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Asbestos was widely used in building materials until it was banned in 1978. If you do have asbestos in your home, you may not have to remove it. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asbestos only poses a health risk when the material is friable (crumbled or pulverized) and fibers can be released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8220;If building materials in your home aren&#8217;t damaged and won&#8217;t be disturbed, you do not need to have your home tested for asbestos,&#8221; the EPA says. &#8220;Material that is in good condition and will not be disturbed (by remodeling, for example) should be left alone.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Asbestos In Your Home Must Be Removed Asbestos was widely used in building materials until it was banned in 1978. If you do have asbestos in your home, you may not have to remove it. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asbestos only poses a health risk when the material is friable (crumbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}