Q: The house we’re buying was built in 1974. Our home inspector did a thorough job, but he missed one thing. He never mentioned possible asbestos in the textured ceilings. Shouldn’t he have said ...

When we were kids, my brothers and I would play a game in which we jumped on our beds to see who could knock off the most plaster from the bedroom ceiling. Like many homes built more than 50 years ago ...

http://2cccd5dfe1965e26adf6-26c50ce30a6867b5a67335a93e186605.r53.cf1.rackcdn.com/asbestos_feature_eprfinal.mp3 These days "asbestos" is a dirty word, but there was a ...

Every school in York County except the recently built Coventry Elementary School contains asbestos, according to a new asbestos management plan done for the school system. The new plan identifies ...

Hundreds of students at two county schools will be transferred next week because a ceiling containing carcinogenic asbestos was found crumbling at Magruder Elementary, school officials said Wednesday.

Last week’s torrential rains and gusty winds that soaked students and flooded several buildings around campus hit home for three 575 Commonwealth Ave. residents and sent others worried Thursday night ...

It wasn’t easy to decide how to remove our kitchen floor, aging sheet vinyl with a gray backing that turned out to be 40 percent asbestos. We needed to take it out as part of a remodeling project. The ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Two Philadelphia schools will be closed on reports of asbestos found. Two buildings, Mitchell Elementary School in Southwest Philadelphia and Frankford High School are both ...

The first floor reference room at the Glencoe Public Library has been temporarily closed as crews remove asbestos-tainted plaster, library officials say. The Forte Reference Room was closed May 10 ...