What is the fraction of asbestos in "sand paint"?
If I had to guess by gut I would say one third because that is about what
they put in drywall mud, right? And that it was probably the same kind of
Vermont white asbestos as plaster. I know it isn't sand because in 1994 I
hit it with a hammer (I was hitting a nail on the wall and the hammer
scraped
the ceiling) and it was white dust. I know the new textures are like
chaulk
foam, so I gotta believe there was something other than just asbestos in
the
old "sand" paint. I remember like in 1975 when I read the contents of a
gallon of "sand paint" and I was surprised it said it had asbestos.
