Oh I see. I have not idea actually - I will take a look later. Would this solve the need for house wrap then?

The problem with old tar paper is that lately it has found in a few cases to be containing asbestos and that opens up a whole new can of worms if you are having contractors do the job

We have already had an asbestos trauma at the house so one more will probably throw me over the edge

What problem did you have ? If you dont mind me asking - I'm thick skinned so you can feel free to tell me to bugger off

Well...take a seat..lol

Our house flooded from the roof down.

During the complete strip out, they noticed some of the old tiles on the floor in the bedrooms were 9 by 9's. Apparantly this is a red flag that they were probably made with asbestos. So all worked halted.

The tests came back that no, it wasn't the floor tiles. Next they thought it was the paint - no not that either. Next the plaster on the drywall. Nope not that either.

I finally worked it out for them - - it was the underlay on the super old carpet that we had taken up the year before.

C) burn house, collect insurance, build new.

lol sadly we are currently collecting insurance for the flooding.

then half the paper work is ready

last year when we did our roof/windows, we found so much rot underneath that we had to take off our cedar siding, and replace with vinyl. I wasn't happy, but it was all we could do/afford at the time, although we did go for the best quality vinyl in a nice colour.

Now, I'm actually happy with the decision. From a distance it looks just like wood, it's only up close you can tell its vinyl. The lack of maintenance is a huge plus as well. If you want i can send you some before/after photos just to let you see the difference.

Did you use one of those disaster restoration specialists companies ?? They just love to find some hazardous materials on the house so they can basically then just decide to charge whatever price they want regardless of the original quote - Usually they will wheedle in a 3rd party consultant (99% of the time employed by them - so the results might not be what you want to hear) to do an assesement then start quoting the OH & S rules for the province .

They are a specialist company however they do not appear to have 2 brain cells to spare between all of them so, even though they do appear to be super sneaky, they did not dream up the above scenario! Thankfully the insurance are paying for it anyway. I just wish they would hurry up and put my house back together.

Did they end up treating it as a hazardous materials job then ?

was it the ones with the initials PV or SC

No! As the underlay had long gone they just ignored it..

Neither - they have the initials PDS..lol