Silica dust can be produced when natural stone, bricks, tiles and concrete are cut, crushed, drilled, ground, sawed or polished. This unassuming dust can actually be extremely harmful if handled incorrectly.
It is crucial that if you need tile removal, whether that is a bathroom strip out or a pool tile removal, a professional tile removalist who understands how to mitigate the risk completes the service.
Silica dust is harmful when it becomes airborne and is inhaled into the lungs, and unfortunately, as silica sand is 100 times smaller than a grain of sand and invisible to the human eye, it can be easy to breathe it in without a person knowing it. Inhalation of silica dust can cause a range of possible health issues.
These potential health risks from silica dust inhalation are why, under the model Work Health and Safety Regulations, persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) are required to keep worker and customer exposure to silica dust as low as reasonably practicable.
Alongside mitigating health risks, dust-free tile removal also has a range of other advantages.
Safeguards your family: If tile removals are done properly, children and pets face lower health risks during and after the renovation process.
Keeps surfaces clean: Dust-free tile removal prevents dust from settling in hidden, sometimes hard to access places, such as airducts, kitchen cupboards and crevices of furniture.
Saves cleanup time: Using preventative measures to ensure tile removal is dust-free means you won’t be left with the exhaustive task of deep-cleaning your home or office.
At All Stripped, we take dust removal seriously, using all available prevention measures to ensure the safety of both our workers and our clients.
Prevention Equipment
Clean Up
Our team also clean up after each job so that you don’t have to. This involves properly disposing of all building rubble and dust bags collected throughout the tile removal process.
Do you have a building project or renovation planned that requires tile removal? Our team are highly skilled and has experience in removing all types of tiles, including ceramic, marble, glass, porcelain and natural stone.
We have operations in Queensland (Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast), Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia and will travel to other locations to complete work as required.
Contact All Stripped, the dust-free tile removal specialists, to discuss your project or to get a free estimate today!
Image: Bags of dust collected by the All Stripped team.
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