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Who is responsible for finding out if asbestos is present, a contractor of a project or a home owner?
My construction project was halted by the NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection after a neighbor complained about asbestos present. The contractor did not realize that asbestos was present and neither did the architect, who at one point certified that asbestos was absent. I as a homeowner did not know that asbestos was present and trusted the contractor or the architect to find out if the substance was present. Is the contractor responsible? He is the one who haphazardly modified the Asbestos Insulation of the house and did not even realize The Asbestos was what it was. The project was ordered to be suspended by the NYC DEP and delayed the remodeling for a couple of weeks and costed me about $10,000 (including filing fees).
Unfortunately, for you, you own the property so clean up is your responsibility.
If the architect or contractor had found asbestos at the start, you would have had to pay for the removal.
From your description, their errors did not cost you anything beyond the cost of the removal.
Don’t you just hate it when you get hit in the pocketbook really hard?
338 22nd St., Bklyn NY–Illegal Work Part 3
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