We had asbestos abatement for linoleum by a licenced company and for the most part it all went well. I am just a bit paranoid about some of the things that I observed that I thought were not up to code.

The crew came in, set plastic on our carpet leading to our bathroom and set plastic containment in the doorway of the bathroom. The containment felt like a double plastic that they described as a heart valve.

They lifted part of the plastic up to push in the negative air pressure machine that had a clear soft plastic exhaust out of the window. Then they put it out of the window and let it vent about 2 feet from the window. When they turned the negative air pressure machine on, the plastic inflated, which it told me that air was blowing outdoors.

They put rags in the floor house vent and toilet drain. The bathtub was not taped off but linoleum did not run under it.

One person worked inside the contained area but I could not tell if he was wearing tyvek suits but was wearing a half-face mask. The other person stood outside and received the double bagged plastic bags. Then, he picked them up and took them outside. Air was tested during and then after.

I could hear hammering and then vaccuming at the end as well as the smell of what we were told was emulsifier.

When they finished, we had to wait for the air test for 2 days and we entered the sealed area. We had to dump the rags in the drain and vent ourselves. I was wearing a P100 mask when I did that and kept the room sealed and run the bath exhaust to creative a negative air pressure. Also, after the job was done, we did not sleep in the house for 24 hours and had all windows vent the air out. The next day my wife decided to vaccum (probably not wise) the carpets and again we had all windows out. But those carpets should not have been contaminated if the containment worked.

I have a few things that I just don't know how paranoid I should be about given that I know some people just take linoleum out on their own and they are fine.

- Should they have had a decontamination area or is it that for really small bathrooms, if it is impossible to setup one you don't have to.

- How worried should I be about the contamination of the rest of our house by the person that did the demo and then walked out or the person moving the bags out of the house. I couldn't tell if tyvek was used for the person inside.

- What about rags that we had to dump ourselves?