Does it smell a bit like tar, but sort of dusty? I was in some old buildings in strong sunlight and I never knew if what I was smelling was the tar-infused wood (ok) or the asbestos cement roof (!!)
Well, it was over 30 years ago, but what it smelt like to me was dust, like an old shed or basement, and hot metal, like one of those engineering workshops where they use machines to cut and shape metal.
We had to wear sealed suits and air filters to run new cables into a section of a telephone exchange that had asbestos sludge/paste sprayed on the walls as fire retardant, spent a week or so working in the asbestos area.
Musty/dusty with a faint metallic aftertaste.
Does it smell a bit like tar, but sort of dusty? I was in some old buildings in strong sunlight and I never knew if what I was smelling was the tar-infused wood (ok) or the asbestos cement roof (!!)
Well, it was over 30 years ago, but what it smelt like to me was dust, like an old shed or basement, and hot metal, like one of those engineering workshops where they use machines to cut and shape metal.
We had to wear sealed suits and air filters to run new cables into a section of a telephone exchange that had asbestos sludge/paste sprayed on the walls as fire retardant, spent a week or so working in the asbestos area.