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After I got on full time with a maintenance crew we also did asbestos abatement and insulation / metal work.

After building the scaffolding we'd wrap the entire thing in several layers of plastic sheeting, spray glueing and duct taping as we went. After it was all closed in we attached giant air movers with HEPA filters in them to the ground floor (blowing out) to keep negative pressure on the whole structure.

The refineries wouldn't shut the machines off until the very last minute, which was after the asbestos was removed. So we worked all day in respirators, rubber boots and doubled up Tyvek suits. When we stopped for a break we would pour the sweat out of our boots like we'd been standing in the rain.

The reinforced plastic we used melted at 325*. One of the plastic walls was about two feet from the end of a tank we were stripping and kept melting so fast that we had to station one guy at the wall to just keep replacing that piece of plastic every few minutes. It was literally like working in an oven and they'd sometimes have to rotate us out of the structure every twenty minutes or so.