I thought these were decent videos regarding operating a fume hood.  The quality of the video is not great, but the information provided is correct.

Interested to learn more about renovating the fume hoods in your laboratory?  A Longo Laboratory Consultant is available to advise you about your fume hoods and other lab equipment and the options available to you regarding lab design, purchasing new furniture, etc. 

Please direct all inquiries with regards to laboratory planning, furniture and construction projects to the marketing department at Longo (info@longoinc.com).  To request a consultant & laboratory space evaluation, email Anthony Stellatos (anthonys@longoinc.com). 

Longo offers laboratory planning, budget and full turnkey services to industrial/commercial clients and private schools in New Jersey (Bergen-Passaic-Essex-Hudson-Morris Counties), New York (Westchester-Rockland-Dutchess-Putnam-Orange Counties) and Connecticut (Fairfield County). Please contact us for your laboratory design and furniture requirements (info@longoinc.com).

Subject:  Asbestos flooring and fume hood liners used in school laboratories built in the 1950s & 1960s.

Nat Longo narrates regarding where asbestos can be found in a school laboratory constructed prior to 1980.   Laboratory safety upgrades are central to Longo’s laboratory planning philosophy.   We design and build science laboratory spaces that are both educationally correct and adhere to strict safety codes regarding air flow regulation and removal of pollutants, chemical storage requirements, and safety within in the lab.

If your lab space was constructed during the 1930s to 1970s, your laboratories’ fume hoods may contain asbestos materials. For the past 20 years, there has been steady progress made with respect to asbestos removal but fume hoods are often forgotten in this diligent effort. 

Fume hoods were lined with asbestos-containing materials up until the 1970s because of heat/fire resistant qualities. Now, most fume hoods are manufactured with a polyresin or a phenolic resin interior liner. In some cases, hoods are constructed out of stainless steel (radio isotope, perchloric), but the cost usually won’t justify the material’s usage in middle & high school science labs.

Longo can help!  To contact a fume hood specialist, please contact the Marketing Department at 800-635-6646, info@longoinc.com.

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