u/Wonderful_Isopod2301

Now that the good weather is coming i would like to explore the city (especially the hidden gems and random amazing streets and paths that are not much known but are surprisingly beautiful)

So if you have any suggestions of specific less known places to walk and explore please tell me:)

(I'm not so much sporty so not that good with hiking so prefer normal streets and alleys than hiking trails)

Also, I'd love to meet some new people who are a bit different that the circle around me (just to explore more)

So if you are also looking for walking buddy and might want to explore the city together maybe send me a pm and we see if we vibe?

Some weeks ago I spent around 3 days helping move/clean things in an old house that was under heavy construction/renovation. There was construction dust EVERYWHERE in huge amounts. Later I learned that about some months earlier someone unprofessional had removed asbestos from the house (not professionally), specifically around a chimney area (that is what he claims). The worker claimed it was only around a 40×20 cm piece and that he tried not to break it while taking from chimney, but he also mentioned there may have been asbestos downstairs too. And ZERO cleanup happened afterwards before the renovation started.

During the second day there were huge visible dust clouds exactly under the chimney area while he was throwing big piles of stuff under chimney and then sweeping them and I spent many hours there breathing all that dust with no mask and no ventilation. I even ate there etc.

At that time I had absolutely no idea about the asbestos history, so over those 3 days I brought a MASSIVE amount of things from the house into my apartment — probably 20+ bags/luggages worth. Clothes, coats, bed sheets, towels, tablecloths, curtains, textiles, decorative items, candles, wooden shelves/baskets, drawers/closets, kitchen utensils, and many other porous household things. Some items were inside closets in the house, some closer to the chimney, some farther away, but basically everything was dusty from the construction environment (and of course I moved them multiple time sthrough grounds and with my dusty hands)

Because I didn’t know about the asbestos issue, I handled everything normally. I put many of these things directly next to my own clothes and belongings in my apartment and closets. I also wore the clothes I used during those 3 days around my apartment normally (first night i even slepy with my duvet wihtout cover without showering)

Later I washed the clothes I wore there together with many of my own clean clothes in one overloaded washing machine load. Then I dried many of those clothes inside my small apartment directly in front of my AC/heating area where I sit/eat most of the day.

My washing machine was broken for part of this period too, so for WEEKS I kept moving bags and objects around repeatedly from one plastic bag/place to another while trying to figure out what to do. I also left many of the brought items on my floors, inside closets, on shelves etc. My apartment has old porous wooden flooring in some areas and I also brought many porous wooden objects/shelves/baskets into the apartment.

At this point I feel like I technically spread the dust everywhere in my apartment through handling, moving, washing, drying, and mixing everything together.

What made this way worse mentally is that I started reading websites and asking AI systems (ChatGPT/Grok/Gemini), and some of them are telling me extremely alarming things — basically that I may have created an ongoing secondary asbestos exposure situation in my home, that my washing machine may now be contaminated, that washing is not enough, that I may need professional asbestos cleaning/air sampling, and that I may even need to throw away many or all porous items/textiles because fibers can keep re-aerosolizing for years.

Other occupational health people I talked to were much less alarmed and basically said the original exposure may have been real but this still doesn’t sound comparable to chronic occupational exposure and that normal washing/cleaning removes most dust/fibers, but Grok keeps telling me if you washed with your new washing machine it will not get clean and only contaminate all your later clothes forever! he says I need to hore professional to handle the house now that I brought all thsoe stuff and for three weeks spread it al lover!

Honestly I no longer know what is proportionate or realistic anymore and the uncertainty itself is becoming overwhelming.

Does this realistically sound serious enough to require professional asbestos remediation/sampling of my apartment? Should I throw away the brought textiles and porous items or just wash/clean them normally and move on?
i am too anxious and freaked out and do not know what to do (I cna not even sleep well at nights thinking about this)
I REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE ANY PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERT
it will save my life!
more info: this was an very old house in Norway