Where is asbestos found in buildings?

You are most likely to come across asbestos in these materials:

  • Sprayed asbestos and asbestos loose packing - generally used as fire breaks in ceiling voids.
  • Moulded or preformed sprayed coatings and lagging - generally used in thermal insulation of pipes and boilers.
  • Sprayed asbestos mixed with hydrated asbestos cement - generally used as fire protection in ducts, fire breaks, panels, partitions, soffit boards, ceiling panels and around structural steel work. Insulation boards - generally used for fire protection, thermal insulation, partitioning and ducts.
  • Some ceiling tiles.
  • Millboard, paper and paper products used for insulation of electrical equipment, asbestos paper has been used as a fire proof facing on wood fibreboard.
  • Asbestos cement products which can be compressed into flatter corrugated sheets.
  • Corrugated sheets are largely used as roofing and wall cladding. Other asbestos cement products include gutters, rain water pipes and water tanks.
  • Certain textured coatings.
  • Floorings - thermal plastic floor tiles, PVC vinyl tiles and unback PVC flooring and asbestos paper backed PVC floors.
  • Asbestos bitumen products - bitumen roofing felt and damp proof coursing, semi rigid asbestos bitumen roofing, gutter linings and asbestos bitumen coatings on metals.
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