Finding Asbestos – a guide to where it is located
Common materials that may contain asbestos
Asbestos can found in a many of the common materials used in the building trade.
Some of these materials should only be worked on by a licensed contractor and include:
- Loose asbestos in ceiling or floor cavity
- Lagging
- Sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls and beams/columns
- Asbestos insulating board
- Floortiles, textiles and composites
- Textured coatings
- Asbestos cement products
- Roofing felt
- Rope seals and gaskets
It hides in all sorts of places Internally in an Industrial building
- Sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls, beams and columns
- Asbestos cement water tank
- Loose fill insulation
- Lagging on boilers and pipes
- (Asbestos Insulating board) ceiling tiles
- Toilet seat and cistern
- (Asbestos Insulating board) partition walls
- (Asbestos Insulating board)panels in fire doors
- Asbestos rope seals, gaskets and paper
- Vinyl floor tiles
- (Asbestos Insulating board) around boilers
- Textiles eg fire blankets
- Textured decorating coatings on walls and ceilings eg artex
It is found externally in
- Asbestos cement roof
- Asbestos cement panels
- Asbestos cement gutters and downpipes
- Soffits – Asbestos Insulating Borad or asbestos cement
- Asbestos cement flue
Is is also present in
Residental buildings
Internally
- Asbestos cement Water tank
- Pipe lagging
- Loose fill insulation
- Textured decorative coating eg artex
- AIB ceiling tiles
- AIB bath panel
- Toilet seat and cistern
- AIB behind fuse box AIB airing cupboard and/or sprayed insulation coating boiler
- AIB partition wall
- AIB interior window panel
- AIB around boiler
- Vinyl floor tiles
- AIB behind fire
Externally
- Gutters andAsbestos cement downpipes
- Soffits – AIB or asbestos cement
- AIB exterior window panel
- Asbestos cement roof
- Asbestos cement panels
- Roofing felt
- Asbestos Insulating Board
AIB = Asbestos Insulating Board
