Where Asbestos Can Be Found In The Home & Workplace

Asbestos can be found in any industrial or residential building built or refurbished before the year 2000. It is in many of the common materials used in the building trade that you may come across during your work. Please see both commercial and domestic illustrations below:

INDUSTRIAL AND WORKPLACE

Inside

1. Sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls, beams and columns
2. Asbestos cement water tank
3. Loose fill insulation
4. Lagging on boilers and pipes
5. AIB ceiling tiles
6. Toilet seat and cistern
7. AIB partition walls
8. AIB panels in fire doors
9. Asbestos rope seals, gaskets and paper
10. Vinyl floor tiles
11. AIB around boilers
12. Textiles eg fire blankets
13. Textured decorating coatings on walls and ceilings eg artex

Outside

14. Asbestos cement roof
15. Asbestos cement panels
16. Asbestos cement gutters and downpipes
17. Soffits – AIB or asbestos cement
18. Asbestos cement flue

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DOMESTIC

Inside

1. Asbestos cement Water tank
2. Pipe lagging
3. Loose fill insulation
4. Textured decorative coating eg artex
5. AIB ceiling tiles
6. AIB bath panel
7. Toilet seat and cistern
8. AIB behind fuse box
9. AIB airing cupboard and/or sprayed insulation coating boiler
10. AIB partition wall
11. AIB interior window panel
12. AIB around boiler
13. Vinyl floor tiles
14. AIB behind fire

Outside

15. Gutters and Asbestos cement downpipes
16. Soffits – AIB or asbestos cement
17. AIB exterior window panel
18. Asbestos cement roof
19. Asbestos cement panels
20. Roofing felt

*AIB = Asbestos Insulating Board