Because fiber cement siding manufactured in north america after around 1978 was made without using asbestos in those later products and because those non asbestos fiber cement shingles included products that by eye were an exact visual match for their older asbestos containing brothers and sisters already installed a building built.
Another name for asbestos siding.
Most siding companies are well experienced at techniques for covering over existing asbestos cement siding with new vinyl aluminum or fiber cement siding.
Synonyms for asbestos include fireproof incombustible nonflammable fire resistant flameproof flame resistant flame retardant noncombustible non flammable and noninflammable.
Quite apparent i am still above ground seventy years.
Chances of being killed by an asteroid are greater than being injured by asbestos siding.
Only people injured installing asbestos siding are those who fall off a ladder.
The reported costs for such projects range from 500 to 4 500 while the typical cost for asbestos siding removal is generally between 1 000 and 2 500.
Seventy years ago we used to throw chunks of asbestos siding in a bonfire to hear them explode.
Even a single airborne fiber of the most dangerous types of asbestos can eventually cause a particular form of lung cancer if inhaled.
And make no mistake asbestos is dangerous.
If a siding company removes an outer layer of siding and finds an older layer of asbestos cement siding beneath the standard procedure is simply to cover it over with new siding rather.
Asbestos siding was made by adding asbestos a naturally occurring mineral to portland cement.
Asbestos is an excellent electrical insulator and is highly heat.
Another phony fear issue.
æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ə s or æ s ˈ b ɛ s t ɒ s is a term used to refer to six naturally occurring silicate minerals all are composed of long and thin fibrous crystals each fibre being composed of many microscopic fibrils that can be released into the atmosphere by abrasion and other processes.
It s pretty serious but according to health canada one of the world s leading sources of unbiased information on the subject if.
Asbestos siding was very commonly used in buildings and homes from around the 1920s until the 1980s and can still be found in many older homes in the u s.
Another word for asbestos.