Asbestos cement - is it safe for your health?

Fibre cement is a product used on the whole, in the past as a building material. It has often 10-15% of asbestos fibres, which are bound in Portland cement or calcium silicate and uncoated steel sheets are light grey in color (can a number of leaves drawn or apply a factory coating).
Fibre cement is a good prison, leaf, building materials, usually used for roofing and outbuildings such as garages. Attention must be taken not to be confused with asbestos is similar in appearance to insulation Board, but since it is much more dangerous soft.
Despite the increasing number of published studies, the the dangers of asbestos for people's health is as large companies continue to of asbestos despite the fact that safe isolation, use alternatives such as fiberglass, were available to replace it. By the end of the 1980s asbestos was used and large asbestos cements in construction materials from asbestos cement sheeting for ceilings and walls to corrugated cardboard used for roofing.
Usually the existence of asbestos-containing materials is no cause for alarm and leave the materials in the site. For example, if internal asbestos sheet are in good shape and color coated, they cause no health risks. External roofing and siding must not be replaced, unless they are faulty or the surfaces are damaged. Asbestos-cement construction products was maintained, removed or disposed of safely, on the condition that you are certain to prevent precautions to the release of asbestos fibres or dust.
All homeowners who comes to deal then with appropriate waste disposal with a decision which must remove asbestos-cement from the House of after it has been removed from their homes. All other elements that are released while cements, which become contaminated, the removal of asbestos have also in the same way in safety.

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