Galbestos Roof Sheets

What this sheet covers this sheet describes good practice when you need to remove metal cladding lined with asbestos containing bitumen eg galbestos.

Galbestos roof sheets.

This sheet describes good practice when you need to remove metal cladding lined with asbestos containing bitumen eg ï galbestosï. For advice on when and how you should use these sheets make sure you printout and read a0 introduction to asbestos essentials. The general manufacturing procedure started with a carbon steel sheet that was then hot dip galvanized. Contemporary roofing product manufacturers make reinforced fiber cement roofing shingles and other roofing products which look like perform similarly to and need to be installed similarly to the original corrugated asbestos cement sheet roofing but these new products are free of asbestos.

Adding asbestos to the cement made the corrugated roofing sheets more heat resistant weatherproof and durable. Since the cement sheets were fireproof manufacturers initially considered them safer as compared to wood. While the zinc was still molten an asbestos felt was pressed into the surface to form a mechanical bond between the zinc and the asbestos hence the name gal bestos. Corrugated roofing sheets made of asbestos is common in uk homes constructed prior to 2000.

This sheet is not appropriate for work with asbestos containing bitumen products eg roofing felt damp proof course see sheet a21. Work with asbestos cement ac non licensed working with textured coatings tc containing asbestos non licensed. The general manufacturing procedure started with a carbon steel sheet that was then hot dip galvanized. Equipment and method sheets.

Commonly used as external roof and wall cladding. Corrugated asbestos sheets were used in the roofing and siding of all types of buildings especially in factories and farms. Asbestos coated metal sheet galbestos usage. Galbestos metal cladding was produced as a corrosion resistant metal roofing and siding panel.

Asbestos essentials task sheets. Refurbish with a specialist coating coatings provide a permanent and highly effective waterproofing solution in an easy two step process. Galvanised iron sheets with a coating of asbestos on each side. Keywords non licensed control of asbestos regulations asbestos asbestos essentials a22 remove metal cladding lined bitumen good practice galbestos.

Galbestos metal cladding was produced as a corrosion resistant metal roofing and siding panel. The general manufacturing procedure started with a carbon steel sheet that was then hot dip galvanized.