Where can you find asbestos?
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.
- Loose fill insulation
- Vinyl floor tiles
- AIB ceiling tiles
- Lagging on boilers and pipes
- Sprayed coatings on ceilings, walls, beams and columns
- Textured decorating coatings on walls and ceilings (eg artex)
- Toilet seat and cistern
- AIB window panels, bath panels, partition wall panels, and firedoor panels
- AIB around boilers, airing cupboards, fireplaces and fuse boxes
- Asbestos cement water tanks, roofs, gutters/downpipes, and flues
- Textiles (eg fire blankets)
AIB = Asbestos Insulating Board