Asbestos cement

Where do you find this?

You can find asbestos cement in many places inside and outside buildings such as:

Asbestos cement roofs

These are mainly made up of large sheets of corrugated asbestos cement; they are often found on industrial or farmyard buildings, but also can be found as roofs on garages and sheds. They are usually covered in mosses as they've been there for many years.

Asbestos wall cladding

Shape and structure similar to roof sheeting, and is often found on walls/as walls of buildings with asbestos cement roofs.

Asbestos downpipes and gutters

Sometimes attached at the end of cement roofs in warehouse type buildings.

Asbestos cement flues

This may be found in boiler systems (including domestic) air conditioning and ventilation systems.

Articles

Examples include water tanks, fire surrounds and pipes.

What does it look like?

Asbestos cement is just ordinary cement mixed with asbestos, in some cases asbestos can make up over a third of the cement. It is a hard, grey material which was moulded and compressed to produce some of the materials listed above.

How dangerous is this?

You don't need a licence to carry out work with asbestos cement, and it also doesn't need to be notified.