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Fitting signs on corrugated asbestos cladding
What’s the teams view on fitting signs onto old style industrial units that feature corrugated cladding material containing asbestos. Is this a health hazard? What’s best practice to fit any signs to this type of material or is it best left alone?
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Asbestos sheet/cement board is pretty safe and the lowest level of hazard where asbestos is concerned as long as it’s left in that form. Having said that I wouldn’t want to drill or saw it as that would release dust particles into the air.
I can’t see what harm a good modern adhesive would have on it, but you might find it difficult to achieve a long term fix without thoroughly cleaning the original surface. So you’re back to the problem of releasing particles into the air :awkward:
Some folk say to run water over the surface when you’re working on it to keep the dust down, but what happens to the dust when it dries?… Horrible stuff.
By the way, I understand they pretty much stopped using asbestos in the mid 80s, so if the building you’re referring to was built more recent than that, it may not be asbestos at all.
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Hi Phill
We had some tins of spray adhesive for carpet and I noticed on the back that one of its other suggested uses was to spray onto exactly this type of material – I’m guessing to hold the fibres in place and stop them becoming airborne ??
Cheers
Dave
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