Asbestos Interior Walls

This product came in two forms and was used to fuse the seams between drywall panels once they were installed.

Asbestos interior walls. One such building product is the decorative plaster used on many ceilings and walls during the relevant period. Asbestos was common in building materials between 1920 and 1986 asbestos was common in decorative plaster between the 1940s and 1980s and in the artex ceilings that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Asbestos is a naturally occurring fiber commonly used in many building products through the late 1980 s.

It would be very unusual to have asbestos on the internal walls even at the height of asbestos use. Sanding scraping or drilling these wall surfaces may release asbestos into the air. This film extract provides information about drilling into non friable bonded asbestos walls and ceilings.

Toll free 855 404 4592. Chrysotile tends to be the most commonly identified asbestos walls within the safe environments nata accredited laboratory. Whether there is asbestos in your home s drywall or not most sheetrock mud also known as wall joint compound which was sold between 1940 and 1980 did contain asbestos fiber.

For external and wet area walls this may be the case but not throughout the entire house. Drywall and asbestos drywall is the first choice material for interior wall finishing in most american buildings. Always consider the removal of the asbestos containing material as the preferred control option before drilling into an asbestos wall or ceiling.

Asbestos may be hiding in your home from insulation inattics to pipes in walls. Asbestos walls can comprise all three types of asbestos which include chrysotile white asbestos amosite brown asbestos and crocidolite blue asbestos. Asbestos has been linked to multiple health problems including a type of cancer called mesothelioma.

Samples should be taken and tested for presence of asbestos when replacing and discarding walls. An extract from asbestos awareness an informative guide to asbestos produced by parsons brinckerhoff. Learn how to spot avoid and safely deal with asbestos inyour home.