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2. Asbestos cement - Wikipedia

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   The roof is sheeted with corrugated fibro sheets and the walls with flat fibro sheeting, with fibro battens covering the joints. Example of asbestos cement siding and lining on a post-war temporary house in Yardley, Birmingham. Nearly 40,000 of these structures were built between 1946 and 1949 to house families.

3. Asbestos - Wikipedia

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   About 90% of the imported asbestos is used to produce about 100 million m 2 of cement roofing sheets (asbestos-cement). According to one study, among 300 families in Yen Bai, Thanh Hoa, 85% of households use asbestos roofing sheets, but only 5% know about the negative health effects. [162]

4. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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   Roofing material is the outermost layer on the roof of a building, sometimes self-supporting, but generally supported by an underlying structure. A building's roofing material provides shelter from the natural elements. The outer layer of a roof shows great variation dependent upon availability of material, and the nature of the supporting ...

5. Transite - Wikipedia

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   It can also be found in insulation, siding, roof gutters, and cement wallboard. The more prevalent transite found in wall construction and roofing tiles for example, will last anywhere from 50 years to over 100 years. [citation needed] The use of asbestos, a proven carcinogen, to manufacture transite was phased out in the 1980s.

6. Eternit - Wikipedia

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   Front cover of a brochure for Hatscheks Eternit Schiefer (asbestos cement roof tiles) Fibre-reinforced cement products were invented in the late 19th century by the Austrian Ludwig Hatschek . Principally he mixed 90% Portland cement and 10% asbestos fibres with water and ran it through a cardboard machine.

7. Asbestos shingle - Wikipedia

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   Asbestos shingles are roof or wall shingles made with asbestos cement board. They often resemble slate shingles and were mass-produced during the 20th century as these were more resilient to weathering than traditional slate shingles for the reason that slate is very soft and prone to weathering.