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Door, window, cornice & joining strip mouldings and asbestos

Strip mouldings can have plain or rounded (spigoted) edges, including louvre blades. A round nail may be visible on the strip, usually just above the surface.

Where was it used

Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Community infrastructure and spaces, Agricultural and horticultural

Locations

Doors, Windows, Kitchen, Laundry, Bathrooms, Mouldings and moulded products, Garage, sheds and dog kennels, Fences

Known uses

Commonly used to cover joins between fibre cement sheets and around cornices, windows, and door architraves. Strip mouldings were used inside and outside.

Also known as

Architrave

Characteristics

  • Round nails may be visible on the strip, usually just above the surface
  • They may be painted over on walls and around cornices, windows and doors.

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Moulded asbestos cement window architrave
Moulded asbestos cement window architrave
Asbestos cement wall with moulded asbestos joining stripsĀ 
Asbestos cement wall with moulded asbestos joining strips
Moulded asbestos ceiling joining strips
Close-up of exterior joining strip end and corner capping on asbestos cement wall
Moulded asbestos exterior joining strips
Exterior joining strips on asbestos cement wall
Moulded asbestos cornice on asbestos cement wall and ceiling