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Exterior residential wall panels and asbestos

Panels that contain asbestos were usually long, thin timber boards. They were used as weatherboard to clad houses. The boards overlapped horizontally. Some panels were also used vertically, or used to sheet roof gables. 

Where was it used

Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Community infrastructure and spaces 

Locations

Walls, Ceiling and ceiling spaces, Doors, Windows, Bathroom, Roofs and eaves, Fences 

Known uses

Exterior cladding of domestic buildings, roof gables. 

Also known as

AC Cladding 

Characteristics

Where the panel attaches to the building, the nail head sits on top of the panel. It is not indented into the surface. 

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Gables of vertical profiled asbestos cement wall panels
Horizontal moulded asbestos cement sheeting that looks like timber slats
Horizontal moulded asbestos cement sheeting that looks like timber slats
Horizontal moulded asbestos cement sheeting that looks like timber slats
Asbestos-containing weatherboard cladding a house