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Asbestos on walls.
Part three in a series about asbestos in your house.
Asbestos walls were used because of their fireproofing heat resistance and moisture resistance properties.
Asbestos has been linked to multiple health problems including a type of cancer called mesothelioma.
As late as the 1970s.
Asbestos is a naturally occurring fiber commonly used in many building products through the late 1980 s.
Asbestos wall coverings such as asbestos fiber reinforced papers and.
The cracks or damps on the walls may also result in the release of the asbestos fibers from the affected plaster.
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.
One such building product is the decorative plaster used on many ceilings and walls during the relevant period.
Asbestos was widely used in drywall manufacturing across the u s.
Many walls in houses homes contain asbestos.
The asbestos within the plaster comes in contact with the humans only if the plaster is coming off at different places of the old walls thus freeing the asbestos fibers stuck within the plaster.
Wallboard drywall joint compound contained asbestos.
Used as fireproofing in a cement asbestos form on furnace and boiler room ceilings and walls and corrugated decorative wallboard used in theaters.