Asbestos cement soffit panelling (Eaves)
Description
Panelling for roof overhang beyond wall line (eaves). Fixtures may include AC battens. Some specific soffit production included ventilation holes in various patterns and hole shapes.
Panelling may have been cut to size on site from wall sheeting. Maybe coloured or painted, laminated or single solid sheet.
Larger areas under roof lines covering attached car ports, porches or decks may also have had the same AC sheeting installed or a variant such as Villaboard, at the time. The original Villaboard product was AC, until the mid 1980s. Moulded AC panels may also have been installed in these areas.
Structures with external AC wall panelling are likely to have AC soffit panelling.
During 1970s, commonly used in houses with no other external AC product (eg brick house with cement tile roof).
Years of production/use
Prior to 1990
Brands/products
- Fibrolite
- Tasbestos
- Durabestos
- Fibrock
- Decorvent
- Fibrocene
- Wunderflex
- Flexboard
- Asbestolite
- Hardiflex
- Villaboard
- Versilux
- Fibrobestos
Residential uses
Houses, garages
Industrial uses
Office and government buildings, older factories, community buildings, pubs, churches
Be aware
Damaged eaves can expose friable fibres. Poor maintenance may lead to weathered edges and increase in damage. Damage from ingress of rodents/wildlife may expose fibres.
Well maintained soffit panels may not be easily identified as AC.
