Asbestos cement ceiling sheeting
Description
Appearance can be identical to seamless plasterboard (non-ACM) ceiling sheets.
Older ceilings may have AC or wooden battens over jointing. Butted jointing of sheets may have v-edging with shear point nail heads (clouts) visible.
Early to mid-20th century ceilings may have moulded patterns such as rectangles or diamonds. Usually installed in conjunction with AC cornices and walls.
Commercial buildings built from late 1960s onwards may have aluminium moulded jointing strips.
See also: Low Density Board
Brands/products
- Fibrolite
- Durabestos
- Tasbestos
- Asbestolite
- Fibrock
- Wunderflex
- Versilux
- Asbestolux (LDB)
- Duralux (LDB) (Wunderlich Qld)
Duralux is also a current brand name for a fibre board product manufactured in Australia with no asbestos
- Bevelux (LDB)
Years of production/use
Prior to 1990
Residential uses
Industrial uses
Offices, community and government buildings, workshops, factory structures etc
Be aware
A ceiling lower than normal height or suspended tiles/panel system in an older building may still have original AC sheeting in place.
