Flat coloured asbestos cement panels
Description
Coloured AC sheeting smoothed surfaced on both faces, with the colour appearing on one face only. Flat and curved sheets.
Used for curtain walling, spandrel panels and applied as double sheets back to back, such as in external balustrades.
Asbestos Products Ltd produced a coloured AC sheet named Artbestos in the 1930s for interior/exterior use. Colours listed as: Grove green, Sky blue, Stucco brown, Ochre, Shell pink, Cream and Buff.
Colorbord was a James Hardie product from 1960. Coloured AC sheeting market dominated by James Hardie.
Colorbord range of colours and market names varied slightly from 1960s to end of production in mid 1980s.
Brands/products
- Colorbord
Note: Not Colorboard – a BurnieBoard wood product
- Artbestos
Years of production/use
Prior to 1990
Residential uses
Houses and apartment blocks – spandrel panels on balustrades and curtain walls
Industrial uses
Government buildings and schools, office blocks, motels, all industrial building applications – advertised as interesting infill variation for construction of schools, shopping centres as well as interior partitions in offices and factories.
Be aware
Some approaches to commercial remediation may have incorporated leaving in situ and covering with non-ACM materials.
