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Asbestos Roof Solutions News – May 2018 As evidence that fibres do become loose from the surface of asbestos roofs, the accompanying photographs, show fibres, from a weathered asbestos cement roof, In recently cleaned box gutters, at a job site in April 2018, in Sydney NSW.   Weathered asbestos cement roof sheeting, (Fibro) undergoes a weathering process after many years of exposure and a loose surface layer develops, which on roofs becomes colonised with dark coloured lichen. The lichen, a type of fungus, secretes oxalic acid, attacks the cement, causing exposure of the asbestos fibre. The surface becomes unstable, the asbestos cement sheeting is weakened and the darkened colour causes a substantial increase in roof

The accompanying photographs in our web site gallery show the results of before and after photographs of a recently completed job in Concord, Sydney.  In this instance we were employed by a major Industrial strata management company. This of itself is not unusual, what is unusual, or one would hope is unusual, is that the company informed us that they had called 31, yes thirty one companies before they spoke with anyone (Asbestos Roof Solutions) who believed they could repair, not replace the entire roof, which had been vandalised in order to steal some copper gutters. Following site inspections and meetings with Insurance assessors, our quotation was accepted by the insurance company involved and the