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Asbestos Roof Solutions News – 6th June 2018 Asbestos Roof Solutions knowledge and experience assists building owners to address Asbestos in the workplace issues. At a site in Milperra in Western Sydney, we were able to assist a building owner to comply with the directives of a building report received from his insurance company, with regard to the condition of the buildings fibro asbestos roof. The insurance company prior to reinsuring, directed the owner to provide compliance with the recommendations of reports on the condition of the roof surface. Tests showed that the asbestos roof surface had broken down and asbestos fibres were being released into the environment. The photograph of the gutter line at

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