Hello
I currently have an asbestos cement facade, but I want wood. Now to the question, am I doing something unwise from a construction or regulatory standpoint if I install the wood paneling over the asbestos cement? I neither have the time nor the desire to tear it down. Grateful for any answers.
I currently have an asbestos cement facade, but I want wood. Now to the question, am I doing something unwise from a construction or regulatory standpoint if I install the wood paneling over the asbestos cement? I neither have the time nor the desire to tear it down. Grateful for any answers.
Eternit is very foolish to have if it ever catches fire. I don't know what the insurance company says if you build it in.
My friend's union took an extra insurance on their eternithus.
I would probably have removed it, added extra insulation, and then put on paneling.
My friend's union took an extra insurance on their eternithus.
I would probably have removed it, added extra insulation, and then put on paneling.
I left it in place. If it starts burning, you have other problems...
We nailed a 45x45 with a nail gun and 90mm long nails and then laid another 45x45 in the other direction.
After that, wind barrier and then air gap and panel.
A yellow wooden house with white corners looks better than Green eternit.
We nailed a 45x45 with a nail gun and 90mm long nails and then laid another 45x45 in the other direction.
After that, wind barrier and then air gap and panel.
A yellow wooden house with white corners looks better than Green eternit.
Why would asbestos cement (eternit) be bad if it starts to burn, it doesn't burn?
If you're tired of the color (sixties municipal gray, motion sickness green, pale pink) of one of the best façade materials in world history, i.e., asbestos cement, it's perfectly fine to paint it. We painted the asbestos cement façade on our parents' house 8-10 years ago with water-based acrylic paint. It turned out well, the paint holds.
If you're tired of the color (sixties municipal gray, motion sickness green, pale pink) of one of the best façade materials in world history, i.e., asbestos cement, it's perfectly fine to paint it. We painted the asbestos cement façade on our parents' house 8-10 years ago with water-based acrylic paint. It turned out well, the paint holds.
????gadeberg said:
Why would eternit be bad in the event of a fire?? Eternit is something that was frequently used specifically as fire-resistant material on doors and walls in boiler rooms. That for future possible sales it’s certainly seen as a bad choice not to have removed it beforehand because many only hear the word eternit and think they will get cancer from it is another thing which may make it sensible to remove before.
Funny that it behaves like that since, as mentioned, it was used as fire protection in boiler rooms and garages before it was banned due to the dust being ingevidare to work in.
gadeberg said:
Interesting, will try...
Uh, what?
Are you completely sure it's Eternit you have if it explodes from heat? I find it hard to believe.
Eternit and the more modern Minerit (without Asbestos) are still used as functioning fire protection in many places. Surely, one wouldn't use a material that explodes from a little heat?
Can someone who knows more about this clarify the concepts?
And I have a little question. If you shot with a nail gun through the Eternit, didn't it crack? The Eternit we took down from our house would definitely have cracked like a gingerbread from such treatment.
/pinebar
Are you completely sure it's Eternit you have if it explodes from heat? I find it hard to believe.
Eternit and the more modern Minerit (without Asbestos) are still used as functioning fire protection in many places. Surely, one wouldn't use a material that explodes from a little heat?
Can someone who knows more about this clarify the concepts?
And I have a little question. If you shot with a nail gun through the Eternit, didn't it crack? The Eternit we took down from our house would definitely have cracked like a gingerbread from such treatment.
/pinebar
The only thing I can imagine causing eternit to explode is rapid, intense heating of damp eternit. The water trapped in the plate could then vaporize quickly, causing the plate to "explode." In the same way, you can make gray stone explode if you apply a cutting torch. Although in this case, it is probably more stress in the stone than trapped moisture.
If I remember correctly, it is the crystals in some of the minerals in the rock that change structure when heated. This causes a volume change and thus the reaction.
What I can feel about nailing wood onto an eternit facade, (I have it myself) is that I think it could become a thermal bridge where the eternit remains. I would have preferred if they had removed the eternit before insulating and boarding.
I am thinking that it has significantly worse insulating ability than, for example, gullfiber...
Then, like on my facade, for example. There it can blow (cool) in from underneath where it is exposed with all the facade's different layers...
It's just a thought, of course, but I think it should probably be warmer with just insulation and no eternit in between.
Then, like on my facade, for example. There it can blow (cool) in from underneath where it is exposed with all the facade's different layers...
It's just a thought, of course, but I think it should probably be warmer with just insulation and no eternit in between.