Fibro
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A pre-WW2 house in Darwin. The roof is sheeted with corrugated fibro sheets and the walls with flat fibro sheeting, with fibro cover battens over the joints.
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Roof sheeting, known as Hardies "super six."
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Exposed asbestos fibres on weathered Super Six hip flashing.
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A tool used for cutting flat fibro sheets, a fibro cutter.
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White pipe used as rainwater leader in abandoned construction site in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Fibro, the shortened form of "Fibrous Cement" - or "Fibrous Asbestos Cement", FAC, is a building material made of compressed fibres cemented into rigid sheets.[1]
While "Fibro" has been used in a number of countries, it is in Australia where its use was the most widespread. Manufactured and sold by James Hardie until the mid 1980s "Fibro" in all its forms was a very popular building material. The fibres involved were almost always Asbestos based. The use of "Fibro" has since been banned in several countries, including Australia itself, due to its asbestosis- and mesothelioma-causing Asbestos content.
Products Used In The Building Industry
- Flat sheets for house walls and ceilings were usually 6 mm and 4.5 mm thick, in 900 and 1200 widths and from 1800 to 3000 long.
- Battens 50 mm wide x 8 mm thick. Used to cover the joints in the sheets.
- Super Six corrugated roof sheeting and fencing.
- Internal wet area sheeting, "Tilux"
- Pipes of various sizes for water and drainage.
- Moulded products from plant pots to cable pits.
See also
- Fiber cement siding replaced the asbestos sheeting in the 1980s.
- Eternit
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