Archive for January 2023

Asbestos is considered to be friable when it can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure. Examples of friable asbestos include sprayed-on insulation and loose asbestos fibers in insulation or other materials. There are different ways to know if asbestos is friable or not: It’s important to remember that friable asbestos can…

The use of asbestos in building construction materials was phased out in New Zealand in the late 1980s. The New Zealand government banned the importation of asbestos products in 1984 and asbestos was phased out of use by 1987. However, asbestos products that were already in the country at the time of the ban were…

That’s quite a difficult question to answer and will have many differing outcomes dependent on the huge variants in the type of asbestos, its condition and locations (especially the materials ability to be disturbed or not) in some situations it may well be safe to leave it alone , asbestos is generally not classed as…