Where do you find Asbestos Insulating Board (AIB)?
Asbestos Insulating Board is also known as AIB and it is a highly dangerous form of asbestos.
Asbestos Insulating Board was commonly used as fireproofing material but it had many other uses such as:
- Partition walls
- Fireproofing panels in fire doors
- Lift shaft linings
- Ceiling tiles
- Soffits
- Panels below
What does Asbestos Insulating Board look like?
It looks like normal building items such as wall panels boards, ceiling tiles and plasterboard.
It is difficult to tell the difference between asbestos insulating board items and non-asbestos materials.
The best advice if you suspect that it even could be asbestos insulating boards is to contact us and arrange a survey
We will be able to advise you exactly what your options are, and if it is confirmed as asbestos material, we can remove the contamination quickly, safely and efficiently at an affordable cost.
How dangerous is it?
Work on AIB is dangerous. Asbestos insulating board easily releases fibres in to the air when disturbed.
Asbestos fibres are at their most dangerous when they are airborne and therefore can be breathed in. If you find or suspect you have found asbestos insulation board. Leaving it undisturbed until we can survey and test samples greatly reduces the risk of exposure.
This type of asbestos material must be notified to the HSE upon its detection and handled / removed only by fully trained and licensed HSE contractors, of which we are and have been for one 35 years.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WORK ON OR REMOVE THIS MATERIAL
WE ARE AN APPROVED HSE ASBESTOS CONTRACTOR, CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU SUSPECT THAT YOU HAVE FOUND ASBESTOS INSULATION BOARD
