What does it consist of?

In the year 2001 in Spain the commercialization and use of asbestos was prohibited following the European directives CEE Nº 83/477 / CEE of 19/9/83, 87/217 / CEE of 19/3/87, 91/382 / CEE of 7/25/91, EUR LEX 32003 LO018ES, due to the great health risk posed by the handling of this type of material, especially when it is installed, cut, drilled or exposed to breakage due to its natural aging.

However, although this material was already banned and no longer used, fiber cement was a widely used material in Spain, with a large number of industrial buildings and homes being built that have corrugated asbestos plates installed on their roofs, the famous “Uralita Plate“. That is why it may be necessary to repair or replace some of these covers that were executed when asbestos was not yet prohibited in Spain.

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What does it consist of?

In the year 2001 in Spain the commercialization and use of asbestos was prohibited following the European directives CEE Nº 83/477 / CEE of 19/9/83, 87/217 / CEE of 19/3/87, 91/382 / CEE of 7/25/91, EUR LEX 32003 LO018ES, due to the great health risk posed by the handling of this type of material, especially when it is installed, cut, drilled or exposed to breakage due to its natural aging.

However, although this material was already banned and no longer used, fiber cement was a widely used material in Spain, with a large number of industrial buildings and homes being built that have corrugated asbestos plates installed on their roofs, the famous “Uralita Plate“. That is why it may be necessary to repair or replace some of these covers that were executed when asbestos was not yet prohibited in Spain.

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Why is asbestos harmful to health?

Asbestos is dangerous because of the shape of the microscopic fibers that make it up, rather than because of its chemical composition. These fibers are dangerous when they are suspended in the air we breathe since they are incorporated into our respiratory system and cause serious diseases such as lung cancer, among others. That is why, although we have an asbestos cover installed, we should not worry excessively as long as it is not manipulated and / or breaks or cuts occur that may incorporate fibers into the environment. Even so, it is a great risk to our health because these fibers can be incorporated into our environment almost without realizing it due to the effect of their natural aging.

YOU HAVE A ROOF OF URALITE, FIBROCEMENT OR ASBESTOS

We can help you

How can it be solved?

If we have an asbestos covering and it suffers some damage or we simply want to get rid of it to be sure that it will not affect our health, we have two clear options:

  1. Complete demolition of the roof and construction of a new one with suitable materials. This process must be carried out by a company registered and authorized in the management of asbestos waste, and the demolished material must be deposited in authorized landfills upon payment of the corresponding fee.
  2. Covering the roof with suitable materials that allow its total encapsulation to avoid the contribution of microscopic fibers to the environment.

Why DECOPROYEC sprayed cork?

DECOPROYEC sprayed cork is a 100% ecological and elastic continuous coating (avoiding future cracks) that forms a film of at least 3 mm thick on the asbestos cover where it is applied, producing a total encapsulation that prevents the exit of any type of microscopic asbestos fiber into the environment.

This solution would be the fastest and cheapest since we would avoid the tedious and expensive works that would involve the demolition and construction of a new roof.

In addition, we would gain all the properties of DECOPROYEC sprayed cork, such as greater thermal insulation, acoustic improvement, waterproofing and aesthetic improvement.