Building defects database - Asbestos

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Characteristically for a house built during the 1970s the eaves soffit boards are of asbestos cement. After a surveyor recommended improving ventilation of the roof space a contractor had cut small vents into the soffit boards - an understandable but undesirable implementation of the general recommendation. Providing vents in the tiled gable ends would have been technically more challenging but a much more suitable solution.