Asbestos house siding, pipe insulation, floor and ceiling tiling was widely used in commercial buildings and regular homes between the 1920 and up until the 1980s. Nowadays, we still see a lot of older homes with this form of siding throughout the USA and Canada.

Asbestos products are made of two main components, cement and asbestos, and it comes in a broad variety of shapes, forms, profiles and textures. The reason why asbestos was mixed into the cement was its outstanding excellent thermal...