Asbestos can be beautiful too.

Asbestos isn’t always just dull, contaminated grey fluff of death. The selling point of having asbestos products around in the first place was for its easy adaptation to be fitted and installed almost anywhere, and everywhere. Here at ACE we have selected a few...
The Wizard of Oz, and Asbestos?

The Wizard of Oz, and Asbestos?

Christmas may be long gone; and whilst many of us wished for snow, the disappointment of having another none-white Christmas was always imminent. Last night we finally got some snow, but some may say it came a bit late, 19 days late to be precise. If only we could...
Health Effects of Asbestos

Health Effects of Asbestos

Pliney the Younger AD61-114 wrote; “those people who mine and work with asbestos become ill”, from that point in history very little seems to be recorded insofar as the effects of prolonged exposure to asbestos fibre or products.In the absence of any great...
What is Asbestos

What is Asbestos

Asbestos is a fibrous mineral silicate with a crystalline structure that comes from a mineral rock. Over the millennia is has been used in building materials because of its high tensile strength, flexibility, resistance to chemicals, high temperatures and stress. As a...