PRICE OF ASBESTOS CEILING IN NIGERIA
Asbestos ceiling has been modernized due to the reported cases of hazards coming from asbestos materials if their particles find way into human body organs by either inhaling, or swallowing the particles unknowingly.
Modern asbestos ceilings are made with cellulose materials from plants and very minute quantity of asbestos fiber. The ceilings offer a lot of advantages ranging from fireproofing, durability, easy installations, and cheap price to echo and noise dampening.
The modern asbestos ceiling are safer and carefully produced by putting safety of the end users into consideration knowing fully-well the danger asbestos particles tends to impose in the surrounding if found in the air.
The major difference between modern asbestos ceilings and those made in the 1980s and 1990s is the method of including the asbestos and quantity involved. While the early asbestos ceiling used Popcorn ceiling as a major type of the asbestos ceiling, the modern asbestos ceilings are pure made with wood cellulose.
The popcorn ceiling of early asbestos ceilings used to have asbestos sprays on the surface after installation for beautification purposes and creating a fireproof layer on the ceiling. This practice had been banned in the United States since 1977, hence, it is no longer invoke because it s unsafe and exposes the end users to the risk of getting cancer from its particles that fly out into the surrounding air and got inhaled.
Other old ceilings made with asbestos or asbestos inclusion did not put much safety into consideration based on the fact that the negative impacts of asbestos have not been discovered then. Therefore early asbestos ceiling contain more quantity of asbestos and may not be mixed properly with additives that can reduce the negative impacts.
Modern asbestos ceilings have safety in consideration during production. With correct additives to hold the little asbestos particles included in the cellulose material, this will ensure the asbestos particles will not fly out into the air while being in use.
With all the safety precautions of asbestos handling being observed, a builder can take benefit of all the advantages the modern asbestos have against other materials.
For instance, modern asbestos ceiling has been found to be stronger than PVC Ceiling, it has been found to be cheaper that PVC Ceiling, Asbestos ceiling can last as long as 50 years in service while most PVC Ceiling may not last that long.
It is a fireproof material, a property not easily seen in other types of ceiling except he POP ceiling.
In Nigeria, modern asbestos ceilings are no longer common in buildings because it is considered to be old-fashioned ceilings. PVC Ceilings and POP Ceilings have taken over the modern buildings in Nigeria because they offer good looks and exhibit the feeling of being modern or simply put, it makes the building to look up to date.
However, those that still have safety of fire outbreak in mind and all the good features POP ceiling could offer but could not afford the POP ceiling could equally go for the modern asbestos ceiling because the two have similar features and advantages but the Asbestos ceiling is far cheaper than all of them. In fact, it is the cheapest ceiling being sold today in the local markets within Nigeria.
As at July 2020, the market of modern Asbestos ceiling is:
One sheet of the low grade = N800 measuring 1200mm by 1200mm
One sheet of the high grade =N1000 measuring 1200mm by 1200mm
As at April 2022, the market of modern Asbestos ceiling is:
One sheet of the low grade = N1200 measuring 1200mm by 1200mm
One sheet of the high grade =N1800 measuring 1200mm by 1200mm
These two types are the most available and commonly used types of modern Asbestos in Nigeria. The ceiling could come in other measurements and the price will be based on the grade/quality as well as the size.
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