Asbestos Disposal Bristol

Asbestos Disposal Bristol

A4 Asbestos specialises in the asbestos testing & removal in Bristol. For more information about our Asbestos Disposal Bristol service, visit our website today.

The term asbestos permeates throughout society still to this day, as it health effects linger from its abundant use back in the last century. You may have heard that asbestos may be present in your home if you live in an older home or perhaps work in an old building that is being renovated, with signs stuck up on the walls warning you of the potential effects of asbestos. It's a bitter realisation paired with painful hindsight that such a harmful material was so widely used not only in the UK but throughout the world. How was a harmful substance like asbestos even used in our day to day lives? Why was it so quickly adopted and used by domestic and commercial entities?



Large-scale asbestos mining dates back as far as the mid 19th century, with companies in London and Scotland becoming the first companies to adopt this material to use it commercially. Asbestos was first commercially used for Yarn, with its fibres being ideal for making long lengths of yarn. Asbestos slowly become a more abundant material as people found more uses for it, like with any material. Asbestos had many attractive qualities such as great tensile strength, thermal abilities as well as electrical resistance and flame retardance. It was used in everything from roofing, tiling, boilers, water pipes, paints, towels, plastics, wire insulation, cigarette filters, brake pads, water filters and even toys and crayons. Its use was so abundant that it was even used in gas filters. With large mines popping up in Canada to capitalise on this newly found material, the world was using asbestos faster than it could be produced.

It wasn't until 1899 that a Dr Montague Murray starting noting the negative health effects that asbestos had on humans. In the early 1900's, researchers in the UK began seeing a rising number of young deaths and lung complications in towns that were known for asbestos mining. The first study to be released was conducted by Dr Montague Murray in London, carrying out a postmortem on a young man who died from pulmonary fibrosis. The man worked in a textile factory that heavily used asbestos, and it was apparent that asbestos had a large part to play in his death as traces of asbestos were found in his lungs.


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