The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:44 am**

Archive page 7 says that pitch fibre pipework contains asbestos.
A Google check (Pitch fibre + asbestos) gives the most likely hit as a BRE page which says that their are two of these types of drainage pipe - pitch fibre and pitch impregnated asbestos fibre.
I have found no other references.
I have had an asbestos test carried out on a section of pitchfibre pipe (nicely flattened as per usual!).
I (and the rest of the country) were relieved to find the result was NEGATIVE.
The end of another urban myth.............unless someone on site knows different?

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2004 10:47 am**

I only know from being told when a young lad that some pitch fibre pipes contained asbestos. I never worked with any, but I do recall the owld navvies talking about laying them just after the war.

Posted: **Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:55 pm**

The BRE site says "Pitch fibre and pitch impregnated asbestos fibre were popular materials for drainage pipes in the 1960s and 1970s. The pipes were made to the former British Standard BS 2760 which has now been withdrawn".

If the BRE says they had asbestos in them, then I'm pretty sure they will have - most people these days seem keen to tell us their products don't have asbestos in them.

The Brew Cabin

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