Asbestos pipes - where you can not use

Asbestos pipes or, as they are also called, asbestos cement, have always been considered reliable and, most importantly, an economical product widely used in rural areas in summer cottages for chimney pipes. In addition, products from this material have found wide application in construction: for example, sewage communications and the most famous - slate. But it's no secret that the slate bursts in the fire, however, this does not stop the craftsmen from using asbestos pipes for chimneys. And yet, this aspect is regulated by a number of normative documents.

The rules for fire safety are strictly forbidden to use such material for furnishing stove heating. While building regulations allow the use of asbestos, provided that the temperature of the incoming gases is not more than 300 degrees Celsius. At the same time, when passing through the attic space, asbestos pipes need to be insulated to prevent condensation.

And although producers in the technical characteristics of asbestos cement products indicate the possibility of their use for ventilation holes, chimneys and flues, air ducts, the exploitation of this material, in the presence of a furnace, can easily lead to very disastrous results. Please note that any attempt to make a chimney from this material on a wood-burning fireplace or a coal stove will lead to a fire hazard situation, in simple language, to a fire.

When used for chimneys, an asbestos pipe shows all the shortcomings of this material, more precisely - their inadequacy for use where there is a possibility of a very high temperature.

First, the use of asbestos-cement material greatly reduces the draft, since there is not enough heat capacity to support it, condensate is absorbed, and only a vertical gas outlet is possible.

Secondly, there is no possibility to build special hatches for revision and cleaning of soot from the chimney, which, you will agree, is important when using the oven for a long time. When designing, it was calculated that asbestos pipes will be used for low-power devices - gas columns and gas heating with a low temperature regime.

Summarizing the above, we can conclude: the use of this material is not intended for the chimney in the furnace heating systems, and sooner or later lead to an accident. Alternatively, it could be a burst pipe, and, as a consequence, the release of carbon monoxide through the resulting crack. There may be inflammation of the adjacent flammable material.

Today, the construction industry can offer the consumer sufficiently safe materials that do not allow residents of private houses to play "Russian roulette", instead create absolutely safe and regulated conditions for using heating systems.

Therefore, before you buy asbestos pipes and use them for chimneys, think 100 times whether it is worth doing.