Asbestos Fence

We wanted to start our renovations by demolishing parts of the boundary fence, so we can enclose the car port with a brick wall. The fence was built in the early 80's so we thought it would be made of fibre cement. But now we learnt the asbestos was used in WA until at least 1985. So to make sure we actually had a piece of the fence tested in a laboratory and yep, it is asbestos :-(
Fortunately Ian painted the fence before moving in. The fence itself is not harmful but when it starts to break down the toxic fibres may get, so the paint is a good protection against this.
Anyway, a asbestos removal company equipped with gas masks and overalls came on Friday and removed parts of the fence. And we also know the much cheaper and easier way to identify asbestos fences now :-) Just count the corrugations - 7 means asbestos, 5 means fibre cement. When they had to replace the mineral asbestos fibre with cellulose fibre they also changed the design so that one could easily differentiate between the two :)