Clapboard Siding Being Covered Up By Asbestos

I have a house build in 1868 i have been doing an enormous amount of work on it since i bought it about 7 years ago.

Clapboard siding being covered up by asbestos.

A better strategy may be to cover it over with new siding which effectively seals in the asbestos material. This is usually the preferred method of dealing with asbestos building materials. Most siding companies are well experienced at techniques for covering over existing asbestos cement siding with new vinyl aluminum or fiber cement siding. Asbestos cement is a composite material consisting of portland cement reinforced with asbestos fibers.

Because fiber cement siding manufactured in north america after around 1978 was made without using asbestos in those later products and because those non asbestos fiber cement shingles included products that by eye were an exact visual match for their older asbestos containing brothers and sisters already installed a building built. Do not throw or drop removed asbestos siding. The house has the original clapboard siding covered over with asbestos siding which was done a long time ago and is looking very dated. Dispose of the asbestos properly at a landfill or contact your local waste collection service to find out if they will pick up asbestos material.

I realize tearing off the asbestos praying the wood underneath is in good shape and bring back the house to it s original state would be. So for example if one of the clapboards measures 10 inches and there are 20 of those clapboards going up the side of the home 10 x 20 200.