A building material in sheet form, consisting of a compressed mixture of sand, cement, and cellulose fibre.
lovely homes made of wood and fibro-cement are rising up everywhere
as modifier they were accommodated in weatherboard and fibro-cement cottages
Example sentencesExamples
- My mother's parents donated the serving tray to me temporarily so that I had somewhere to set up in the toys our Fibro-cement abode.
- The housing in Claymore is poorly maintained and predominately constructed out of materials such as fibro-cement panels.
- The general construction of the buildings is reinforced concrete and concrete block with corrugated iron and fibro-cement board cladding.
- Where are the days a brand new 2-bed fibro cement job on stumps on the outskirts of town was affordable to first homers?
- I have asbestos in the form of fibro-cement sheeting on my house.
- A later development was the fibro-cement shack which sprang up at weekend locales outside all the coastal cities and towns from the mid-century onwards.
- In the early 1900s, it started importing fibro-cement into Australia.