Red Black Aspestos Floor Backing
Here is an asbestos floor tile identification key sorted by primary flooring color.
Red black aspestos floor backing. You could also seal it with a coat of epoxy floor paint. Like floor tiles vinyl sheet flooring is a long lasting and economical material and it also offers more aesthetic options to suit a homeowner s taste. Common in homes built in the 20th century black mastic was used as an adhesive for ceramic tile linoleum and other flooring materials. Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed.
Color photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1900 1986 using dominant floor tile color to identify the probable asbestos containing floor tile brand pattern and age. In many cases the best thing to do about vinyl asbestos flooring is put a new layer of flooring on top of it. Then i went back in with p100 mask on and mopped everything down until it was water soaked. Sanding it is really tough since it gums up the sandpaper and sanding could get the fibers into the air.
I would just put down new flooring once you have removed the old stuff and if the old stuff is not loose or especially uneven you can just lay new vinyl over the old. So here s what i did. When you remove that floor covering to make way for new flooring you may encounter the mastic and wonder whether it is safe to remove the main concern surrounding this question is that black mastic often contains asbestos. Beige black blue brown tan wood tone gray green red white yellow etc.
But when vinyl asbestos flooring is in good condition it is considered nonfriable. I noticed on a different thread a post about asbestos and linoleum. 12 inch by 12 inch floor tile commonly used today. Asbestos a heat resistant fibrous silicate mineral was a common element in construction materials due to its resilient durable nature until the 1980s anyway when it was banned due to the.
Sheet linoleum and sheet vinyl floor covering the gray fibrous paper like backing is very often asbestos. The black adhesive that remains may also have asbestos. Armstrong produced the excelon tile series beginning with a plastic asbestos floor tile series in 1954 referring to the product as vinyl plastic asbestos floor tiles beginning in 1955 and vinyl asbestos tiles from 1957 to 1980. I left the room alone for a couple of days hoping any asbestos dust would settle.
Some one posted some inaccurate information. Resilient sheet flooring containing asbestos was also produced finding wide use as early as 1968. Asbestos can be found in flooring materials including 9 inch by 9 inch floor tile older thicker floor tile.