The home was built in 66, and I am fairly confident t, Has anyone ever seen this flooring is almost like paper. Asbestos floor tiles were once a popular choice for flooring, and you will often find old asbestos floor tiles hidden under carpets. At least in your photo I don't see extensive breaking up of the floor tiles. The old tiles are relatively thin, around 1/8-inch thick, so installing new flooring on top will not appreciably raise the height of the floor. This morning, before I continued cutting, it dawned on me that it might contain asbestos. Can someone point out to me asbestos information about linoleum "sheets"? Another time period asbestos floors were popular was between the years of 1920 and 1960. Testing for asbestos was completed on a fragment of this flooring material. Actually we suspect the total asbestos content of the floor may be much greater. We have no relationship with advertisers, products, or services discussed at this website. for a more-complete understanding of the same question and our answer that you'll find there. Stanton, .F., et al., National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 506: 143-151, Pott, F., Staub-Reinhalf Luft 38, 486-490 (1978) cited by McCrone. I can guess at the white substance but the floor tile should be treated as presumed to contain asbestos. One of the reasons manufacturers liked vinyl is that lighter colored flooring was easier to produce when you don't start with (black) asphalt. They're not plastic-yif you know what I mean. Above: a 1949 Linoleum floral pattern rug from reader Robinson. Thank you for any information you may be able to share. We are not certain of the manufacturer of the tiles shown here, and we publish them here to invite feedback from other readers. On many occasions I've come across 1960s-1970s 6 or 8 inch plastic floor tiles, mainly black colour, which chip off easily when removed. And while 9x9 floor tiles were common in the 50's and 60's there were indeed 12x12 floor tiles being produced and installed when your home was built. Asbestos related? Eri,Thank you so much for your very nice note. Hillerdal, Gunnar, J. Lee, A. Blomkvist, Anna Rask-Andersen, M. Uddenfeldt, Hemin Koyi, and E. Rasmussen. Photo ID guide to reader-submitted 1970's Asbestos-Containing floor tiles: This article provides photographs of 1970's floor tiles & flooring identification requests to help identify flooring that contains asbestos. Asbestos is safe and legal to remain in homes or public buildings as long as the asbestos 1960 - 1969 Armstrong Excelon Floor Vinyl Plastic Asbestos Floor Tiles, 9" x 9" & beginning in 1960 available in 12" x 12" size you'll see some similar but not matching patterns such as the Coda Bisque design or Nice Gold design. CORKSTYLE floor tiles - vinyl asbestos tiles that resemble cork flooring. Please re-post the image if you can. First, why do I call this an "asphalt-asbestos" floor tile rather than "vinyl-asbestos" or just "vinyl" floor tile? Dr. McCrone literally "wrote the book" on asbestos identification procedures which formed As you may have seen, you can often find a match in the ID-library of asbestos flooring beginning Colors: Feature Strips and Insets solid color vinyl-asbestos flooring were sold in 1" x 24" c 1/8" gauge; also "die cuts" 18" x 18" solid color tiles, Also see KENTILE DIE CUT & THEME FLOOR TILES, Colors: (Black 790, White 791, Red 792, Yellow 793, Green 794, Brown 795) (See the strip guide at 1956, also see this installed SOLID TILE & FEATURE STRIP FLOORING EXAMPLE using the same image as was still sold in 1971.). - 5 easy steps that can help you make a reasonable guess at whether or not the floor you ask about contains asbestos. Kits come with instructions on how to collect the sample and include disposable gloves and a dust mask to wear during collection. Also One or two broken floor tiles in my experience is not going to produce even a measurable level of Airborne asbestos but as the floor continues to deteriorate and in particular if it's breaking up in normal use then it does need to be addressed. Angie take a look at the simple questions at DOES THIS FLOOR CONTAIN ASBESTOS? Short of having a sample of the flooring tested, you can make a reasonable *guess* at whether or not your floor contains asbestos by answering the few easy questions found at Dr. McCrone literally "wrote the book" on asbestos identification procedures which formed the basis for current work by asbestos identification laboratories. Details about asbestos in this marble-chip resilient flooring are. 816, 845 filed Feb 17, 1967. Questions & answers or comments about how to identify asbestos-containing flooring materials and what to do when asbestos-containing floor tiles or sheet flooring are found in a building. they are damaged and breaking peeling apart. Where It Is Located Due to their durability, asbestos tiles are often found in high-traffic spaces such as hallways and kitchens. We are planning to remove it ASAP but how worried should we be that this is in fact asbestos? Also we don't know if the lab is looking only for characteristic and comparatively large asbestos fibers or if the procedure also detects shorts or fines of asbestos widely used as filler in asphalt-asbestos and vinyl-asbestos floor tile. Please re-post the image if you can. Vinyl flooring containing asbestos comes in a wide variety of colours and patterns. And of course only a certified asbestos test lab can say with certainty the tile asbestos composition. See CERAMIC TILE, ASBESTOS / LEAD? 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Note: appearance of your Comment below may be delayed: if your comment contains an image, photograph, web link, or text that looks to the software as if it might be a web link, your posting will appear after it has been approved by a moderator. - 5 easy questions to tell if your FLOOR probably contains asbestos - In Theophrastus, On Stones, from around 300 BC, there is a reference to a material that is thought to be asbestos. New vinyl, laminate flooring, hardwood, engineered floating flooring, and carpeting can all be successfully installed over asbestos tiles. It that a safe alternative to removing? On 2021-12-11 Youll pay $3 to $5 per asbestos disposal bag, which is recommended for safe disposal. I can't make out much from the photo of the back surface of a floor tile (above right) though on some tiles we may find text or numbers that help trace the floor's origin. Solidly built with oak flooring throughout, except kitchen, full and 1/2 baths, which are sheet asbestos vinyl. Im not sure what it is made of. We have tiles like the top ones. I just purchased a house built in 1961, the kitchen, den and main living room all have what looks to be asbestos tile. However, though it's reasonable to treat such flooring as presumed to contain asbestos, without an expert test one cannot be certain of the floor's asbestos content. @Alicia Barnett, Get site. The flooring is pattern I have seen posted by several readers, one referring to it as "Pebble Peoples Floor Tile". Does vinyl get rigid? Below we provide an extensive photo-dictionary of resilient flooring, floor tiles, and sheet flooring, with focus on older floor coverings that are known to contain asbestos. Before taking a sample of your flooring tiles, call your local building authority. at ASBESTOS FLOOR TILE ID REQUESTS 1960's. On 2017-03-17 by (mod) - Kentiles made during the end of the company's life, in . I'll add your photo to the online examples, as I don't think ever published the green on black series asphalt asbestos floor tile series. However, we recently uncovered a significant amount of dust that was not cleaned out of a closet after this project. Asbestosis (a non-cancer respiratory disease caused by scarring of the lungs), Mesothelioma (cancer of the lining surrounding the lungs, heart, and abdomen). I'm buying a house and am worried about tiles which are curling and broken containing asbestos. Bottom line: Asbestos-containing sheet flooring in good condition in a residential environment is not a high risk of causing airborne asbestos hazards as the material is not friable. The white substance in your 2nd photo looks like tile mastic adhesive. Asbestos Identification, Walter C.McCrone, McCrone Research Institute, Chicago, IL.1987 ISBN 0-904962-11-3. materials are in good condition and the asbestos can not be released into the air. The last one specifically refers to a process that used asbestos - supporting my caveat. I might just assume that it contains asbestos and wear masks and gloves while cleaning and sealing. It's not a pattern that I've seen before. They aren't loose, but they make a sound when you walk over them which leads me to believe they aren't secure What would you suggest for them? Asbestos is safe and legal to remain in homes or public buildings as long as the asbestos Quite an eye-opener to all the terrible things Ive handled over the years!Be well,Thane IMAGE LOST by older version of Clark Van Oyens useful Comments code - now fixed. COMMENT BOXto submit photos of flooring to get help in identifying floor tiles or sheet flooring that might contain asbestos. " I live in Spain, in a house built in 1967, and I'm quite worried because I suspect that the floors of my house may contain asbestos. Asphalt asbestos and vinyl-asbestos floor tiles were produced in 9" x 9", 12" x 12", and even 18" x 18" as well as in decorative strips, and in thicknesses of 1/16", 3/32", and 1/8", also in 0.08 gauge.