A vinyl sheet flooring that looks like the above has a high chance of asbestos.
Identify asbestos vinyl sheet flooring pictures.
We describe sources of asbestos in older forms of sheet flooring including felt backed flooring rubber backed flooring and vinyl cushion backed resilient flooring products.
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.
But before about 1978 in products that looked like this same material asbestos fibers were used as a strengthen material on vinyl sheet flooring backing.
Asbestos containing sheet flooring or resilient flooring product identification.
Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed.
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This article describes sheet flooring products known to contain significant levels of asbestos.
If your building was built before 1980 mastic mixed with asbestos may have been used to seal your tiles to the floor.
As with any asbestos containing material acm the first step to finding asbestos in linoleum sheet flooring and vinyl tiles is.
If black tar is adhering to the vinyl it is almost a 100 asbestos containing fiber product.
Possible signs of asbestos mastic include discoloration and an oily texture.