Parquet Floor Tiles Asbestos

Asbestos in floor tiles.

Parquet floor tiles asbestos. Intact asbestos tiles are not a major risk and can in fact be left in place and covered with other materials such as carpet vinyl linoleum or concrete. Tiles that are disintegrating should be handled with. Common in homes built in the 20th century black mastic was used as an adhesive for ceramic tile linoleum and other flooring materials. I recently pulled up some parquet flooring in my house built 1960 s.

Asbestos floor tiles were manufactured in three sizes. In floor tiles asbestos is used primarily for its insulation properties and its ability to resist fire. 9 x9 12 x12 and 18 x18. 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.

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. Resilient sheet flooring containing asbestos was also produced finding wide use as early as 1968. During conversation with a family friend they mentioned that the glue i described to them may have been black mastic and contained asbestos. Vinyl tiles with asbestos are all 12 12 or 9 9 tiles with asbestos.

Asbestos floor tiles will not release toxic fibers and pose a health risk unless they are disturbed. It came up fairly easy. Sanding sawing drilling or tearing the tiles out however can release fibers into the air.