Pictures Asbestos Floor Tiles

Photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1900 1986.

Pictures asbestos floor tiles. Identification photographs product names styles colors and vinyl asbestos floor patterns and colors for asbestos containing floor tile products made between about 1930 and 1986. Testing found 3 chrysotile asbestos in this floor tile sample. However as a favor to future owners of your house make some note of the fact that asbestos tiles are under the new flooring. Discoloration an oily discoloration of the tiles in your home might indicate that they contain asbestos.

Photo id guide to reader submitted 1960 s asbestos containing floor tiles. Asbestos floor tiles were manufactured in three sizes. Asbestos in floor tiles. This article series includes a photo gallery of pictures of floor coverings submitted for identification along with comments on findings recommendations asbestos content.

That said it can be difficult to get a level surface for the new floor especially if the old tiles have chipped away. This article provides a guide to identifying asphalt asbestos flooring 1917 ca 1960 vinyl asbestos floor tile ca 1952 1986. This article provides photographs of 1960 s floor tiles flooring identification requests to help identify flooring that contains asbestos. That way no one will be endangered years from now when they start to rip up the new flooring and find asbestos tiles beneath.

You could also cover the tiles with new vinyl flooring linoleum or even ceramic tiles. 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. Armstrong congoleum nairn linoleum lincrusta modern self adhesive floor tiles floors tiles 1900 1986 armstrong floor tiles also see vinyl asbestos floor tile photos 1952. Tiles that are disintegrating should be handled with.

At above left is a 12 x 12 vinyl asbestos floor tile found in a home built in 1969. See armstrong floor tile list 1969. In many cases installing a new floor over the tiles encapsulates the asbestos fibers and is an acceptable way to manage the material. Tile size asphalt asbestos plastic asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles during this period were sold in 9 x9 12 x 12 and in some years 18 x 18 sizes and were quite a bit thicker than most of the modern tiles.

In floor tiles asbestos is used primarily for its insulation properties and its ability to resist fire in addition to the tiles themselves a layer of mastic a type of adhesive below the tiles is also likely to contain asbestos. Armstrong s seneca white image it is likely that this is an asbestos containing floor tile. 9 x9 12 x12 and 18 x18. Sanding sawing drilling or tearing the tiles out however can release fibers into the air.

Asphalt is one of. Asbestos floor tiles will not release toxic fibers and pose a health risk unless they are disturbed.