Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring poses a significantly greater asbestos exposure risk than floor tiles or wallpaper.
Asbestos sheet vinyl.
Vinyl sheet flooring comes in large pieces and is usually cut to the size of the room and laid down in one piece.
Mastic is a type of glue used to adhere tiles and vinyl flooring to the subfloor.
Some styles of armstrong vinyl corlon sheet flooring also included the asbestos free armofelt backer in addition to asbestos containing hydrocord.
The removal procedures described in this publication address the removal of asbestos backed sheet vinyl only if.
Possible signs of asbestos mastic include discoloration and an oily texture.
To identify a particular asphalt asbestos or vinyl asbestos floor tile pattern color start in the image group most likely to be the same age as your building.
Manufacturers often made this type of flooring with a friable asbestos backing which means asbestos fibres are easily released into the air if the sheet flooring is disturbed or damaged.
At asphalt based sheet flooring we report that some tests of red backed asphalt core vinyl sheet flooring found that the floor did not contain asbestos.
Asphalt core vinyl sheet flooring with a red coating on the floor underside provided by reader w t.
We also seen very small asphalt asbestos floor tiles in a 1 1 2 size bonded to a jute backer fabric.
Details of asbestos floor tile identification.
It also was installed over tongue and groove wood floors particleboard and plywood.
Vinyl sheet flooring known to contain asbestos known asbestos containing vinyl based sheet flooring.
Asbestos mastic will also always be black in color.
If your building was built before 1980 mastic mixed with asbestos may have been used to seal your tiles to the floor.
Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring poses a significantly greater asbestos exposure risk than floor tiles or wallpaper.
In north america if asphalt or vinyl floor tiles or sheet flooring were made or installed before 1986 treat the floor as presumed to contain asbestos.