Asphalt Asbestos Flooring

Asphalt asbestos floor tiles aat refers to resilient flooring that was asphalt based.

Asphalt asbestos flooring. Porcelain floors are extremely versatile and durable with tile sizes up to 24 inches available for a clean modern look with fewer grout lines. 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. Asphalt tiles are generally resilient and last for many years. Asphalt based asbestos floor tiles and later plastic or vinyl based asbestos flooring were popular in the u s.

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. Asphalt asbestos floor tiles were popular in the u s. 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. Asphalt is one of the main materials used for the manufacturing of asbestos floor tiles and leakages of the oil incorporated in it can occur causing the color of the tiles to fade.

Some of the flooring tiles have come off and you see thick black adhesive underneath. Some sheet flooring or resilient flooring also contained asbestos as did floor tile mastics. If your floor can be thicker without causing problems install a porcelain floor over the old asbestos. Asphalt asbestos floor tiles were produced at first in dark colors using a heavy asphalt binder combined with a very high percentage of asbestos filler fibers.

Another typical mixture cited by rosato contained 70 asbestos fiber. Asbestos found in the vinyl floor tiles at the toh tv project house means a state licensed and well protected abatement crew must do the removal. Between the 1920s and 1960s asbestos fiber fillers were used in asphalt tiles. Some asbestos containing flooring products were manufactured we estimate as early as the late 1920 s.

Photo by russell kaye i m told that the old vinyl floor tiles in the basement of our 1950 house contain asbestos and that i should not try to remove the tiles but cover them with wall to wall carpeting. Definition composition of vinyl based asbestos resilient floor tiles. Some of the flooring tiles have come off and you see thick. From 1920 into the 1960 s.

These tiles may contain various coloring fillers and synthetic fibers which the asphalt binds together.