Sheet Vinyl Flooring Asbestos Paper Backing

Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring can be more dangerous to remove than tiles if proper precautions are not practiced.

Sheet vinyl flooring asbestos paper backing.

Make sure to cut all the way down to the floor so your sample includes flooring backing and adhesive. Examples of armstrong linoleum flooring linowall wall covering. Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed. Remove a piece of floor molding or a floor heat register to access an edge of the sheet vinyl flooring.

The house i live in was supposedly built in1990. 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. With a utility knife and while wearing rubber gloves cut a one inch long 1 8th inch wide sliver of sheet vinyl flooring. The backing would be one suitable for use as a surface covering for example a felt perferably a rubber bonded asbestos backing a vinyl sheet backing a cellulosic felt or other backing which lendsitself to surface covering applications.

It is sheet vinyl with a paper type backing. He said that asbestos in flooring was more in the 1950s and thought that the sheet vinyl was probably a replacement floor anyway. My father wasn t particularly concerned about this when i asked him. The backing of the vinyl sheet didn t crumble or anything like that but it did separate when i ripped the sheet off the floor.

Oct 22 2015 dennis said. We are told that the paper layer can contain from 40 to 70 percent asbestos. Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring has two layers a top layer of vinyl and a bottom layer made from paper that contains asbestos. I started removing old flooring in the bathroom when upon an internet search on how to i started seeing articles about asbestos in vinyl flooring.

Probability of asbestos in sheet flooring in a 1990 home. My concern is that there may be asbestos behind the sheet vinyl perhaps in the paper backing or glue adhesive. One armstrong world industries vinyl resilient sheet flooring product thought to have been installed in 1967 was tested in a lab and found to contain 70 percent asbestos. 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.

Never worked with asbestos before maybe i ll use a paper filter. Sheet vinyl flooring should be removed to avoid or minimize disturbance of the asbestos containing backing.