Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed.
Asbestos sheet vinyl years manufactured.
For about 35 years flooring companies included asbestos when they manufactured the vinyl tiles.
Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring has two layers a top layer of vinyl and a bottom layer made from paper that contains asbestos.
Asbestos is a mineral that lends fireproofing qualities to any substance it is mixed with.
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.
Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring can be more dangerous to remove than tiles if proper precautions are not practiced.
Details about the history of congoleum nairn flooring are at congoleum flooring history and at floor tile history ingredients.
There s a good chance they contain asbestos because most flooring tiles manufactured during this period did.
Asbestos was used in vinyl wallpaper from the 1920s and in the vinyl floor tiles and sheet flooring that rose to prominence in the 1950s.
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.
But the flooring companies aim wasn t so much to make the floor tiles fireproof as it was to make the tiles more durable.
Dry asbestos particles are lighter than air wet ones are less prone to become air borne.
Photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1900 1986.
Stain proof fireproof stylish and affordable vinyl products strengthened through the inclusion asbestos in their manufacture were a very popular choice in many new zealand houses.
Asbestos has also been used in a wide range of manufactured goods mostly in building materials roofing shingles ceiling and floor tiles paper products and asbestos cement products friction products automobile clutch brake and transmission parts heat resistant fabrics packaging gaskets and coatings.
Congoleum nairn was established in 1886 and presently headquartered in mercerville nj u s produced resilient sheet flooring vinyl asbestos floor tiles in patterns such as their congoleum nair romanaire pattern.
We describe sources of asbestos in older forms of sheet flooring including felt backed flooring rubber backed flooring and vinyl cushion backed resilient flooring products.
This article provides a guide to identifying asphalt asbestos flooring 1917 ca 1960 vinyl asbestos floor tile ca 1952 1986.
Asphalt asbestos plastic asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles were sold in 6 x6 9 x 9 and in some years 12 x 12 sizes.
This article describes sheet flooring products known to contain significant levels of asbestos.
We also seen very small asphalt asbestos floor tiles in a 1 1 2 size bonded to a jute backer fabric.
Asbestos containing sheet flooring or resilient flooring product identification.
