Sunday, February 21, 2010

Asbestos in linoleum floor adhesive?

I'm remodeling my bathroom and want to pull up part of the vinyl linoleum floor. I've heard that the adhesives used to glue this type of flooring down used to contain asbestos so I want to be very careful (especially with a 7mo pregnant wife in the house). Any chances they were still using asbestos adhesives in the mid '90s? My house is a tract house built in southern California in 1995. Thanks.Asbestos in linoleum floor adhesive?
no chance at allAsbestos in linoleum floor adhesive?
There is almost no chance at that age, but the ONLY way to know is to have both the linoleum and the glue tested by a local lab. Take a quarter size piece of the linoleum with the backing in a ziplock bag and scrape up some of the glue in a separate ziplock bag for the lab to test. If you were a company doing this repair in a commercial building you would have to have it tested. Age means nothing under the current federal regs.
I am a home inspector, mold, lead, radon, and asbestos risk assessor, The chance is very low if the home was built in the 90's if the tiles are 8 or 9 inch the chance is higher but 12 inch tiles are almost never asbestos. understand anything is possible if they purchased any materials from mexico they still have lead based paint and asbestos there. some may say im just prejudiced but 3 years ago a contractor in chicago drove a truck to mexico to bring back some drywall and got a great sale on some paint ... he ended up causing lead Poison to 12 children i tested the paint in the building and it was lead based paint


so it may be worth testing if you think that this is possible. (ps la labs, and emsl labs both test gross samples of asbestos for very good prices simply cut a piece of the tile ans send it to them)
No chance of it containing any asbestos. Rip it up and do not even whisper ';asbestos'; or some government punk will be there in a spacesuit! The use of asbestos was stopped long before the 1990s and it was never in the adhesive.
not a chance 1) asbestos was added to things to protect from fire - like kitchen ceilings 2) asbestos hasn't been used in residential homes since the 70's
no


asbestos wasn't,t used in glues,


and it was stopped being used in the 50,s in tile

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