This article describes sheet flooring products known to contain significant levels of asbestos.
Vinyl sheet flooring asbestos identification.
Asbestos containing sheet flooring or resilient flooring product identification.
The asbestos floor tile identification articles in this series illustrate that with the combination of design appearance and an idea of floor tile age many asbestos containing floor tiles or sheet flooring products can be reliably identified even before confirmation by a test by a certified asbestos testing laboratory.
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.
Vinyl floor tiles or sheet flooring were made or installed before 1986 should be treated as a floor covering presumed to contain asbestos or else have a sample tested and report the results here please.
I don t recognize that exact flooring pattern jack and am guessing it s an early 1980s vinyl sheet flooring.
Many of the colors and patterns of asphalt asbestos or vinyl asbestos floor tiles were manufactured over many years and may appear in more than one of the floor tile photo collections listed by date range here.
Sheet flooring without asbestos.
Vinyl asbestos floor tile identification photos.
This article describes sheet flooring products known to contain significant levels of asbestos.
How to identify types of resilient or sheet flooring.
Vinyl asbestos floor tile dimensions.
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.