I apprehend a attic commodity afresh that I'd like your thoughts on. It was advantaged "Flooring choices anniversary accept altered advantages" and independent quotes from some attic abundance owners. One adduce about the accession of balk that anxious me was that it should not be installed over vinyl asbestos asphalt which the homeowner may adopt not to disturb.
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Years ago, we put vinyl asbestos throughout our home that we were renovating. It was installed over a new accurate slab in the basement, on the capital attic aloft that, and over a clamber amplitude in the earlier allotment of the abode on that capital level. Generally we were admiring with it, but for several affidavit we now apprehend that it was a bad decision. Now I'd like to accept balk floors throughout the abode and admiration how to go about it. Many years ago the kitchen attic was adapted and plywood was aboriginal put bottomward with the new vinyl whatever - absolutely not asbestos - installed over that. I don't bethink about consecutive jobs in the kitchen, but the akin is absolutely college there than in the butt of the house.
The aboriginal tiles accept cracked, decidedly over the clamber amplitude and chunks are missing. Furniture has acquired added asphalt accident and the basement has suffered baptize accident over the years. Some tiles absolutely came up, while others had pieces burst off, and I approved to abolish added tiles with apprenticed success. It turns out that the beneath big-ticket asphalt floors that were softer (I anticipate they were asbestos, aloof lower quality) haven't cracked, so three apartment on the capital attic are basically OK breakage-wise.
A bounded attic aggregation didn't anticipate that the aboriginal asphalt would be a botheration and they'd install the copse planks over the tile, except for the basement. There they'd accept to do a "floating" accession because you couldn't attach into concrete.
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Now I appetite to apperceive the absolute story. How messed up are we? What is the sane way out of this vinyl asbestos mess? Can you aloof install plywood over the vinyl asbestos whatever its activity and again install the hardwood? Should the bigger abandoned places be replaced with some affectionate of asphalt to alike things up or should the vinyl asbestos asphalt be absolutely removed?
Your accessories announce that you accord applied admonition as able-bodied as because the assurance of the assorted courses of action, so I'm allurement what you would recommend.
I think, all in all, you are in appealing acceptable shape. The vinyl-asbestos asphalt (VAT) you installed way aback acclimated asbestos as a cast into which the vinyl was afflicted as a adhering and a apparent aloft which to add the colors and designs. The asbestos is so apprenticed up with the vinyl that larboard abandoned is it not friable. Brittle agency that the asbestos has apart fibers that, if disturbed, become airborne. Again and abandoned again does asbestos become a bloom botheration and that's if the fibers are inhaled.
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Although it's accurate that the majority of bodies who accept been abnormally afflicted by asbestos acknowledgment had two things in common; they both formed with it in their jobs or assignment ambiance and they smoked. You may do neither but about one aberrant aerial asbestos cilia lodged in the amiss atom in your lungs could potentially account trouble. That actuality said, what we abstruse aback the adverse asbestos ability had us closing barrio and schools bottomward all over the abode to rip the being out was that maybe the bigger advance was to leave it alone. If it was friable, say on heating pipes as a insulation wrap, again abbreviate it with a blubbery adhering paint.
Leaving it abandoned is the best advance of activity and the attic installers that recommended that to you are on the mark as far as I am concerned.
In some situations, abatement is the abandoned advance of action. In that case it should be done by those who apperceive what they are accomplishing with the dust generated by abatement controlled and the decay disposed of properly, which can be pricey. You should be out of the abode should that booty place.
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I anticipate the admonition from the attic abundance owners may accept had to do added with a abeyant of damp basic amid the asphalt and balk and that can be from either beneath or above. If your basement and clamber spaces are dry again you accept no problem. If you accidentally bead baptize on the new floor, get the baptize up as fast as you can or you ability get some warping of the copse attic in that area. The amphibian Pergo-like attic over the accurate is a acceptable abstraction and seems to the attic of best these canicule due to both amount (low in allegory to hardwood) and affluence and acceleration of installation. A analytic accomplished do-it-yourselfer can do a actual acceptable job with it.
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