Q. Our home has old linoleum in the kitchen and anteroom that I would like to abolish and replace, or, if the attic is decent, refinish the wood. What are the dangers of asbestos? We’ve lived actuality 33 years, so who knows how old it is.
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A. Asbestos is a accepted carcinogen and should be handled by accomplished professionals. There are abounding items in earlier homes that accommodate asbestos, but linoleum about does not abatement into that category.
However, 8-inch attic tiles frequently acclimated in earlier kitchens and bathrooms best acceptable accommodate asbestos and the cement that was acclimated for both the attic tiles and linoleum may accommodate asbestos fibers.
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Asbestos was, and still is, a advantageous fire-proof artefact and the fibers of asbestos were congenital into abundant articles to add compactness backbone and blaze resistance. A account of abounding of these articles can be begin on the Environmental Protection Agency website,
epa.gov/asbestos/pubs/ashome.html
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If the asbestos-containing actual is in a acceptable condition, there is no charge to abolish or afflict it. Asbestos becomes a bloom affair alone aback the fibers are abashed and become airborne.
I accept the admiration to restore the floors to their aboriginal finish, but the costs may be added than one wants to bear. You charge to booty a sample of the cement beneath the linoleum to a certified laboratory. Contact a bounded lab to get advice on how big a sample it needs and any procedures it suggests for demography the sample.
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Over the years, I accept been instructed to wet the areas for sampling so that the fibers are contained. In a bend of the allowance or in a closet, bedew the breadth area you appetite to booty a sample.
Pull aback the linoleum, bedew the apparent cement and, application a annealed knife brand or collapsed chisel, anxiously scrape a baby sample of the cement and abode it in a closed artificial bag. Deliver the sample to the lab, area you will accept to complete a “chain of custody” form.
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If the analysis is negative, you can abolish the linoleum and cement with a duke scraper.
If the sample is positive, accede encapsulating the linoleum with a new copse attic or a coat attic covering.
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Asbestos Backing On Linoleum
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