Identifying Asbestos Vinyl Sheet Flooring

Check the sheet flooring material to identify linoleum or to check for sheet flooring likely to contain asbestos this topic has been moved to sheet flooring inspect test.

Identifying asbestos vinyl sheet flooring.

Guides for identifying specifc floor products that do or do not contain asbestos see asbestos flooring identification guide index for a complete index to id guides for asbestos containing flooring. Click to enlarge any image. Over time asbestos sheets may have been replaced with asbestos free alternatives but if they are particularly old and look weathered they are likely to contain asbestos cement. Asbestos sheeting identification can be presumed by getting an idea of how long ago the sheeting was installed before or after the 1990s and whether it was ever.

The vinyl asbestos floor tile and asphalt asbestos and sheet flooring asbestos photo catalog became so huge that the file was slow to load and unwieldy so we broke the catalog into segments by year range. See vinyl asbestos floor tile packaging. There we explain that simple visual inspection can often distinguish among linoleum jute or burlap backed asphalt saturated felt backed flooring vinyl sheet flooring white or light colored backing and cork simple visual appearance. Historical information about the dates of flooring.

As with any asbestos containing material acm the first step to finding asbestos in linoleum sheet flooring and vinyl tiles is.