Sheet Vinyl Flooring Asbestos Paper Backing

Manufacturers often made this type of flooring with a friable asbestos backing which means mineral fibers are easily released into the air if the sheet flooring is disturbed or damaged.

Sheet vinyl flooring asbestos paper backing. Examples of armstrong linoleum flooring linowall wall covering. Using the utility knife and sufficient pressure to fully penetrate the thickness of the vinyl cut a piece of flooring approximately one by two feet. Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring poses a significantly greater asbestos exposure risk than floor tiles or wallpaper.

Never worked with asbestos before maybe i ll use a paper filter. If your sheet vinyl floor was installed with little or no adhesive you may be able to peel the flooring off with little disturbance of its asbestos backing. The backing of the vinyl sheet didn t crumble or anything like that but it did separate when i ripped the sheet off the floor.

The backing would be one suitable for use as a surface covering for example a felt perferably a rubber bonded asbestos backing a vinyl sheet backing a cellulosic felt or other backing which lendsitself to surface covering applications. Adding confusion to flooring terminology sheet vinyl flooring referred to in some product literature and other mateirals as vinyl flooring or sheet vinyl flooring contained asbestos containing backers that may have been solid vinyl sometimes containing asbestos that is typically white or cream colored or asphalt impregnated felt sometimes containing asbestos that is virtually always black in color but that may have been coated on its underside with red material possibly rubber.