Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - Asbestos Floor Follow Up
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01-20-01, 12:08 AM
Wow, thanks for the help (and some follow up)
Thanks to everyone for their useful information. I pulled up a small part of my floor to see what was under it and what it looks like is. . .
1) The original hardwood floor (in a kitchen?)
2) Some really ugly green lenolium tiles (this is what concerned me)
3) A 1/4 inch plywood subfloor
4) Normal harmless (however yellow) lenoleum.
The suspest tiles can be snapped very easily (more like tile) and they are glued to the floor with a black tar-like glue that is not very sticky any more and also very easy to break.
The problem with puting the new floor over the exsisting floor is that I already have about a 1/2 inch step from any room to the kitchen and putting another layer of 1/4 inch ply and a layer of lenolium would be too much. So I'm pretty sure in order to complete the new floor installation CORRECTLY I need to remove the subfloor and start over.
I'm not really sure how old layer #2 is but I'm guessing pre 70's so I am going to assume the worst. Any more information would be helpful. Feel free to e-mail me directly if you have any more information (the demolition was scheduled to begin Saturday). Thanks again ncasper@uswest.net
Thanks to everyone for their useful information. I pulled up a small part of my floor to see what was under it and what it looks like is. . .
1) The original hardwood floor (in a kitchen?)
2) Some really ugly green lenolium tiles (this is what concerned me)
3) A 1/4 inch plywood subfloor
4) Normal harmless (however yellow) lenoleum.
The suspest tiles can be snapped very easily (more like tile) and they are glued to the floor with a black tar-like glue that is not very sticky any more and also very easy to break.
The problem with puting the new floor over the exsisting floor is that I already have about a 1/2 inch step from any room to the kitchen and putting another layer of 1/4 inch ply and a layer of lenolium would be too much. So I'm pretty sure in order to complete the new floor installation CORRECTLY I need to remove the subfloor and start over.
I'm not really sure how old layer #2 is but I'm guessing pre 70's so I am going to assume the worst. Any more information would be helpful. Feel free to e-mail me directly if you have any more information (the demolition was scheduled to begin Saturday). Thanks again ncasper@uswest.net
01-20-01, 06:31 AM
The black tar like backing you speak of is indeed asbestos this was a very common "mastic" used back then--don't be so sure about the lino either!
camachinist
01-21-01, 01:31 PM
Hope you'll update us as to how the demolition went...
It's possible that your "hardwood" original floor is southern yellow pine...I've seen a few floors made out of that out here...kinda rustic...they didn't sand everything smooth and polyurethane it...
Usually depends on what the most plentiful source of wood is in a locality...back then only rich people had lumber and building materials imported or transported long distances...
Pat
It's possible that your "hardwood" original floor is southern yellow pine...I've seen a few floors made out of that out here...kinda rustic...they didn't sand everything smooth and polyurethane it...
Usually depends on what the most plentiful source of wood is in a locality...back then only rich people had lumber and building materials imported or transported long distances...
Pat
01-22-01, 11:35 AM
Hey Pat,
There was wood underneth the liminate but I found some areas that were very bad and some big gaps where some walls used to be so I decided to leave the questionable floor alone, only pull out the plywood supfloor and put in a new vinyl floor. It will at least look 100 times better than the 20 year old yellow floor that is in there now. Thanks for all the replys
--Nick
There was wood underneth the liminate but I found some areas that were very bad and some big gaps where some walls used to be so I decided to leave the questionable floor alone, only pull out the plywood supfloor and put in a new vinyl floor. It will at least look 100 times better than the 20 year old yellow floor that is in there now. Thanks for all the replys
--Nick