How To Identify Asbestos Vinyl Flooring. It is always safer to assume vinyl materials manufactured before 1980 contain asbestos. Here is an asbestos floor tile identification key sorted by primary flooring color.
Beige black blue brown tan wood tone gray green red white yellow etc. Color photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1900 -1986 using dominant floor tile color to identify the probable asbestos-containing floor tile brand pattern and age. Vinyl flooring and wallpaper that contain asbestos cannot be recognized on sight.
So removing old linoleum or vinyl flooring may come as a surprise to some homeowners when they see smears of some type of black adhesive between the tiles and the subfloor.
To identify a particular asphalt-asbestos or vinyl-asbestos floor tile pattern color start in the image group most likely to be the same age as your building. Asbestos Project Management has an at-home testing kit you can use and send in the samples. Color photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1900 -1986 using dominant floor tile color to identify the probable asbestos-containing floor tile brand pattern and age. Here is an asbestos floor tile identification key sorted by primary flooring color.
