Asbestos in flooring?

James_N

keystone wrote: »

It may or may not contain asbestos. Its probably lino rather than vinyl.

Your best bet is to stop stressing, leave it alone, put the carpet down and forget about it. Yes really.

Cue a flaming for me from the asbestos hysteria corner who will be along in a minute to worry you to death.

Cheers

In most domestic situations, unless you HAVE to fiddle with things that might have asbestos, you are best leaving it alone, and this poster is entirely right.

Nikiya

In case it is useful for anybody: after contacting lots of companies which charged a small fortune to come and pick up a sample, or advised that it was better to pay them to do the whole removal job, I found one called "Cornerstone Environmental". It seems to be run by one very helpful chap, who answered all my queries. I ended up sending a sample collected by myself. The test cost only 25 pounds and I had the results in a couple of days. Luckily they were negative and we could go ahead and rip off the old rubbish which is what we wanted to do. Hope this helps someone else in a similar situation.

ed110220

Nikiya wrote: »

In case it is useful for anybody: after contacting lots of companies which charged a small fortune to come and pick up a sample, or advised that it was better to pay them to do the whole removal job, I found one called "Cornerstone Environmental". It seems to be run by one very helpful chap, who answered all my queries. I ended up sending a sample collected by myself. The test cost only 25 pounds and I had the results in a couple of days. Luckily they were negative and we could go ahead and rip off the old rubbish which is what we wanted to do. Hope this helps someone else in a similar situation.

Without wishing to be rude, in my opinion that's 25 pounds wasted as even if they did contain some asbestos it would be so encased in/bonded to the other material of the tile you'd have a job getting it airborne if you tried.

I'd leave them in place and not worry about them, or if they need to be taken up for new flooring do it and take them down to the tip without a second thought.

My house has an asbestos roof so I'm pretty relaxed about asbestos - no need to worry if you're not drilling or sawing it.

Nikiya

Well, analyzing a piece of the material seems to be common practice and again and as I said several times, it was not tiles, but a sheet of lino.
I already know asbestos left in place is OK, but we wanted to remove it and have already done so.

Hintza

Generally no need to worry anyway. I personally would have had the stuff in a skip in a jiffy with no fannying around.

muckybutt

Contrary to what has been said you have done the right thing in getting the material tested, it has given YOU piece of mind.

Thanks for the update btw :T