Asbestos Carpet Padding

My family decided to remove the carpet that was in our kitchen that was built in the 60s.

Asbestos carpet padding.

Asbestos carpet underlay. The people most at risk from the asbestos fibres in hessian bags are those who worked in the recycling environment. You are exposed to more asbestos particulates walking down a city street simply from bus brake pads carpet padding never had asbestos. Under the carpet was vynal tile.

I have allergies and don t care for carpet. Precautions should always be taken when disturbing or removing old carpet and underlay. We were completely unaware of asbestos and the dangers it causes. There are two kinds of mastic associated with carpets the brown mastic and the black asphaltic mastic.

An inspection for asbestos materials must be done prior to the carpet removal. It is unlikely for asbestos fibres to be found in carpet underlay. Vinyl asbestos tiles vat asbestos was mixed into the tile material to add tensile strength. What does asbestos carpet underlay look like.

I think the guy from the company is an idiot. Should asbestos materials be found under the carpet there are several options. Adhesives and mastics asbestos was mixed into the adhesives to make them flow better. One of the reasons you need to bring professionals in to test for asbestos is because it can be hard to identify by looks alone.

Plan and budget for an asbestos abatement to remove the carpet and asbestos flooring materials. He then told us about how it could be asbestos. Asbestos tile under carpet i m currently removing old carpet in my dinning room and kitchen and found that i have asbestos tile underneath. The only chance you had of any asbestos would be in an old floor tile and even then the tiles contained less than 1 asbestos.

An exception of asbestos contaminated carpet padding has been reported in australia 3 creating a public stir but a subsequent investigation by jim dodd director of environmental health reported that the possibility of asbestos fibres being in carpet underlay was very low. In most cases the dangerous underlay is a brown material that looks like a woven sack but many older underlays have this look. Carpet and padding was probably installed 20 30 years ago. Padding is deteriorated and stuck to floor.

Carpet mastic is often postive often times mastic or glue as it is refered to sometimes may contain asbestos even though the carpets themselves are negative for asbestos. Leave the carpet in place or cover over the existing carpet. Someone else removed it while i was in the house with the ac on is it safe to just mop and wax floors or must i recarpet. Which we kept until we finally called a flooring company.

It crumbles and has to be scraped up.