Armstrong Vinyl Tiles Asbestos

Armstrong sheet flooring that matches the armstrong excelon swirl chip vinyl asbestos floor tile pattern released in 1968 and shown as a small tile image above.

Armstrong vinyl tiles asbestos.

No longer manufacturers resilient floors or adhesives that contain asbestos. Unlike many asbestos containing materials vinyl asbestos flooring is generally safe to be around. Accobest as 8073 gasketing material. Armstrong congoleum nairn ever wear kentile kenflex montgomery ward and sears roebuck are some of the brand names of vinyl tile from that period that might contain asbestos.

Armstrong vinyl asbestos floor tile photo id catalogs 1951 1986. Straight grain 12 x 12 standard vinyl asbestos floor tiles from armstrong were sold in fawn white 56759 as shown above also in iriquiois tan. Armstrong produced the excelon tile series beginning with a plastic asbestos floor tile series in 1954 referring to the product as vinyl plastic asbestos floor tiles beginning in 1955 and vinyl asbestos tiles from 1957 to 1980. These products placed many construction workers at risk of asbestos exposure.

Travertex 12 x 12 floor tiles by armstrong sold in color harvest ivory 51137. But that changes as soon as you decide to remove it. The information provided below represents the last date for each floor product category that armstrong produced containing asbestos. Accopac ad 8024 asbestos paper.

Like floor tiles vinyl sheet flooring is a long lasting and economical material and it also offers more aesthetic options to suit a homeowner s taste. Our reproduction of vinyl asbestos floor tile patterns and colors below selected representative images of each style or floor tile identification pattern in which tiles were produced. This page provides armstrong floor tile dentification photographs product names styles colors and vinyl asbestos floor patterns and colors for asbestos containing floor tile products made between 1980 and 1988. Within each pattern there were various colors available as well.

Photo guide to asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles 1980 1988. Notable asbestos products manufactured by armstrong include. Click to enlarge any image we think that the sheet flooring in these photos is probably of similar age. Accobest as 474 gasketing material.

Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed. For much of its history the company included asbestos in insulation cement tiles and vinyl flooring.