![]() ![]() It's easy to install (snaps together) and you could probably do it yourself. He died of the disease before his trial, but the jury awarded 3.3 million for pain, suffering, loss of consortium and lost earnings to his wife and three children. If the tiles are not secure, then installing a new engineered wood floor on moisture barrier (polysheeting) on your "prepared" floor would be best, because you don't have to worry about the material "telegraphing" every defect through the new material. Ehret had developed the cancer after being exposed to asbestos in the companies’ vinyl flooring products for more than 20 years. Black mastic was frequently used by contractors and builders during the middle of the last century as an inexpensive flooring tile adhesive. Regardless, if the tiles are secured (solid) to the floor, then you could prepare the broken/missing tile areas and install a new material over it without pouring a new floor first. If you want safe, easy, economical EPA approved methods to seal asbestos flooring, try to apply high-quality adhesives to the black mastics. ![]() You can install a new floor covering without pouring a new floor. There are many problems pouring a concrete floor on an existing concrete floor (moisture issues, height issues at doorways if entire floor level is not done, reducing height in room, etc.) and I don't think it's necessary. I agree with you Inspector and leave them in place. So, you could test, but there isn't a necessity to do so. However, the mastic could be asbestos for either. If they are 12" x 12" then they probably are not asbestos. If the tiles are 9" x 9" then they are probably asbestos. Vinyl floors could have asbestos in the backing or adhesive. The room we want to cover is about 200 sqft. Asbestos ceiling tiles can also be encapsulated at the same price otherwise, complete removal costs between 5 and 15 per square foot. We're looking to just cover this area first as there are other areas (rooms) in the basement that is bare concrete the previous owners didn't bother to tile. We live in New England and a good part of the basement is above ground as there are windows that are a good 2 feet in height starting at the ground level. Relative humidity at most has been 60% usually 10%-15% higher than the 1st floor. There's never been standing water and I haven't seen any moisture other than some condensation on the water in pipe. A couple of chipped tiles in the center area. Some tiles are missing on two corners about 3'x3' areas each. The binder was some kind of black adhesive. The tiles are sitting right on top of the concrete. Does anyone know what we should use to try to encapsulate the tile better and provide ensured waterproofing? ![]() We want to put vinyl plank right on top of the tile. We have asbestos tile (or lead?, the inspector told my girlfriend not to remove it). ![]()
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