Armstrong Sheet Vinyl Flooring Asbestos

The information provided below represents the last date for each floor product category that armstrong produced containing asbestos.

Armstrong sheet vinyl flooring asbestos.

Single solid surface makes it an excellent choice for moisture prone rooms like kitchens and baths. Some styles of armstrong vinyl corlon sheet flooring also included the asbestos free armofelt backer in addition to asbestos containing hydrocord. Vinyl sheet flooring comes in large pieces and is usually cut to the size of the room and laid down in one piece. Some sheet flooring or resilient flooring also contained asbestos as did floor tile mastics.

Asbestos vinyl sheet flooring poses a significantly greater asbestos exposure risk than floor tiles or wallpaper. Vinyl sheet is a resilient flooring that people often use as an alternative to natural stone ceramic tile or even hardwood. It comes in a roll that is cut to size. 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.

Asphalt asbestos and vinyl asbestos floor tiles were produced in 9 x 9 12 x 12 and even 18 x 18 as well as in decorative strips and in thicknesses of 1 16 3 32 and 1 8 also in 0 08 gauge. Vinyl flooring lets you transform any room with gorgeously realistic and durable designs inspired by wood stone ceramic and your own imagination. 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. Salvador white black 57170 salvador yellow 57171 salvador green 57173.

Resilient sheet flooring containing asbestos was also produced finding wide use as early as 1968. See marble chip pattern flooring asbestos. Salvador 12 x 12 vinyl asbestos floor tiles sold as colors. Types of vinyl flooring we have multiple categories of vinyl flooring which together include tiles planks and vinyl sheet as well as products with enhanced cushioning and ultra dent scratch.

No longer manufacturers resilient floors or adhesives that contain asbestos. One armstrong world industries vinyl resilient sheet flooring product thought to have been installed in 1967 was tested in a lab and found to contain 70 percent asbestos. Please note these dates reflect armstrong s last manufacture not the products sale or installation. 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.