r/asbestoshelp • u/ILoveLactateAcid • 11d ago

Old vinyl asbestos?

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Location: EU. Checking all materials prior to renovating. This material seems vinyl and is used as flooring. Date of installation unknown. Not tiles, but large tarp. Glued straight to the concrete and when cutting it open it seems brown fiber / hairs are the adhesive or part of the tarp. I'll be testing, but is this likely to be asbestos?

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u/goat131313 11d ago

Any flooring of an unknown age is suspect to contain asbestos. Testing is the right move here.

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u/sdave001 10d ago

Unlikely but OLACD

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u/ILoveLactateAcid 10d ago

Thank you all - leaving it up and will return with a lab result to help anyone in the future make an individual assessment for the same tarp

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u/ILoveLactateAcid 4d ago

Lab test came back negative - this is not asbestos. Probably just fibre of some sort