Question: I’m taking up a tile floor and need to dispose of it. I’m not sure if it’s asbestos tile or not. How and where can I dispose of it? Answer: There are two kinds of asbestos: friable, which is ...

Dear Jerry: My house was built in 1953 and my basement is about 600 square feet. The flooring is 12-by-12-inch square vinyl tiles which are glued down with black material that looks like roofing ...

Workers trying to remove a mildew odor from an area of Howard High School inadvertently uncovered asbestos floor tiles in a classroom last week, forcing the room to be closed temporarily while the ...

Asbestos, a heat-resistant fibrous silicate mineral, was a common element in construction materials due to its resilient, durable nature—until the 1980s, anyway, when it was banned due to the ...

FITCHBURG — Gym tiles containing asbestos at South Street Elementary School were removed improperly by a maintenance worker, Board of Health Director Stephen Curry said Friday. But Curry said there is ...

Q: Our home is about 60 years old house and has asbestos floor tiles under the carpets. Now that we're selling, our agent wants us to list these tiles on our disclosure statement. She says this kind ...

Q. When we bought our house, the home inspector told us the asphalt floor tiles in the kitchen might contain asbestos. At the time, we weren't particularly concerned. Now that we are remodeling, our ...

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County officials have confirmed the presence of asbestos in the tile flooring of the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall. The county had brought in an independent environmental consultant in December ...

Floor tiles containing asbestos were removed from East Elementary in Jackson before construction started this summer. A printed email was sent home Wednesday to inform parents of asbestos being in the ...

Workers will spend the winter break removing an asbestos gym floor from Eisenhower School in Prospect Heights. “We figure let’s get it done now, when the kids won’t be around,” said Rick Ewanio, ...