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You wouldn t immediately think about asbestos when you thought about carpet.
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In a basement i d suggest a rubber based carpet pad rather than a fiber pad.
Also i have never heard of asbestos being used in foam backing for carpet.
I m currently removing old carpet in my dinning room and kitchen and found that i have asbestos tile underneath.
By leaving a layer of carpet you make it that much harder to nail down the tack strips the long wooden strips around the perimeter with upward pointing spikes.
Carpeting and a suitable pad will do the trick.
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Should asbestos materials be found under the carpet there are several options.
Leave the carpet in place or cover over the existing carpet.
But you don t have that situation as far as i can tell.
While it is correct that asbestos isn t in carpeting it may well be a part of the substrate that you are damaging and breaking down when you pull up old carpeting and.
You could also cover the tiles with new vinyl flooring linoleum or even ceramic tiles.
However as a favor to future owners of your house make some note of the fact that asbestos tiles are under the new flooring.
Vinyl asbestos tile is not that fragile.
An inspection for asbestos materials must be done prior to the carpet removal.
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The anchoring nails on tack strips run about 3 4 inch long which is far too short to penetrate the old carpet plus a pad if the carpet has one and drive into the subfloor.
You may have asbestos in the tile and you may have asbestos in the glue on top of or under the.
Tack strips are difficult to install.
I also don t think there was any significant release by pulling up the carpet.
Asbestos after all is not one of the key ingredients in carpet fibers.