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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s time to catch up with some questions from readers. QUESTION: I have discovered what appears to be older asbestos vinyl floor tiles in some of my closets. The main floors appear carpeted over a ...

I read a flooring article recently that I’d like your thoughts on. It was entitled “Flooring choices each have different advantages” and contained quotes from some flooring store owners. One quote ...

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 ...

Manhattan Beach school officials are trying to determine how a work crew was unaware of the asbestos contained in tiles it was grinding in the Mira Costa High School library — without appropriate ...