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Congoleum flooring from th 1960s identification & asbestos content.

This article series provides a guide to identifying traditional or early Congoleum rugs and other sheet flooring products, Congoleum-Nairn asphalt-asbestos, vinyl asbestos floor tiles, linoleum, and sheet flooring (resilient flooring).

Some of these Congoleum floor covering materials contain asbestos in asbestos fiber or asbestos powder-filler form.

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Congoleum Sheet Vinyl Flooring, 1960's: Tested, No Asbestos

Congoleum Nairn flooring 1960s tested as Asbestos-Free (C) Anon at InspectApedia.comContributed by a reader, the Congoleum vinyl flooring shown here flooring shown here has a blue felt-like backing.

This floor was installed in a Denver Colorado home built in 1967, though of course the flooring could have been installed at a later date.

A flooring sample tested by DCM Science Laboratories, a certified asbestos test lab in Colorado detected no asbestos in this Congoleum flooring material. The lab reported the flooring composition in general terms as

Lab report on file.

Congoleum Nairn Flooring Products Reported to Contain Asbestos

Asbestos exposure from Congoleum

Details about the Congoleum Trust formed to address asbestos-related claims can be found under Congoleum in our alphabetical listing

at ASBESTOS PRODUCING COMPANIES & TRUSTS

There you'll read that the principal asbestos exposure from Congoleum products was of people working in construction and remodeling in residential and commercial buildings.

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Where Asbestos Exposure May Have Occurred involving Congoleum flooring products

Asbestos containing floor products manufactured by Congoleum were most commonly used in the construction industry for new construction and remodeling projects across both residential and commercial markets.

Working in construction can be physically demanding as well as hazardous because the need to work around toxic substances like asbestos occurs frequently.

Those who worked directly with asbestos containing products, such as installers, demolition workers and do-it-yourselfers have been unaware of exposure to harmful asbestos fibers and now could be at risk for developing mesothelioma, an asbestos-related disease.

Equally at risk were those who worked in other trades along side or within close proximity of the jobsite as well as spouses and other family members who were exposed to the worker's dusty clothing and hair.

Additional Images of Congoleum linoleum sheet flooring products are

at LINOLEUM & Other Sheet Flooring

More Images of Congoleum Nairn produced vinyl asbestos floor tiles in patterns and shades including examples shown

at ASBESTOS FLOOR TILE IDENTIFICATION PHOTOS 1949-1959


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