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Some older poured seamless flooring contains asbestos

Properties, brands, history of poured-in-place seam less flooring or floors.

This article series describes sheet flooring products known to contain significant levels of asbestos. We also include photographs for identification of known asbestos-containing resilient sheet flooring as well as unknown flooring submitted for identification.

Page top photo: Durex™ poured in place seamless flooring cited in below in this article. Durex™ proprietary resin floors are not an asbestos-containing product.

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Seamless, Poured-in-Place Flooring Identification & Asbestos Content

Poured resilient flooring ca 1965 seamless (C) InspectApedia.com ToddSome poured in place seamless flooring products contained asbestos while others, typically the urethane or epoxy approaches, generally did and do not. Here we describe both older and current poured-in-place floor products.

Asbestos in poured liquid resilient flooring 1965 - Hubbellite & others

Can I tile over this poured floor?

This flooring was installed in 1965. It's poured in, covering the kitchen and dining room.

I want to know if it's advisable to tile over it.

Is there an asbestos issue? 2018-08-27 by Todd Slenning

This question and reply were posted originally

at RESILIENT SHEET FLOORING ID GUIDE - be sure to see that article.

Moderator reply:

I'm not sure which poured-in floor you're asking about - perhaps polished concrete? Poured resilient? Poured urethane? In any event, if it's a slab construction you ought to be able to tile over it.

Reader follow up:

It's on the second floor, it was poured in as a liquid substance that hardened, no seams, not tile.

Mod Reply: identify the type of poured-in-place floor if not the brand

If you could find the product name I would be happy to research specifics on the use of asbestos in pour-able resilient floor coverings.

Certainly for poured floor covering from the mid 1960s, it would be prudent to treat the flooring as presumed to contain asbestos, probably as a filler and as a binder or fibre reinforcer, until you have a sample tested.

Watch out: Our research identifies at least some older seamless flooring products such as Hubbellite as containing about 10% chrysotile asbestos. (Olah 2005).

The best approach is to leave such a floor in place and install new flooring atop it.

Watch out: you can install resilient sheet flooring, resilient floor tile, linoleum, even carpeting.

What you should not do is install ceramic tile - at least not until an expert has examined the floor construction and its stiffness, since a too-thin subfloor or inadequate floor framing (for a tile floor) cause a tile cracking problem unless added stiffness, perhaps by cross-bracing, is provided.

Modern poured resilient seamless floors such as those from Stonhard, are typically a poured-in-place urethane or polymer flooring product. These floors are a bit harder than traditional resilient sheet flooring, and are widely used in areas where cleaning and avoiding seams is particularly valuable such as in hospitals and medical offices, schools, and even rooftop bars and decks.

Older Seamless Flooring Products: Hubbellite, Torginol, Marbelized cement

Poured flooring in 1920s Michigan home

I am trying to identify the flooring material that is throughout my 1920s Michigan home, including stairs. It was poured over a wire lattice. 2025-03-16 by G71

This question and reply were posted originally at TYPES OF FLOORING

Moderator reply: flooring seems to be too old to be Hubellite

@G71,

Thank you for a great photo and an interesting question. I haven't seen that exact flooring product before but it certainly looks like an example of

POURED IN PLACE FLOORING (you are now on this page)

And possibly that material is Hubbelite for which you will find our discussion above.

Reader follow up:

@InspectApedia Publisher, Thank you for the reply. It was installed around the 20s, so I do not think it is Hubellite. It has confounded several local contractors already.

Mod reply:

@G71,

Thank you for the added notes. If you'd like to post some more photos it would be great to document your floor on our poured in place flooring page. You can post here and we'll move them or you can post at the link that I gave you earlier.

 

Modern Seamless Flooring Products

Durex TM Flooring poured in place seamless floor system cited in this InspectApedia.com articleThese modern polymer or urethane floors don't contain asbestos.


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