If asbestos is present, you'll need a certified professional to handle the removal. Once it's gone, then you can focus on the ...

A caution: Some older floor coverings, such as vinyl-asbestos tiles, contain asbestos. The asbestos is not considered harmful unless the flooring material is crumbled or abraded to produce dust ...

Melvin Rice of Baltimore asks whether it’s better to remove or to side over the asbestos shingle siding on his house when vinyl siding is installed. Half of the contractors he’s talked with ...

22). In addition to vinyl-asbestos floor tile, the new proposal would immediately ban asbestos-containing roofing felts, flooring felts and felt-backed sheet flooring, cement pipe and fittings ...

My sister, a Catholic nun, got it at age 52. Taking up Vinyl Asbestos Tile (VAT) can be done but it’s a pain in the neck to do unless it is on a basement floor and the glue has given out due to ...