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What can be used to fill small areas of missing asbestos tile?
After removing carpet I have found a wonderful black and white 9X9 square tile floor on a concrete slab. There are “pot holes” through out the room. Some are divots in the concrete and some are from chipped corners of the tile. I have found that I can paint the concrete to look like the tile. The problem is that where I first painted, there use to be a wall. There were no tiles laid for that 15′ X 5 1/2″ stripe in the center of the room. Now that the paint looks so much like the original tile, I want to make the floor smoother where the tile has chipped away or was never installed under previous walls. Any suggestions? I can email pictures of the floor if needed.
Thanks for any guidance
This is asbestos your dealing with and a lot of people will freak out when dealing with such stuff and flooring installers are required by law to not even barely look at the stuff,much less mess with it.
Now that being said,I am a flooring installer and if we were to sit down over a cup of coffee and to talk about what to do with the CHIPPED tiles I would suggest take a crowbar or something similar and lift them up.They probably for the most part will be pretty loose anyway.Just don’t try pulling them up if they are really stuck and are in a sense “chipping” everywhere every inch or so.
The major thing with asbestos in flooring is the dust and such you can kick up when using things such as a sander on them.You don’t want all of that fine dust in the air because it will pretty much stay there.
As far as the fix,go to a flooring store and buy some cheap old VCT that they are trying to get rid of and simply patch those tiles into the ones under the wall and the ones you took up.Once that is done you can paint over them.
Also if the old black looking glue was used on the old VCT,make sure you buy the same to put back.Anything else can cause a chemical reaction.
Cutting the tiles.Use something like a utility knife and measure and score the VCT then just break them.
You can also use a hairdryer to heat the tiles which in turn makes them easier to cut.
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