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 ...

Question: I’m taking up a tile floor and need to dispose of it. I’m not sure if it’s asbestos tile or not. How and where can I dispose of it? Answer: There are two kinds of asbestos: friable, which is ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Ongoing work to remove asbestos-containing floor tiles in the county's aging Law & Justice Center ...

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 ...

The Hays USD 489 school board approved a $110,315 contract with Integrated Solutions for the removal of asbestos floor tile, ...

The board of education unanimously approved a grant application Monday to help pay for the removal of approximately 15,000 square feet of asbestos floor tile from Barnes Elementary School. If approved ...

Floor tiles containing asbestos were removed from East Elementary in Jackson before construction started this summer. A printed email was sent home Wednesday to inform parents of asbestos being in the ...

LAWRENCE — The president of the Lawrence Teachers Union wants the entire Bruce School closed while contractors remove as many as 5,000 ceiling tiles containing asbestos from a wing of the building ...

LOWELL – A company hired by the Lowell Housing Authority to find out how much asbestos is present at the LHA’s major housing developments found asbestos in the only unit at North Common Village it ...