Kentile Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tile

Asbestos vinyl floor tiles.

Kentile vinyl asbestos floor tile.

Kentile s asbestos trust began accepting claims in march 2015 and currently holds 193 million in funds. Because floor tiles are not imprinted with brand names look for previous owners documentation or for excess tiles left by the installers. However kentile eventually paid the price for their asbestos use. The kentile flooring idenfication photos and pattern examples shown here are culled from magazine advertisements and kentile flooring catalogs from the 1950 s.

Criterion solids kentile vinyl composition tile from 1986. Kentile floors flourished under founder arthur kennedy specializing in vinyl asphalt and cork floor tiles. 2 o u f 0 s p o n s 4 g o r w e n d a a. Asbestos in vinyl products becomes dangerous when microscopic fibers of the mineral are released and become airborne.

1956 kenroyal kentile vinyl tile floors ad kitchen capri blue white tweed. The floor was laid in 1986. While kentile used asbestos in nearly all of its flooring it was particularly prevalent in vinyl tiles adhesives and asphalt tiles. Top rated seller top rated seller.

Also see kentile kenflex asbestos floor tile guide. Kentile floors in brooklyn new york was a neighborhood mainstay for many years with a recognizable neon kentile sign above its flagship factory. I have a kitchen floor of 12 x 12 kentile vinyl tiles some of which are damaged and some of which we plan to take up. Armstrong congoleum nairn ever wear kentile kenflex montgomery ward and sears roebuck are some of the brand names of vinyl tile from that period that might contain asbestos.

1964 kentile brookstone vinyl asbestos tile floor ad exciting. The tile is kentile vinyl composition tile criterion. From united states c 16 47 shipping. The company began as a small brooklyn tile company in 1898.

The asbestos helped make these tiles extremely durable a quality for which the company was well known.