Roof Mastic Asbestos

Asbestos is still widely used in building materials like insulation plaster wallboard vinyl and laminate flooring siding and cement pipe.

Roof mastic asbestos.

21 1992 pdf 5 pp 158 k letter to j. Thank you for your letter of march 6 on behalf of your constituent victor montgomery expressing concern about the occupational safety and health administration s osha newly revised asbestos standard as it pertains to roofing. This includes but is not limited to the removal of asbestos containing wallboard floor tile and sheeting roofing and siding shingles and construction mastics. You will only see black asbestos mastic after a floor covering has been removed.

What does black mastic look like. 40 cfr 61 145 a 4. Asbestos fibers found their way into these roofing products. Class ii asbestos work means activities involving the removal of acm which is not thermal system insulation or surfacing material.

The honorable strom thurmond united states senate washington d c. Cropp re sawing asbestos roofing felt jun. Home built in 1960. Dufour re applicability of the asbestos neshap to asbestos.

Asbestos was used in those forms in vinyl asbestos flooring in both floor tile and sheet flooring forms. Asbestos is a highly fibrous material and these fibers interlock to help strengthen mastic insulation and many other household building products. 12 1990 pdf 3 pp 36 k letter to d. Please contact baron and budd at 855 280 7664 or contact us online here if you have reason to believe you worked around or with any of these products or you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung.

Roofing tar and asphalt liquids roofing felt and underlayment roofing caulking mastic and sealant roofing cement and cement based shingles roof flashings and vents roof flat sheets and corrugated asbestos roofing. As the name suggests black is its predominant color. Moran re applicability of the asbestos neshap to asbestos roofing dec. Typical black mastic pattern on vinyl asbestos floor tile underside our photos above show a typical black floor tile adhesive mastic on the underside of a 9x9 cork pattern vinyl floor tile found in a u s.

Asbestos fibers were used as a strengthening material in roof flashing cements as well as in flooring mastics and cutback adhesives. Rueckert re asbestos neshap apr.