Flooring Over Black Mastic

Below are some recommendations for installing different categories of flooring over cutback adhesive.

Flooring over black mastic.

Common in homes built in the 20th century black mastic was used as an adhesive for ceramic tile linoleum and other flooring materials. Existing adhesives must be left so that no ridges or puddles are evident and what remains is a thin smooth film. Hello i removed old vinyl tiles in my basement. I am tiling mosaic and small pieces over what once was a concrete basement floor which on occasion in my city with all the rain can get flooded what was there when i bought the house 2 years ago was an asbestos linoleum 1 square very thin tile over a thin black mastic.

When you remove that floor covering to make way for new flooring you may encounter the mastic and wonder whether it is safe to remove the main concern surrounding this question is that black mastic often contains asbestos. Will the mvp adhere to that. Mastic is a type of glue used to adhere tiles and vinyl flooring to the subfloor. Asbestos mastic will also always be black in color.

Armstrong vct adhesives may go directly over cutback adhesive. I am left with the old black mastic on my cement floors and wood stairs leading down into basement. New flooring over old mastic. It was suggested by a flooring specialist that the tile may have been glued down with black mastic due to the age of our home 1965.

I have a customer that wants to glue down bellawood brazilian cherry over black adhesive that was used 50 years ago under 9 x 9 linoleum tiles. There is no concrete exposed. Possible signs of asbestos mastic include discoloration and an oily texture. Whenever we find black mastic on a floor we coat it with a material called perfectprimer it sticks tot the mastic and then bonds to any tile glue or epoxy customer wants to apply.

I have had a few estimates on removal and i get different opinions from them. Can adhesives and moisture barriers be used over old black cutback asphalt based adhesive. If your building was built before 1980 mastic mixed with asbestos may have been used to seal your tiles to the floor. However the substance isn t sticky like other posters are.

I have received estimates for the mastic removal of 1000 to 2500.