Asbestos?

[Suomela]

Tore down a wall in the garage leading to an old "drying room," planning to make the garage bigger.

The drying room had vinyl flooring, you can see some remnants around the drain...

Without thinking and started googling how to clean adhesive residue after vinyl flooring on concrete, of course, lots of threads about asbestos popped up, and I started to overanalyze right away...
Construction year 1976.
What do you think about the adhesive used?
Could it contain asbestos?

 

[Magnus E K]

You can be calm. There is no such thing as "asbets" and there never has been.

If it's trouble with a different spelling you mean - the only way to be sure is to send in a sample (or invest in your own testing equipment).

 

[Mikael_L]

In 1976, there was asbestos in a lot of different building materials.
So YES, the glue might have contained asbestos...

But did you have any other questions, or did you just want to know?
The job seems to be done, and there's no time machine (except in the Christmas calendar).

 

[Suomela]

In 1976, there was asbestos in a lot of different building materials. So YES, the glue could have contained asbestos...

But did you have another question, or did you just want to know? The job seems to be done, and there isn't a time machine (except in the Christmas calendar).

I was also thinking about how I dare to try to remove the glue residues on the concrete... since there is quite a smell from it.

 

[Mikael_L]

It probably depends mostly on how paranoid you are. I think you should at least buy a good face mask, of the right class. Then wet clean and ventilate.

Then you can increase the level of protection entirely depending on how worried you are. You can always pay a lot of money and hire an asbestos removal company.

But before you rush off and make something worse and more expensive out of it, it might be a good idea to send a small sample for asbestos analysis.

Personally, I would probably skip the analysis. Use a decent quality face mask, some old worn-out clothes that I can throw away afterward or a disposable overall. And then clean up afterward, starting with wet cleaning. But of course, it depends a bit on how dusty and dirty the job gets; if it generates very little dust, I might lower the level of ambition a bit.

 

[Suomela]

It probably depends mostly on how worried you are.
I think at the very least you should buy a good face mask, of the right class. Then wet wipe and air out.

Then you can increase the level of protection entirely depending on how worried you are.
You can always pay a lot of money and hire an asbestos removal company.

But before you rush off and do something worse and more expensive, it might be a good idea to send a small sample for asbestos analysis.

Personally, I would probably skip the analysis. Use a decent quality face mask, some old worn-out clothes that I can throw away afterward, or a disposable overall. And then clean up afterward, starting with wet wiping.
But of course, it depends a bit on how dusty and dirty the work is going to be. If it generates very little dust, I might lower my level of ambition a bit,

I'll experiment a bit and see how it goes, thanks for the tips.

 

[SomePenguin]

Trying things out a bit, we'll see, thanks for the tips

Glue with asbestos is called black glue and is black in color. I don't think it looks like black glue in your picture. So it's probably not asbestos.

Even if it is asbestos, you shouldn't be too worried about it. I will attach a link for you shortly that might be calming to read.

 

[SomePenguin]

Tore down a wall in the garage leading to an old "drying room", thinking of making the garage bigger.

The drying room had a vinyl floor, you can see some remnants around the drain..

Without thinking it through, I began Googling how to clean glue residue after removing vinyl flooring on a concrete slab, and of course, found many threads about asbestos and started overanalyzing..
Year of construction 1976.
What do you think about the glue used?
Could it contain asbestos?

Reading about asbestos:
http://www.amm.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Faktablad_Asbest.pdf

tldr; If you're not tearing out asbestos daily, you don't need to be particularly worried.

 

[Suomela]

Reading about asbestos:
[link]

tldr; if you're not tearing down asbestos daily, you don't need to be particularly worried.

Thanks!