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 ...

Workers will spend the winter break removing an asbestos gym floor from Eisenhower School in Prospect Heights. “We figure let’s get it done now, when the kids won’t be around,” said Rick Ewanio, ...

Q: Our home was built in 1971. After buying it, we hired a remodeling contractor to remove the popcorn ceilings. When he started the work, we asked if he was going to test for asbestos before starting ...

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 ...

The cost of asbestos siding removal averages $5,700, but a typical range is between $690 and $20,000. Some key factors that affect the total removal cost include the size of the area, type of asbestos ...

Q. We purchased an older home, which has carpeting in the basement glued to the tile. The tile undoubtedly contains asbestos. The basement has since flooded and we would like to remove the carpeting.

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 ...

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 ...

My coop building is planning a renovation of the lobby and first floor which currently have asbestos-containing tile. Some people want to rip out the floors & replace them with stone, which means we ...

The bad news came in the mail one week after Blair and Courtney Severe had closed on their new home. In a terse two-paragraph letter, the Severes’ insurance company canceled their new homeowner’s ...