Asbestos was also a common ingredient in some mastic adhesives used for glue up application of ceiling tiles.
Mineral fiber ceiling tile asbestos.
Asbestos is an excellent electrical insulator and is highly heat.
Mineral fiber ceiling tiles acoustic mineral fiber tiles.
Asbestos may have been used in the ceiling tile tiles and in lay in ceiling tiles in suspended ceilings in the tile body or in paper facing or backing on the ceiling tiles.
Asbestos has also been used in a wide range of manufactured goods mostly in building materials roofing shingles ceiling and floor tiles paper products and asbestos cement products friction products automobile clutch brake and transmission parts heat.
Our company receives calls on a daily basis from people frantically looking for acoustic mineral fiber tiles to match those they are replacing due to water damage.
Our page top photo shows an old acoustic ceiling tile that tests showed did not contain asbestos.
How to recognize ceiling tiles by visual inspection to note clear evidence of non asbestos materials such as fiberglass and how to confirm that othe ceiling tiles or suspended ceiling panels are asbestos free by a simple lab test.
There are a lot of good things you can say about mineral fiber tiles but longevity just isn t one of them.