[Buzzard]

I'm in a bind. I'm in the middle of a complete kitchen reno. The house was built in 1981. Right now it's completely gutted, all that's left to do is lift up the ugly old vinyl and the particle board subfloor it's on in order to put new subfloor and tile down.

So I'm talking to the neighbor, telling him what's going on and he says better wear a mask for pulling up that lino because of asbestos. I knew nothing of this! I panic, start googling, and find that this is a fairly serious thing.

Now there's varying opinions it seems on how serious a thing it is. Everything from "one tiny exposure leads directly to disease", to "hell, I worked around that stuff for 30 years and I'm fine". Apparently asbestos in flooring phased out in the late 70's, early 80's but flooring with asbestos was used right up to the 90's. The only way to find out is to have it tested, and asume if your home is in that age that it DOES have asbestos in it. I would have no problem getting it tested....but I need this flooring up tomorrow for subfloor to go in Wednesday and kichen in Thursday Friday. I've no clue what to do here. Roll the dice, try to keep dust and whatnot to minimum?? Anybody have experience or advice??