Homeowner questions tied to abatement
and flooring prompt multilayered responses

When a building material is deemed hazardous enough to be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, you would think the answers to any home-improvement questions about it would be clear-cut, black and white. When the material is asbestos, however, you would be wrong.

Perhaps this is why asbestos remains such a popular topic among Eichler Network readers and our Chatterbox Lounge online forum contributors three decades after its uses became strictly regulated—indeed, even banned entirely in countries like Japan, Turkey, and New Zealand.

An Eichler owner in the Terra Linda tract of San Rafael recently wrote with some concerns that arose when she started planning to replace carpeting in her Eichler with another surface.

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