I have the unfortunate task of turning a basement dogs were holed up in into a bedroom. These dogs happened to pee and poop everywhere.
Luckily, the floor is linoleum, so mopping should go a long way but I'm understandably worried it won't be near enough, especially for a room I'll be sleeping in. No, there really isn't another room in the house that is available. Google is turning up a lot of rather different advice and obscure product recommendations on deodorizing, especially when poop is involved.
Please, dear god, help me figure this out.
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That kind of stuff will usually seep through and the scent will linger because it's underneath the flooring. If you can't pull it up, be ready to bleach and soak the crap out of it.
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Pulling the flooring pretty much has no downsides, as far as I can tell. Thanks.
How old is your house? Lots of older linoleum has asbestos backing. It would be worth getting that checked before you start pulling it up.
That is... asbestos backing. It looks exactly like the stuff GIS brought up.
The filename of that picture being asbestos4.jpg. D:
The adhesive is pretty faded and sticks to the tiles more than the floor, but, well, yeah.
I think you're in the realm of either don't live down there or get professional cleanup, unfortunately.
Yeah, the tiles have been flaking for forever, the house was made in the... 60s? I think. The basement flooded pretty regularly, multiple times a year.
Don't worry about the tiles. Those are non-friable and won't put asbestos fibers into the air. You are either going to have to remove them or look at doing some sort of floating floor over them. Do not sand, grid or do anything else to rough up the surface of the tiles.
And if you want to remove them, you can. Here's the non-friable tile removal guidelines from Oregon. Most states are going to be similar.
http://www.deq.state.or.us/aq/asbestos/docs/Asbflr.pdf