Old flooring and floor adhesives may contain asbestos, so call your county for an asbestos test before pulling it or disturbing it.
A brown crayon can fill scratches in hardwood floors; adhesive and a heavy brick can repair vinyl seams that pop up.
The only existing guideline for PAH concentrations in SHD is 10 μg/g for BaP, issued by the German Federal Environmental Agency's Commission for Indoor Air Quality (32) in response to concerns about coal tar in wood-flooring adhesive.
Linoleum flooring adhesive needs about 72 hours to cure.
Linoleum/flooring adhesive is almost always available at major hardware stores (often under the all-purpose name "flooring adhesive").
Get your vinyl flooring adhesive out, and get a notched trowel.
Phthalates, which make plastics more flexible, are used in PVC plastics, solvents, vinyl flooring, adhesives and detergents.
Phthalate diesters can be found in polyvinyl chloride plastics, personal care products (e.g., shampoo, soap, perfume), flooring, adhesives, and food processing equipment.
Hansen and Volland (32) reported high concentrations (149 to 762 μg/g) of PAHs in SHD associated with coal-tar-based flooring adhesives in Germany but only where parquet flooring had been damaged.
BzBP is commonly used in vinyl flooring, adhesives, sealants, car-care products, and some personal care products (NTP-CERHR 2003); and although some of these products, particularly vinyl flooring, may be present in the NICU, we did not specifically examine the sources and routes of these neonates' exposure to BzBP for this study.
