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it will work fine with the Thomson's.

Really you can just cut out the subfloor along with the flooring between the joist, pull up the pieces and then the pieces off the joist. Put the new sub flooring down and so on.... much less time consuming imo.

I don't think Thompson's will do anything to prevent rot. They used to sell some stuff called Coppertox that did actually work but I don't think you can buy it any longer.

Do not put thompsons on the floor. If you want to do a water proof job for a bath room the way to go is with red guard, two coats. No water will ever reach the subfloor if done correctly.

Use a utility knife to score through to the subfloor, make your cuts about the width of whatever you're using to scrape it up. It makes the job so much easier to scrape off a 10" width of lino rather than trying to fight with the whole damned sheet.

It looks like Red Guard should go over the backer board, or am I misinterpreting the installation video?

For $135, I'm thinking this may be worthwhile. Our boys are plenty good at getting water everywhere in that bath.


Note to fathers of young boys, about to build a new home: Maybe think "locker room shower" instead of "guest bath".

Scott

i always use red guard when i build a shower that i'm going to tile. good stuff will work on the floor just as good.

Scrape it up and not worry about it. Put it in your kitchen trash bag and toss it in the can. We used to wet it down with something nasty (I can't remember now hat it was) and buff the floor with a buffer and coarse pad, then squeegee it into snow shovels and bag it up.

It's the fibers in asbestos that get you. If a human hair was 40' in diameter an asbestos fiber would be 1/2". It takes a lot of exposure to build up scar tissue in your lungs. Fibers contained in the mastic don't break free as easily as something that crumbles. The surfractants in the dish soap will help break down the surface tension of the water to keep the fibers from getting airborne.

We had to wear air quality monitors while working and NEVER had a sample come back on a floor job that would've required us to even wear masks by OSHA standards, for what that's worth. It's just one bathroom, scrape it and don't worry.

The real harm in removal is in industrial applications where it was used as high temp insulation. Over time it breaks down and when you break it free it'll usually crumble, some of it just poofing into a cloud of killya. You really do have to be careful with that stuff. The big tanks are done in a fully contained negative pressure poly enclosure with battery powered positive pressure full face masks. THAT'S miserable work. They kept the machinery running until we were done and we had one job with a guy who's only responsibility was to keep patching holes in the poly wall that kept melting (it melted at 350*).