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 Armstrong Floor Tiles & Sheet Identification Photos 1974-1979
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Armstrong Floor Tile Identification Guide - 1974 - 1979
1974 - Complete Armstrong Excelon Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles, Patterns & Color Guide
 Our photo guide to vinyl asbestos floor tiles for 1974 shows one photo of each style or pattern; the list below includes the names of and links to additional photos for other colors of these styles.
If we do not include a photo of a particular floor tile style that's because it appeared unchanged from a prior year - just scroll up through this photo guide to find the first occurrence of each floor tile style, pattern, name, dimensions, and colors.
Our photo left is probably Glenmore Brick (1973 photo) 12" x 12" x 1/16" (White, 57131) found in a home in Poughkeepsie, NY.
In 1974 Armstrong Excelon asbestos vinyl floor tiles were produced in the styles shown in the photo guide just below. For colors for which a link is not provided below, see the earlier occurrence of that tile color in a previous year.
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- Imperial 12" x 12" x 1/8" vinyl asbestos floor tiles Terrace white #56880 (first photo at above, left).
- Imperial Modern 12" x 12" x 3/32" (Fleece white 51850, Mellow sand 51851, Smoke beige 51852, Char brown 51854, Medium cork 51855, Bayberry white 51856, Olive 51857, Sandrift white 51858, Powder gray 51861) floor tile images from 1974
- Imperial Texture 12" x 12" (Manor green 51845) (fifteen colors produced)
- Travertex 12" x 12" x 1/8" thick (Nougat beige 51138)
- Presidential 12" x 12" x 1/8" (Montpelier beige 51950)
- Classic Travertine 12" x 12" x 1/8" (White 51880, & Beige 51881)
- Standard 12" x 12" (Seneca white 56770, above left)
- Feature tiles (Ten solid colors, 12" x 12" x 1/8" thick and in strips, 1" wide x 24" long) - produced beginning in 1956, above is a 1971 photo (unchanged)
- Craftlon Collection 12" x 12" Adelphi II Gold 54434, or Aalst (next photo), or Baal 54433
- Craftlon Collection 12" x 12" Adelphi II Aalst 54431 (showing a second color, Aalst)
- Craftlon Collection 12" x 12" Devonshire inset (Gold, 54452, Brown 54451, White 54453, or Red 54454)
- Craftlon Collection 9" x 9" x 3/32" Romford brick 9"x9" (White 57020 or Red Romford Brick 57021 - 1973 photo)
- Craftlon Collection Leathercraft 12"x12" x 3/32" thick (Yellow, above left)
- Craftlon Collection Devonport 12"x12" x 3/32" thick (White 54463)
- Craftlon Collection Stonefield 12"x12" x 3/32" (Slate 54470)
- Embossed Chancery 12" x 12" x 1/16" (Gold white 54542)
- Embossed Shattered Stone 12" x 12" x 1/16" (Gold)
- Embossed Chandelle 12" x 12" x 1/16" (Olive 54521 - darker than the 1973 version - see the 1973 color series above;, also see this Chandelle Multi-White for 1974)
- Embossed Dianna White Caligula (White with veining)
- Custom Bisque 12" x 12" x 1/16" (White 57090, Rust, Beige 57092, Brown, Bronze, Olive) vinyl asbestos floor tiles
- Custom Burnham 12" x 12" x 1/16" (Tan) (also see 1972)
- Custom Old Forge12" x 12" x 1/16" (White, 57081) Don't confuse this with Custom Glenmore Brick 12" x 12"
x 1/16" or Romford Brick floor tiles from 1973. Also see our photos from 1978 where we show a continuous sheet resilient flooring product that also used the Romford Brick floor pattern.
- Embossed Woodstock 12" x 12" x 1/16" (Dark Cherry 54251 5th from left above, only in this shade)
- Smooth Surface Palatial 12" x 12"x 1/16" (Blue)
- Smooth Surface Tidestone 12" x 12"x 1/16" (Green, above left)
- Smooth Surface Driftstone 12" x 12"x 1/16" (Aztec white)
1975-1976 Floor Tiles Containing Asbestos
The vinyl-asbestos flooring shown at left was found beneath a newer layer of ceramic tile flooring in a home built in 1975 and appears to be original. The homeowner's asbestos test lab report indicated that this flooring contained 20% chrysotile asbestos.
Photo courtesy of Kai Schaller 3/13/2013.[33]
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1977 - Armstrong Solarian Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles, 12" x 12", Patterns & Color Guide
Armstrong Excelon Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles (as above), for colors for which a link is not provided below, see the earlier occurrence of that tile color in a previous year.
Solarian vinyl asbestos floor tiles, and the following:
- Imperial Texture 12" x 12" (see photos above)
- Imperial Modern 12" x 12"
- Classic Travertine Embossed 12" x 12"
- Travertex 12" x 12"
- Straight Grain 12" x 12"
- Feature 12" x 12" solid color tiles and solid color strips 1" x 24" all 1/8" gauge
- Craftlon (9" x 9" 0.80" gauge) Romford Brick pattern vinyl asbestos floor tiles (Red 57021, also sold in white - photos from identical product, 1978)
- Excelon Shattered Stone
Colors: (Beige 51170, Multi-White 51171, Gold 51172, White 51173 above 3rd from left)
- Regular 12" x 12"
(see photos above)
- Promotional embossed vinyl asbestos flooring 12" x 12" (Shattered stone white 51173 & Woodstock Dark Cherry 54251 patterns)
- Promotional smooth surfaced vinyl asbestos floor tiles 12" x 12" (Driftstone White 51173 also sold in Beige, multi-white, and Gold, patterns)
- Promotional smooth floor asbestos flooring Tidestone Daytona taupe 51760 (above left) also sold in green, Acapulco white, Malibu beige.
- Armstrong Excelon Supreme Floor Tile produced in 1977 did not contain asbestos [photos wanted]
1978 - Armstrong Solarian Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles, 12" x 12" & 9"x9", Patterns & Color Guide
Armstrong Solarian & Excelon Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles included the "Custom" patterns in 1978:
- Abbey wood 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Light 57320, above left, Medium 57321, Dark 57322)
- Burnham 12" x 12" x 1/16" (service gauge) Custom embossed vinyl asbestos floor tiles for 1978
Colors:
(Blue 57080, Olive 57081 above 2nd from left, Tan 57083)
- Classic Travertine 12" x 12"
Colors:
(White 51880 abive 3rd from left, Beige 51881)
- Country brick 12" x 12" regular brick pattern vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Terra Cotta 57400, White 57401, Burnt toast, 57402, above 4th from left especially recommended for kitchens, Almond 57403)
- CraftlonRomford Brick (9" x 9" 0.80" gauge) pattern vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(White 57020, and Red 57021, also see 1977)
- Eden wood 12" x 12" Custom vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors: (Walnut 57140, Saddle 57141, White 57141)
For colors for which a link is not provided below, see the earlier occurrence of that tile color in a previous year.
Our photo (below-left) shows a late 1970's vintage Craftlon Romford Brick 9"x9" 0.80 gauge white vinyl asbestos floor, photos provided courtesy of reader Matt Abel, Design Services Department, Strongwood Log Home Company.
Our second flooring picture (below-right), provided courtesy of reader Diana Elliott, illustrates that resilient sheet flooring was produced in a pattern similar to Romford Brick floor tiles from 1973 and 1974, and closely resembling two other 12" x 12" tile patterns from the same era: Custom Glenmore Brick 12" x 12" and Custom Old Forge 12" x 12"
x 1/16" thick floor tiles, but in our photograph (below right) the flooring is reported to be in continuous sheet form.
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- Embossed, Dianna White 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors: (Caligula 51202, above left)
- Smooth-surfaced, Dianna White, 12" x 12" x 1/16" smooth
Colors: (Olympus 51200, Palatial 51601, Alba Beige 51602, Cannes Beige 51603, Corsica Olive 51607)
- Glenmore Brick, 12" x 12" regular brick pattern vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Red 57130, 2nd from left, above, White 57131, Gold 57132))
- Imperial Texture 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Palace beige 51837)
- Imperial Modern 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Medium cork 51855)
- Imperial 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
Colors:
(Cottage tan 51830)
- Imperial terrazzo-like 12" x12"
Colors:
(Terrace white 56880)
- Not shown above: Feature Floor Tiles, 12" x 12" solid colors
Colors:
(Solid colors Black 56790, White 56791, Chocolate 56797, Red 56806, Neutral 56807, Celerty 56808, and more solid colors Yellow 56809, Gold 56810, Orange 56811, and Blue 56812)
- Promotional embossed 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
- Promotional smooth 12" x 12" vinyl asbestos floor tiles
1979 - Armstrong Excelon Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles, Patterns & Color Guide
For colors for which a link is not provided below, see the earlier occurrence of that tile color in a previous year.
- Imperial Texture 12" x 12"
Colors:
(Cottage Tan 51830, Tower Gold 51831, Temple Orange 51833, Shelter White 51836, Palace Beige 51837, Mansion Gold 51838, Fortress White 51839, Tent Olive 51840, Castle Greige 51841, Pagoda Red 51842, Casa Orange 51843, Cathedral Gold 51844, Manor Green 51845, Teahouse Blue 51846) (Also see 1978 photos)
- Imperial Modern 12" x 12" (Flooring example at left)
Colors: (Fleece White 51850, Mellow Sand 51851, Char Brown 51854, Medium Cork 51855, Bayberry White 51856, Olive 51857, Sandrift White 51858) - Imperial 12" x 12"
Colors:
(See 1978 photos)
- Travertex 12" x 12"
Colors:(See 1978 photos)
(Briar Tan 51130, Frost White 51131, Cream White 51133, Harvest Ivory 51137, Nougat Beige 51138)
- Straight Grain 12" x 12"
Colors:
White Bayberry 56710, White 56742, Fawn White 56759, Iroquois Tan 56783 (See 1978 photos)
- Classic Travertine Embossed 12" x 12"
Colors: White 51880, Beige 51881
- Custom Burnham 12" x 12"
Colors: (Blue 57080, Olive 57081, Tan 57083)
- Custom Los Alamos 12" x 12" x 1/16"
Colors: Multi 57280, Yellow 57283, Red 57284
- Salvador
Colors: Yellow 57171, Brown/Tan 57174, Gold/Green 57175
- San Pedro
Colors: Gold 57072, Orange 57073, Gold/White 57074, Red 57075
- Country Brick
Colors: Terra cotta 57400, White 57401, Almond 57403
- Villa Court
Colors: White 57330, Almond 57331, Yellow 57332
- Eden Wood
Colors: Walnut 57140, Saddle 57141, White 57142
- Glenmore Brick
Colors: Red 57130, White 57131, Gold 57132
- Feature Floor Tiles (12 x 12 tile) solid colors:
Colors: Black 56790, White 56791, Chocolate 56797, Red 56806, Neutral 56807, Celery 56808, Yellow 56809, Gold 56810, Orange 56811, Blue 56812
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How to Find Your Floor Tile or Sheet Flooring in this Flooring Reference Photo Guide
  
Asphalt asbestos and vinyl-asbestos floor tiles were produced in 9" x 9", 12" x 12", and even 18" x 18" as well as in decorative strips, and in thicknesses of 1/16", 3/32", and 1/8", also in 0.08 gauge. Some sheet flooring or resilient flooring also contained asbestos, as did floor tile mastics.
This photo guide to asphalt asbestos & vinyl asbestos floor tiles for each year shows at least one color photo of each floor tile style or pattern in an example color. A list below each group of photos includes the names of and links to additional photos for other colors of these styles.
Asbestos is safe and legal to remain in homes or public buildings as long as the asbestos
materials are in good condition and the asbestos can not be released into the air.
To identify a particular asphalt-asbestos or vinyl-asbestos floor tile pattern & color, start in the image group most likely to be the same age as your building.
If you don't find your floor tile or sheet flooring by looking forward from that that year, you should also look backwards in the earlier years as your specific flooring pattern & color may have first appeared in an earlier year. For other tile brands than Armstrong, see the brand name floor tile links included in this list.
If you can identify your floor tile collection name or model number, or if you recognize it in the extensive library of flooring color and pattern photographs provided in these pages, laboratory testing of the sample to screen the flooring for asbestos may be unnecessary. Our home page for asbestos-containing floor tiles is at ASBESTOS FLOOR TILE PHOTO ID GUIDE To send us photographs of possible asbestos-containing flooring that you are trying to identify, use the email address found at CONTACT. |
We have split this guide to Armstrong Asphalt Asbestos or Vinyl Asbestos Floor Tiles into the individual year range pages (dates of production) below in order to cut web page load time. If you prefer to see all of the reference photos in a single scrollable file, contact us and we can provide the full list in a single big and slow-loading file.
Many of the colors and patterns of asphalt-asbestos or vinyl-asbestos floor tiles were manufactured over many years and may appear in more than one of the floor tile photo collections listed by date range here.
For each year we list the names of the tile patterns sold during that year, we include representative color images of the floor tiles, and throughout the entire floor tile pattern & color history series we include each floor tile color & pattern of the floor tile in the first year that it appeared , and we include representative colors and patterns in other years.
Examples of floor tile packaging, labeling, and other information can be found throughout the flooring photo collections listed here.
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- [1] Armstrong ® Residential Flooring - Website 05/15/2010 http://www.armstrong.com/ lists current flooring products provided by the Armstrong Corporation, including Armstrong's current vinyl floor tile products at http://www.armstrong.com/flooring/products/vinyl-floors
- [2] Armstrong Corporation, Corporate History - http://www.armstrong.com/corporate/corporate-history.html - Web Search 05/19/2010
- [3] Armstrong vinyl asbestos floor tiles: photos of asbestos-vinyl floor tiles as catalog pages (PDF form) are at www.asbestosresource.com/asbestos/tile.html
- [4] Accoflex 2005 series semi-flexible vinyl tile Wonder flooring product description; Armstrong's Accoflex is a vinyl composition floor tile. WonderFlooring, Private Bag X02, Fordsburg 2033, Telephone: 011 298 8100, Fax: 011 836 4450, National Call Centere: 0860-29-80-80, Email: info@wonderflooring.com & marketing@wonfloor.com/ [2nd is a defective email address]
Web search 01/29/2011, original source: http://www.wonderflooring.com/accoflex/accoflextech2.pdf
Reference: Armstrong Flooring: Accotile, Accoflex & Coke Tile. Publication 333, Armstrong Flooring.
Note on use of the "Accoflex" name:
In addition to Accoflex flooring produced by Armstrong, Accoflex® is also a U.S. registered trademark used for Insulation Jackets For Industrial Pipes, Tanks and Conduits Including Flexible and Rigid Insulation In the Form of Foamed Synthetic Material Sheeting, owned by Armacell Enterprise Gmbh, Armstrong World Industries, Inc, also distributed in the U.K., Australia, & New Zealand, also in Indonesia. Armacell Australia Pty Ltd, a producer of engineered foams, (http://www.armacell.com/) was founded officially in August 2000 when the then Armstrong Insulation Products (Australia) became a separate legal entity from Armstrong World Industries group.
- [5] "Asbestos in your home or at work," Forsyth County Environmental Affairs Department, Winston-Salem NC
12/08
- [6] "Asbestos Floor Tile Removal", the University of Minnesota's advice on removing VAT (vinyl asbestos or asphalt asbestos floor tile) can be read in detail at www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/asbestos/floortile/index.html
- [7] Copy on file as - /hazmat/Asbestos_in_Your_Home_US_EPA.pdf - Asbestos in Your Home - U.S. EPA, Exposure Evaluation Division, Office of Toxic Substances, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington,D.C. 20460
- [8] Resilient Floor Covering Institute, 1030 15th St. NW, suite 350, Washington D.C.
- [9] Inspiring Interiors from Armstrong 1950s from Armstrong, [Paperback], Schiffer Publishing (March 1998), ISBN-10: 0764304585, ISBN-13: 978-0764304583 (Available from Amazon)
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- [10] Mechanix Illustrated How-to-do-it Encyclopedia Vol 2. -1961
- [11] Asbestos products and their history and use in various building materials such as asphalt and vinyl flooring includes discussion which draws on Asbestos, Its Industrial Applications, D.V. Rosato, engineering consultant, Newton, MA, Reinhold Publishing, 1959 Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 59-12535 (out of print).
- [12] Congoleum Corporation, "Company History", Congoleum Corporation, Department C, P.O. Box 3127, Mercerville, NJ 08619-0127 1-609-584-3601, web-search 03/14/2011, original source: http://www.congoleum.com/history.html
- [13] David Grudzinski,
Advantage Home Inspections,
is a professional home inspector in Cranston, RI. 02910. He can be reached at 401-935-6547,
fax- 401-490-0607 or by email to contact/us@advantagehomeinspections.us 04/26/2009
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- [17] Kentile KenFlex flooring photographs: Flickr web search 5/15/2010 - see original material and other asbestos product photos
- [18] "Plastic Flooring Spreads Through the House", Jackson Hand, Guide to Home-Improvement Materials, Popular Science, April 1969, p. 154-158
- [19] Thomas Hauswirth, Managing Member of Beacon Fine Home Inspections, LLC and (in 2007) Vice President, Connecticut Association of Home Inspectors
Ph. 860-526-3355 Fax 860-526-2942 beaconinspections@sbcglobal.net 06/07: thanks for photographs of transite asbestos heating ducts
- [20] Gary Randolph, Ounce of Prevention Home Inspection, LLC Buffalo, NY, for attentive reading and editing suggestions. Mr. Randolph can be reached in Buffalo, NY, at (716) 636-3865
or email: gary@ouncehome.com
3/07
- [21] Thanks to reader Matt Abel, Design Services Department, Strongwood Log Home Company,
711 Shadow Road, Waupaca WI 54981, Office (715) 258-4818, Toll Free (866) 258-4818, www.gostrongwood.com
"Begin your journey home.." for vinyl asbestos floor photos, October 2010.
- [22] Thanks to reader Meryl Silvers for hexagonal floor tile photos showing a possilbe Kentile product that contained asbestos. October 2010.
- [23] Thanks to reader N.H. for providing a photo of 1970's era vinyl asbestos floor tile that we identify as most likely Armstrong Solarian Devonport white.
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