Our living room has carpet with old linoleum below it. The linoleum probably has asbestos in it, so we don't want to disturb it. Recently I find near the bottom of the patio door, the sub-floor was damaged because of condensation. The sub-floor looks like particle board, and it becomes rotten so that the carpet tack strip becomes loose. Since the particle board was damaged, I can see that the linoleum at the edge of the tack strip is not attached to the sub-floor any more, but the linoleum seems to be in good shape, and is not broken into pieces.

We really don't want to disturb the linoleum; but is there a way for us to safely fix the problem? I am thinking about cutting off the narrow piece of linoleum along with the damaged floor and replace it with a same size of plywood, and then install new tack strip and cover it with the carpet.

How do you think about this? What cutting tools should I use? Is there a better way? Do we need the asbestos professionals to do this? Thanks so much.

This post was edited by zh1969 on Fri, May 2, 14 at 12:36