Black and white
asphalt tile covered the floor and there were no pictures of any type on the wall.
A standard
asphalt tile with a dissipative wax commonly used in commercial applications (grocery stores, offices, some manufacturing) is shown in Figure 7.
Outside our window is my neighbor's gray
asphalt tile rooftop.
Asbestos is a known carcinogen that was used to many products including vinyl tile,
asphalt tile, sheet flooring and adhesives made until 1980.
On one occasion, I volunteered to lay an
asphalt tile floor over the existing concrete slab in the basement pool hall.
The restrained treatment of the interior, where the architects use materials that one associates with the exterior, namely
asphalt tile flooring and exposed concrete, makes it feel surprisingly spacious.
These days, many homes are built with
asphalt tiles that have been coated with tiny granules.
Whole sides of streets have houses boarded up -- gratified, broken windows, roofs started to bend and cave,
asphalt tiles curling and lifting, gutters falling, cars left half junked.
I could have chosen the much more expensive remedy of replacing the black
asphalt tiles with new solar-reflective ones, instead I chose an elastomeric coating that is highly reflective, durable, easy to apply, less expensive, and available at home improvement stores.
Prefab siding covers the wood frame;
asphalt tiles cloak the roof.