Out With Linoleum

This will be your new business! When the linoleum flooring has outlived its usefulness for a building or homeowner, you will remove and dispose of it! You can charge between 15 and 40 dollars an hour, per job, for the removal of their existing linoleum flooring.

Having a healthy home is an important issue for today's modern consumer and is among the highest of priorities to environmentally well-informed homebuyers. Because linoleum is a naturally based product made of renewable ingredients and has always been very popular in newer and older homes and buildings, the recycled linoleum products that are manufactured these days are in higher demand and are indistinguishable from non recycled-content products. Before these products can be recycled though, they need to be harvested from homes and businesses!

Generally, a linoleum floor can last between 25 and 40 years. Now look around your local neighborhoods. How many of those homes, businesses, and apartments are at least 25 years old? Since most buildings have linoleum somewhere in them, you have an endless supply of customers needing your services!

You will likely want to network with contractors and decorators in your area to find out which buildings will need your services before renovations can begin. Real Estate brokers are another part of the community you will want to be in contact with since they often recommend the replacement, or renovation, of an older home or buildings' flooring before putting t

em on the market. They can refer their owners to you to perform the necessary removals. Usually owners are in a hurry to have this happen so that they can list their home or building and make the most profit, so they will be eager for you to come and retrieve the existing linoleum flooring and dispose of it for them.

Some homes and buildings, you will find, have many layers of linoleum under a single floor surface. After you have removed the linoleum, your next step is disposing of it. You will likely want to have a mode of transportation, such as a pickup truck or other large vehicle to haul the old linoleum away. Then you have several disposal options. Since real linoleums consist of natural components, they are fully biodegradable and do not release harmful substances or gases such as chlorine and dioxins. Therefore, these linoleums are completely safe (and the ultimate recyclable!) to put in a landfill and can be safely disposed of at your local dump or transfer station. If you have an energy-recycling incineration plant nearby, incinerated linoleum burnt in such a plant produces energy comparable to that of coal, so that is yet another disposal option for you. Here and there, you may also find a local artist interested in taking that used linoleum off your hands for use in their art.

There is a second kind of flooring referred to as "linoleum" however that is vinyl and made of asbestos (and possibly CRYSTALLINE SILICA) and it cannot be placed into all landfills. You must take this kind of vinyl linoleum to a landfill that accepts asbestos-containing waste. Since floor tile is considered a non-friable (asbestos where the fibers cannot easily be made air-borne) material that doesn't emit airborne particles unless beaten, ground, sanded or broken, so linoleum of this type may be safe to work with, if it's not already crumbling. A non-asbestos contractor, if handled properly may safely remove non-friable asbestos. This includes no sawing, cutting, or beating apart the material or using any power tools to remove it. Precautions should be taken when removing non-friable material such as keeping breakage to a minimum and keeping the material wet when disturbing it. You may want to charge clients extra for removing and disposing of this sort of linoleum flooring. Friable Asbestos linoleum removal should only be done by a licensed professional. You may want to look into getting this kind of licensing in case this should come up, since the government closely regulates it.

You may want to advertise that you will dispose of all recyclable linoleum removed in an environmentally friendly way, thus attracting the notice of people who want to be earth-friendly in their home and building choices. You may also want to advertise your per-hour services, by running a visible ad in local newspapers and phone directories. List your business with an online business directory too, you might also print up flyers and post them in places where professionals and nonprofessional people in your area (who would be more likely to need your services) would more likely frequent. Be sure to include popular lunch places and coffee shops! Most post offices and grocery stores also have bulletin boards that they will allow you to place an advertisement on too. Be sure to take advantage of any public bulletin boards in your immediate area to find customers who are looking for you and your services. In no time at all, you will have built up a large client base, many by word of mouth as they witness your professional services in action!

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