 Ken Moon answers your questions around the house. One of my listeners lives in a 1950s-era home, and she has some fiber-like ceiling tile in the basement. She wants to know if it contains asbestos and what to do about it. Well, it might contain asbestos. Listen, houses built before the mid-1970s had asbestos in various forms. Maybe the drywall taping and texturing compounds wrapped around old furnace ducts from those old gravity-based furnaces. Perhaps the VA tile, vinyl asbestos tile in the kitchen, or that drywall.