Ding, dong, the carpet's gone!

I am thrilled to absolute bits by Hubbyfink's progress in the basement. He removed the carpet from the stairs and basement hallway on Saturday and pulled up the carpet covering the basement den floor today. What a tremendous change! We'd assumed the carpet and pad were laid atop concrete, but we were wrong: vinyl tiles lurked beneath the carpet. I'd rather not remove them, but Hubbyfink has discovered that the tiles are disintegrating as he pulls up the tack strips. Because of the age of our house and the suspected vintage of the tiles, he's putting the remainder of tack strip removal on hold pending a visit from an asbestos testing specialist.