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FINISHES >> FLOORING
1. What Should I Know about Flooring?
2. What Public Domain Documents are Available for Further Study?
3. Tips of the Trade & Rules of Thumb for Flooring:
What Should I Know about Flooring?
Usually the last of the trades to complete, the flooring gets seen first by visitors to the project. Like the other finish trades, if the substrate under the finish material is done poorly, the finish material will reflect that. So the time to get the flooring (or the painting) right is way before the Flooring Contractor gets on site. But those Concrete and Carpentry Trades are covered elsewhere in this site.
There are so many flooring options, I'll just cover a few of them here. Carpet products and options get explained well in this Shaw Floors website. Vinyl sheet flooring and Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT) are prominently displayed in this Armstrong Flooring website. Ceramic tile can add great beauty to a project and the Conestoga Tile website shows lots of useful information. The FAQs provide ceramic tile basics that you should know.
The A-1 Wood Flooring website provides information on all types of wood flooring products as well as tips and resources. On the industrial side, seamless epoxy floors are described in the Florock website. Terrazzo floors, often used in institutional settings, are described in the National Terrazzo and Mosaic Flooring Association website.
What Public Domain Documents are Available for Further Study?
No information available at this time.
Tips of the Trade & Rules of Thumb for Flooring:
- If you care about the long term wear on the carpet, lay out the seams carefully with the Flooring Contractor during the submittal approvals.
- Think about how floor drains will be used and what the surrounding floor slopes must be to make them really work.
- Use light colored grout in ceramic tile only if you are a masochist.