Flooring

Flooring

Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.

Industry: Construction

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Retarder

Construction; Flooring

A slowly evaporating solvent that decreases the evaporation rate or slows up the drying of lacquers and similar materials.

Resiliency

Construction; Flooring

The ability of a material to resume it's former shape after mechanical deformation.

Rolling loads

Construction; Flooring

Initial 72 Hours: Newly installed flooring should not be exposed to routine rolling traffic (carts, litters, gurneys, etc.) for at least 72 hours after installation to allow setting and drying of ...

Ring shank nail

Construction; Flooring

Headed nail for underlayment installation with rings on the shaft (shank) to improve the holding characteristics.

Rift sawn

Construction; Flooring

Lumber (primarily hardwoods) in which the annual rings make angles of 30 degrees to 60 degrees with the surface of the piece. Also known as bastard sawn.

A group of hardwoods in which the pores are comparatively large at the beginning of each annual growth ring and decrease in size, more or less abruptly, toward the outer portion of the annual growth ...

Screeds

Construction; Flooring

Usually a 2"x4" (50MM x 100MM) pieceo f wood laid flat side down and attached to a concrete subfloor to provide a nailing surface for tongue and groove strip flooring or a wood subfloor.