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Flooring
Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.
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Reagent stain resistance
Construction; Flooring
Resistance to colour change/residue by common chemicals that floors are exposed to in specific end-use areas, like Betadine in hospital operating rooms, tempera paint in schools, or coffee in other ...
Ray fleck
Construction; Flooring
A part of a ray appearing very distinctly on the face of a quartersawn slat.
Plainsawn wood
Construction; Flooring
Wood that has been sawed from the hardwood log in such a manner so the growth rings form an angle from 00 to 450 with the surface.
Plain sawn
Construction; Flooring
The annual growth rings make an angle of less than 45 degrees with the surface of the piece. This exposes the pores of the springwood and dense summerwood of the annual growth ring in ring porous ...
Pin holes
Construction; Flooring
Small round holes (1/100 to 1/4 inch in diameter) in wood that results from the mining of ambrosia and similar beetles.
Pith
Construction; Flooring
The small, soft core occurring near the centre of a tree trunk, branch, twig or log.
Quarter round
Construction; Flooring
A molding, small in size, with the profile of a quarter circle. Frequently used as base moulding for resilient flooring.
