Flooring

Flooring

Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.

Contributors in Flooring

Flooring

A measure of the solvent power of petroleum thinners, expressed as the number of millilitres of the product under test required to cause cloudiness or turbidity in 20 grammes of a solution of Kauri ...

Hot-melt calendering

Construction; Flooring

New technology used to melt a vinyl wear-layer into the calender and immediately place it onto a calendered backing material for a composite structure.

High solids

Construction; Flooring

A general term used to denote the presence of a higher than average percentage of solid ingredients and thus a lower percentage of solvents.

High-speed buffer

Construction; Flooring

A floor machine designed for buffing and spray-buffing at speeds of 300 to 1100 rpm. (For machines in the 1100 to 2000 plus rpm range, see Ultra High-Speed buffer.)

Heterogeneous sheet flooring

Construction; Flooring

Floor surfacing in sheet form consisting of a wear layer and other layers which differ in composition and/or design and may contain a reinforcement. (Sometimes called layered composite or backed ...

Heartwood

Construction; Flooring

The inner portion of the log that dies. Its is generally darker in colour than sapwood.

Hardness

Construction; Flooring

That property of the wood species or dried film of finishing material that causes it to withstand denting or being marked when pressure is exerted on its surface by an outside object or force.