Flooring

Flooring

Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.

Contributors in Flooring

Flooring

Nails which have been coated with a resin or other type of coating which gives the nails better staying power. This helps prevent the nails from working back up from the underlayment and causing what ...

Closed specification

Construction; Flooring

An architect's specification for one manufacturer's material only.

Boiling point

Construction; Flooring

The temperature at which the vapour pressure of a liquid equals the air pressure, or the temperature at which a liquid begins to boil.

Body

Construction; Flooring

A.) Often used to describe the consistency of viscosity of a finishing material. It's also used to describe the fullness or thickness of film on the work. b.) The consistency of an adhesive.

Boards

Construction; Flooring

Manufactured from reconstituted wood particles as opposed to wafers or strands. Commonly referred to as flakeboard or chipboard, these panels are comprised of small particles usually arranged in ...

Board foot

Construction; Flooring

A unit of measurement of lumber represented by a board 1 foot long, 12 inches wide and 1 inch thick or its cubic equivalent. In practice, the board foot calculation for lumber 1 inch or more in ...

Brush marks

Construction; Flooring

Marks of the brush that remain in the dried film of a finishing material. They are caused by working the material after its solvents have evaporated to the point that the flowing power has been lost ...