Flooring

Flooring

Of or pertaining to the laying or building of floors.

Industry: Construction

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Adhesive bleeding

Construction; Flooring

Undesired migration of materials in the adhesive to the surface of the floor between tile joints.

The property that causes one material to stick to another. Adhesion is affected by the condition of the surface to be coated and by the closeness of contact, as well as by the molecular forces of the ...

Addenda

Construction; Flooring

The portion of an architect's specification that is added after the specification when a building project is written.

Acrylic/wood

Construction; Flooring

The generic name for wood/plastic composites using wood impregnated with acrylic monomers and polymerized within the wood cells.

Acclimation

Construction; Flooring

The act of allowing wood moisture content to become at equilibrium with the environment in which it will perform (See EMC, Equilibrium Moisture Content)

Above-grade level

Construction; Flooring

A suspended floor located above the surface of the ground, over a well-ventilated air space with at least 18 inches between the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member and any point of the ...