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A color produced by the addition of another color to white tint base or stain. The act of adding the color to the white material is known as tinting.
Industry:Construction
A flat, thin piece of resilient material (such as cork, linoleum, rubber, solid vinyl, or vinyl composition) that is used to cover floors and can be installed as individual units. Tiles are usually square with sides of 9 to 24 inches. Most common are 12 inch by 12 inch tiles. They can also be rectangular with sides of 3 to 36 inches.
Industry:Construction
A molding designed for the purpose of completing an installation around or next to sliding glass door tracks, fireplaces, carpeting, ceramic tile, and other objects so as to maintain a proper expansion space next to Armstrong hardwood floors and to obtain a good transition. Threshold is 2" wide x 78" long and prefinished in urethane to blend with the floor or available unfinished.
Industry:Construction
The body on the work after the film of finishing material has thoroughly dried.
Industry:Construction
The property of softening when heated and hardening upon cooling.
Industry:Construction
The rate of heat flow through a floor. Various resilient flooring materials have different characteristics which affect their conductance of heat flow to the top surface. With radiant heating methods (where instead of conventional radiators, pipes are laid into the subfloor of concrete, hot water or steam is passed through the pipes, and the room area is heated by warm temperatures rising through the floor and into the room), the thermal conductivity of floors does not present much of a problem (even with the thickest gauges of cork tile), but the resilient floor's resistance to indention may be lessened if the heating system delivers too high temperatures. With perimeter heating, where heat is supplied to a room through wall or ceiling pipe installations, wall and ceiling materials may be affected if the temperatures run too hot.
Industry:Construction
When the irregularities, imperfections, or patterns of the substrate are visibly transmitted through the flooring.
Industry:Construction
A type of mosaic flooring made by embedding small pieces of marble, granite, glass or onyx in freshly placed mortar. The surface is usually hardened, ground, and polished.
Industry:Construction
That condition when a film of finishing material has reached the point that the surface can be touched lightly without a sensation of stickiness.
Industry:Construction
