No matter how many interior design shows or magazines you follow, you will always find designers paying careful attention to the marble flooring. That’s because marble is timeless and its beauty is truly unmatched. Marble flooring is affordable, blends well ...
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Category: Flooring
There are various types of flooring options in building construction. This section categorizes all these option at one place.
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How to Lay Brick On-Edge Flooring?
Brick on-edge flooring is developed based on the concept that bricks laid on edge give a better performance than when laid flat. The burnt clay bricks, as a flooring material, have good wearing quality and facilitate quick installation due to ...
Type of Soft Flooring: Advantages, Disadvantages, and Maintenance
Soft flooring, also known as resilient flooring, acts as a secondary floor to any type of hard flooring. The addition of this highly elastic layer reduces footfalls and muffles the noise to a great extent as compared to a single ...
How to Lay Terrazzo Tile Flooring? [PDF]
The laying of terrazzo flooring can be carried out by two methods, namely, In-situ laying and precast terrazzo tiles laying. The terrazzo flooring laid using precast terrazzo tiles flooring, its specifications, and laying procedure is discussed below. The In-situ terrazzo ...
10 Types of Stones Used for Building Constructions
Many types of stones are available such as basalt, marble, limestone, sandstone, quartzite, travertine, slate, gneiss, laterite, and granite which can be used as construction materials. The stones used for building construction should be hard, durable, tough, and should be ...
12 Factors Affecting Selection of Flooring Material
Flooring can be done using different materials such as timber, concrete, marble, stones, bricks, cork, etc. All of these materials have different properties. Hence, the flooring material is selected based on various factors which are described in this article. Factors ...
Burnished Concrete – Types, Uses and Benefits
Burnished concrete is conventional concrete trowelled more than twice to make the concrete surface hard-wearing with a durable finish and a great surface lustre. It is majorly used in residential and commercial buildings. In this article, we discuss the work ...
Mix Ratio of Sand-Cement Screed for Floors
Mix ratio of sand and cement screed for floor varies based on the intended use of the screed. Added to that, cement type, grade of aggregate and the method of storage of screed material influence the mix ratio to a ...