FLOORS AND FLOOR FINISHES

Factors of selection of flooring:

•Aesthetic appeal

•Comfort

•Durability

•Life Expectancy

•Safety

•Ease Of Cleaning

•Cost

CHOOSING FLOORING

Classification Of Floorings

Floors

Hard Finishes Semi-Hard Finishes Soft

Marble Cork Carpets

Sandstone Rubber

Brick Linoleum

Wood P.V.C

Stone Vinyl Asbestos

Concrete

Ceramic

By degree of porosity

Floors

Porous Semi-Porous Non-Porous

Wood Vinyl Ceramic

Cork Linoleum Stone

Magnesite Rubber Marble

By origin of materials

Vegetable Plastic Stone

Wood Rubber Marble

Cork Thermoplastic Concrete

Linoleum Bitumastic Slate

Magnesite

Cementatious Flooring:

-- Granolithic-

These flooring can be placed in situ. It has Granite chips,

can be used near laundry areas, cloakrooms (entrances) & entrances of the hotels.

-- Terrazo-

It has marble chips, different colours

can be placed in situ or precast tiles if the marble chips are bigger

Used in areas like lobby/ decorative areas

Ceramic tiles -- Quarry (clay)

Base is clay, Size available- 10, 15, 23 cm Square.

available in browns, red, blues.these tiles form an impervious, hard wearing surface used in kitchen areas, cloak rooms

-- Tessellated tiles are small ceramic tiles often used as mosaics, giving a highly decorative floor (Tumbled mosaic).

Ceramic tiles with hard glaze & a wide range of colors can also be used as more decorative flooring.

Natural Stone: Kota, Marble, Granite, Red sand-stone, Quartzite & slate. Widely found in churches public buildings, institutions, etc.,

Laid on screened concrete sub floor & bedded in a mortar or cement grout.

Bitumastic : It is with gravel, joint less flooring with asphalt content. It absorbs water & is not s very resilient flooring.

Magnesite: combination of burnt magnesite & sore wood flour. Laid in situ in the form of small blocks. Extremely porous, harmed by water, chemicals.

Italian Marble

Verde Alpi Issogne Verde Guatemala

Statuarietto Statuario Extra

Thassos

Thassos

Rosso Verena, Verena red

Rosso Levanto

Rosa Norvegia,

Norwegian Rose Contd…

Perlino Bianco

Noir St. Laurent

Noir St. Laurent Giallo Reale

Fior Di Pesco Carnico Crema Valencia Calacatta Gold, Calacatta

Oro

Botticino Fiorito Botticino Classico Bianco Venatino Contd.

Bianco Carrara D

Bianco Carrara C

Arabescato Vagli

Types of wood

Wood Flooring

Hard Wood Soft Wood

•Soft wood was used as sub floors for rooms.

•Wood can be used as sheets, patterns, tiles.

• Wood cannot be used in wet areas of the guestrooms

Wood Flooring

•Strip Wood Flooring•Consists of lengths of hard wood strips less than 10 cm wide.

•The strips are fixed to joists or to timber insets in concrete.

•Has resilience and is very suitable for ballroom floors, gymnasia etc.

•Wood Block FlooringConsists of either hard or soft wood blocks often laid in a herringbone pattern or panels about 45 cm square.

Parquet FlooringConsists of rectangular pieces of wood (23x 7.6 cm and less than 10 mm thick).

Patterns

Patterns Of Parquet Flooring

Designs and Sizes Of Parquet Flooring

Linoleum: combination of powdered cork, resins, linseed oil & pigments, put on a jute canvas & subjected to heat & pressure. Further treatment given to harden it. Can be used in places like linen rooms, offices.

Rubber: responsible for sound insulation, gets damaged by heat application, sunlight. Used in areas like bars,entrance halls, etc.

Thermoplastic: combination of Asphalt & have inert fillers & pigments, can be found in sheet form, tile. Used in bathrooms, corridors, offices.

Shades Of Vinyl Flooring

Maintenance and Care

Daily Cleaning

Special Cleaning

Maintenance/Upkeep

Sealing

Finishing

Stripping