flooring
Sign in to saveFlooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
Research
127,902 papers- Hospital flooring safety and health: knowledge gaps and suggestions.International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE · 2021
- Different flooring surfaces affect infants' crawling performance.Applied ergonomics · 2022
- Shock-absorbing flooring for fall-related injury prevention in older adults and staff in hospitals and care homes: the SAFEST systematic review.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2022
- Compliant flooring to prevent fall-related injuries in older adults: A scoping review of biomechanical efficacy, clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and workplace safety.PloS one · 2017
- The SAFEST review: a mixed methods systematic review of shock-absorbing flooring for fall-related injury prevention.BMC geriatrics · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Subfloor
- Flooring materials
- Carpeting
- Installation Methods
- Carpet underlay
- Wood flooring
- Laminate
- Hybrid flooring
- Hard flooring
- Polished concrete
- Resilient flooring
- Seamless polymer flooring
- Sustainable flooring
- Features
- See also
- References
Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
Materials almost always classified as flooring include carpet, laminate, tile, and vinyl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “flooring” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.