What are the various kinds of floorings?
The purpose of a floor is to provide a horizontal sanitary surface to support the occupants of a building, furniture and equipment. A good floor should have strength and stability, resistance to dampness, good appearance, and freedom from maintenance etc. Following are the common floor finishes- Cement concrete flooring: It consists of 1:1.5:3 cement concrete laid to a thickness of 3″ to 4″, over a strong sub base. Top surface is smoothed with cement punning. It has got good wearing properties and can be easily cleaned and maintained. If thickness is less, the size of stone aggregates is limited to 1/2″. Terrazzo (Marble chips) flooring: It consists of an under layer of cement concrete 1:2:4 (stone aggregates size limited to 1/2″) of around 1″ thickness, and a top layer of containing marble chips of thickness 1/4″ to 1/2″. The under layer is laid over base concrete, generally, of 1:5:10 or 1:4:8 of 4″ thickness. The mix for the topping shall consist of cement with or without pigments,
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