FLOORS AND FLOOR

FINISHES
 CHOOSING FLOORING
Factors of selection of flooring:
•Aesthetic appeal
•Comfort
•Durability
•Life Expectancy
•Safety
•Ease Of Cleaning
•Cost
 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

Thassos

Verde Alpi Issogne Verde Guatemala Thassos Rosso Levanto

Statuarietto Statuario Extra Rosso Verena, Rosa Norvegia,

Verena red
Norwegian Rose
Contd…
 Perlino Bianco Noir St. Laurent Giallo Reale

Noir St. Laurent

Calacatta Gold, Calacatta

Fior Di Pesco Carnico Crema Valencia
Oro

Bianco Venatino
Botticino Fiorito Botticino Classico Contd.
 Bianco Carrara D

Bianco Carrara C

Arabescato Vagli
 Wood Flooring
Types of wood

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 Flooring

Consists of either hard or soft wood blocks often laid in a herringbone
pattern or panels about 45 cm square.

Parquet Flooring
Consists 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