Flooring - Floor Laying - Refinishing & Re-Surfacing
Hardwood Floor Installation, Wood Flooring, Ceramic Tile, Stone, Terrazzo
Napa Valley, San Francisco North Bay, Ca. USA

Materials almost always classified as floor covering include carpet, area rugs, and resilient flooring such as linoleum or vinyl flooring. Materials sometimes termed floor covering and other times flooring include wood flooring, ceramic tile, stone, terrazzo, and various seamless chemical floor coatings. This page does not cover floor coverings which include carpeting or linoleum (although some suppliers may carry these products) but does include flooring.  If you are looking  for floor coverings click Here

Resilient flooring includes many different manufactured products including linoleum, sheet vinyl, vinyl composition tile, cork (sheet or tile), and others.

Many different species of wood are fabricated into flooring in two primary forms: plank and parquet. Bamboo flooring is also available. While bamboo is technically not a wood, bamboo flooring is installed and functions much like wood flooring.

Carpet is a floor covering woven or felted from natural or man-made fibers. In modern usage carpet is usually attached to the floor structure, extends wall-to-wall, and cannot be moved from place to place.

Rugs are also woven or felted from fibers, but are smaller than the room in which they are located, have a finished edge, and usually lie over another finished floor such as wood flooring. Rugs may either be temporarily attached to the flooring below by adhesive tape or other methods to prevent creep, or may be loose-laid.

Ceramic tile includes a wide variety of clay products fired into thin units which are set in beds of mortar or mastic with the joints between tiles grouted. Varieties include quarry tile, porcelain tile, terra cotta tile, and others.

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