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2012-08-01 VINYL FLOORING PROBLEMS – INDENTATIONS

Vinyl flooring is being used and specified more and more.  Schools, Hospitals and Health Care facilities are the biggest users of vinyl flooring products but it is also being used extensively in businesses, restaurants, and increasingly in mid-tier hotels and even...

2012-07-01 WHAT CONSTITUTES WEAR IN FLOORING MATERIALS

This has been a concern for as long as there has been floor covering. Old materials consisted of dull and lifeless looking hard surface tiles or sheet goods.  The old Battleship linoleums, mostly gray in color or hard surface tiles that were brown, reddish brown,...

2012-05-01 FLOORING: MERCHANTABILITY FOR INTENDED PURPOSE OF USE

Merchantability for service and fitness for intended purpose of use is a promise, arising by operation of law, that something that is sold will be merchantable and fit for the purpose for which it is sold.  An item is deemed merchantable if it is reasonably fit for...

2012-04-01 THE FLOORING DISASTERS: PREVENTION AND RECOVERY WEBINAR

The title of this issue of the Commercial Flooring Report mirrors the title of a 60 minute webinar we did for Buildings VIP and Buildings. (The term webinar is short for Web-based seminar, a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web)....

2012-03-01 HOW MUCH CURL IS ACCEPTABLE

We are running an article that was originally posted in April of 2011 with additional information because of the sheer number or complaints coming in for curling and lifting edges on carpet tile.  Too many of these problems are being blamed on everything but the...