In another segment of research commissioned by the World Floor Covering Association and conducted in August 2011 by Clear Seas Research, 494 consumers who remodeled/updated one or more rooms in the past six months and installed new flooring presented their views on green flooring.
Loose-lay resilient flooring is evolving at a rapid pace, with fiberglass-backed products growing quickly on the residential side and more commercial manufacturers looking at floating lvt products.
Cork flooring is in a growth mode thanks to efforts like the recently completed Décor(k) Tour, an event hosted by the Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) featuring a mobile showroom, which visited 16 cities across the U.S.
All floor tile installation methods in the 2011 TCNA Handbook will include a new category of information: Typical Weight of Tile Installation. Under this subhead, the Handbook user will find the estimated weight of the tile installation.
Anyone
who has installed a few square miles of tile can no doubt teach others some
lighting lessons about ceramic tile. Those with less experience typically give
little if any consideration to the critical effects of lighting on ceramic
tile.