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Floor Finishes

There are many choices of flooring available, from polished concrete and resin floor screeds to tiles and slabs of stone, terracotta and ceramic and timber strip or parquet. Then there are the flexible floor coverings which include cork, leather, linoleum, rubber, vinyl and carpet. There may be a choice of finish offered for certain flooring – either polished, Matt, non-slip or textured.

 

Many types of flooring are represented at the Building Centre and you can download information on subjects such as access floors, entrance matting and flooring accessories such as adhesives and grouts from this website.
 

The Building Centre has several Information Sheets giving details of manufacturers and suppliers of specific types of flooring:

 

 

Product News

 

Tarkett Studio opens in Paris

03 February 2012 12:26 by Tarkett Limited

 

Tarkett Studio opens in Paris

 

The Tarkett Studio is a unique 4000m2 training centre and showroom on the outskirts of Paris. Showcasing Tarkett’s solutions for every type of interior environment through a sensorial experience it co...

 

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Popular Heckmondwike Carpet Ranges Updated To Offer New Colour Choices

24 January 2012 19:08 by Heckmondwike FB

 

Popular Heckmondwike Carpet Ranges Updated To Offer New Colour Choices

 

Heckmondwike has revealed details of its refreshed and updated Supacord and Broadrib fibrebonded carpet ranges. While the best of the elements that have helped both ranges become so widely accepted ha...

 

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Sainsbury's, Lewes Road Shopping Centre, Brighton

16 January 2012 12:55 by Ronacrete Ltd

 

Sainsbury's, Lewes Road Shopping Centre, Brighton

 

When the storage area on the first floor at the Lewes Road shopping centre in Brighton required a new floor topping, the main Contractor (The RG Group) called upon the services of specialist contracto...

 

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Hollytrees Museum, Colchester

13 January 2012 16:33 by Heckmondwike FB

 

Hollytrees Museum, Colchester

 

Heckmondwike’s popular Supacord carpet has been used to put the fun back into floorcovering in the form of an eye-catching carpet design at a museum in Colchester. The Hollytrees Museum now boasts a b...

 

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Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre, Blackwood

13 January 2012 16:22 by PlayRite Ltd

 

Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre, Blackwood

 

Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre near Blackwood is the third project that has seen Playrite, South Wales Sports Grounds and Caerphilly District Council working together to transform their artificial pitc...

 

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Industry News

 

£75m project gains innovative flooring

Published: 25/07/2011 10:10:22

 

" Cutting-edge flooring for a major building project at South Cheshire College is being provided by a UK company, it has emerged "

 

 

Sustainable floor system installed

Published: 10/06/2011 10:42:52

 

" A sustainable flooring system has been developed for the British Rail Board's office in Manchester "

 

 

School installs vinyl floor map

Published: 13/05/2011 08:29:58

 

" Flooring firms have installed an A-Z street map on the floor of a primary school in London "

 

 

Flowcrete launches flooring campaign

Published: 12/05/2011 08:24:48

 

" Industrial flooring firm Flowcrete has launched a campaign to help people get the best from their floors "

 

 

Altro Group makes best firms list

Published: 25/03/2011 10:32:13

 

" Anti-slip flooring specialists Altro Group has been named as the only manufacturing firm in the UK to make the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work For rundown "