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MATERIAU DESTINE CONFECTION REVETEMENTS SOL [1 record]

Record 1 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Interior Covering Materials
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
DEF

Material suitable for use as a floor.

CONT

Flooring materials. This chapter deals with the final wearing surface which is applied over the subfloor. A great many materials are used as flooring. ... Flooring materials include wood, concrete, clay, asphalt, terrazzo, plastics, magnesite, rubber, cork, and carpet.

CONT

... resilient floor tiles are excellent flooring materials....

OBS

finish flooring: not to be confused with "finish floor" (see record).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Revêtements intérieurs
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
CONT

Le Document technique unifié no 52-1 d'octobre 1973 précise d'une part les qualités à exiger des matériaux destinés à la confection des revêtements de sol scellés; d'autre part, les conditions normales de pose de ces éléments, y compris la préparation des supports.

CONT

Le Trisol est un revêtement de sol livré en rouleau de 30 m de longueur et 1,50 m. de largeur utile.

OBS

[...] dans la construction d'un plancher, le matériau de finition est appelé plancher, alors que la sous-finition ou le matériau de base est appelé plancher brut ou sous-plancher.

OBS

Selon le lexique de la charpenterie préparé par le Comité du projet de lexiques du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Formation du Nouveau-Brunswick, le terme «matériau couvre-plancher» est fautif.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Revestimientos para interiores
  • Alfombras y revestimientos para suelos
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