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METAL FLOORING [4 records]

Record 1 2017-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Finish Carpentry (Wood Industries)
  • Rough Carpentry
CONT

Plane, dado grooving.... The stock is about 9-10 in long, related along the left-hand side. There is a depth stop made of wood or metal. The shavings are discharged through an outlet which is often gracefully tapered through the width of the stock.... The original use of these Planes was for cutting the grooves in flooring to take the tongue at the bottom edge of the skirting of the dado or half-panelling round the lower part of the wall in a room.

OBS

"Raglet", "flooring raglet" and "trenching plane" are terms used in Scotland.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Menuiserie (Industr. du bois)
  • Charpenterie
DEF

Outil à fût qui sert à pousser un tarabiscot.

CONT

Pour l'agrément des œuvres de menuiserie, il existe divers outils à orner et à sculpter qui servent avant tout à produire des moulures [...] Ainsi, près des «guillaumes courts», «droits», «cintrés», «à navette», «à plates-bandes», «de côté», est-il bon de ranger les «gorges», les «gorgets», les «tarabiscots», les «grains d'orge», les «doucines à baguettes» et autres «talons renversés».

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slabs and Floor Surfacing (Building Elements)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
  • Interior Covering Materials
CONT

Magnesite flooring compound is made from calcined magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride. These materials are mixed into a plastic state and applied to the floor in two separate coats.... Magnesite flooring is applied over either a wood or concrete base. Sometimes metal lath is laid over a wood base.... Marble chips may be added to the freshly poured surface and rolled in to produce magnesite terrazzo.

CONT

Magnesite Flooring System. High quality, Class A fire-retardant system for interior and exterior walking deck and stair surfaces. Beauty, quality, strength and low maintenance make this highly fire-rated flooring system the perfect choice for many of your applications. A special formulation of magnesium oxychloride cement with inert fillers and aggregates, Magnesite is easily installed over any structurally sound subfloor and can be sloped to promote drainage. It can be applied in a wide variety of textures, patterns, designs and finishes to achieve virtually any architectural effects desired.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dallages et chapes (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
  • Revêtements intérieurs
CONT

En principe un dallage magnésien est constitué par un mélange de magnésie, d'amiante, de farine, de sciure de bois et de silice, avec quelquefois du talc et de l'alumine, le tout gâché avec de l'eau dans laquelle est dissous du chlorure de magnésium.

CONT

On recouvre parfois le sol de dallages magnésiens (type Terrazolith, Porphyrolithe), appliqués normalement en deux couches successives [...] Le support est constituée généralement, soit par une forme en béton de gravillon sur terre-plein, soit par un plancher en B. A. [béton armé] ou métallique [...]

Key term(s)
  • sol magnésien

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joints and Connections (Construction)
  • Finish Carpentry
DEF

A strip of wood made fast(as by bolting) to a surface(as a concrete or metal) unsuitable for nailing in order to provide a means of attaching something(as flooring or lathing) by nailing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joints et assemblages (Construction)
  • Menuiserie
DEF

Planche qu'on pose sur une surface dure pour permettre d'y clouer quelque chose.

DEF

Pièces, généralement en bois, intégrées ou fixées au platelage et aux murs non clouables pour permettre une fixation solide par clouage des feutres de couverture, de l'isolant ou des solins.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Juntas y conexiones (Construcción)
  • Carpintería
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Record 4 1999-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Slabs and Floor Surfacing (Building Elements)
  • Carpets and Floor Coverings
  • Floors and Ceilings
CONT

Dex-O-Tex Terracolor is a thin-section, trowel applied decorative flooring designed to produce a jointless floor and base. Terracolor is installed at 1/4"(6, 33 mm) thickness. Terracolor consists of decorative aggregates embedded in a colored epoxy matrix. It is finished with clear epoxy resins which offer superior scratch resistance and withstand heavy abuse and impact. Dex-O-Tex Terracolor may be applied over concrete, metal, or wood substrates...

CONT

Granolithic Flooring is a jointless flooring made from sand, cement and granite chippings floated over a concrete floor. It produces a smooth, very hard wearing surface which cannot be painted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dallages et chapes (Éléments du bâtiment)
  • Tapis et revêtements de sol
  • Planchers et plafonds
DEF

Revêtement de sol en matériaux de peu d'épaisseur et d'assez grande surface : [...] en dalles [...] de pierre [...] en briques [...] en ciment magnésien [...] en asphalte [...] en granito.

CONT

Les parquets sans joints désignaient certains revêtements de sols épais à base de mélanges spéciaux ou mortiers de résines, coulés in-situ; [...]

OBS

Le terme «parquet sans joints» figure à la source LAROG 1982 dans la définition du terme «ciment magnésien».

Spanish

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