- Author
- Sigler, P. A. | Koerner, E. A.
- Title
- Performance Test of Floor Coverings for Use in Low-Cost Housing. Part 2.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- BMS 43, February 13, 1940, 22 p.
- Keywords
- floor coverings | housing | costs | tests | adhesives | installations | bonding
- Abstract
- In the second series, 40 test installations were subjected to a performance test in the floor-testing chamber of the National Bureau of Standards. Included in the tests were battleship linoleum, rubber in sheet and tile form, felt-base floor coverings having various wearing surfaces, three monolithic floors, and a number of asphalt tiles. The bonding agents used included lignin pastes, resinous cements, latex adhesives, rubber cements, cut-back asphalt, and asphalt emulsions. Installations on both concrete and wood subfloors. Descriptions of the testing equipment and test installations are given. Results showing the relative depth of the depressions in the floor coverings during the test are presented in tables. Brief summaries showing the performance of the test panels are given, and the appearance of the different floor coverings after 48,000 cycles of the testing equipment is shown by representative photographs.