- Author
- Sigler, P. A. | Koerner, E. A.
- Title
- Performance Test of Floor Coverings for Use in Low-Cost Housing. Part 3.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- BMS 68, January 31, 1941, 25 p.
- Keywords
- floor coverings | housing | costs | tests | adhesives | installations | bonding
- Abstract
- A performance test was conducted in the floor-testing chamber of the National Bureau of Standards on a third series of 40 test installations. Included in the tests were linoleums in sheet and tile form, cork-composition tile, sheet rubber, rubber tile, asphalt tiles, fiberboard tiles, felt-base floor coverings having various wearing surfaces, three monolithic floors, and a number of wood floors. The bonding agents used included lignin pastes, cumar-resin cement, alumina cement-latex paste, rubber cements, various asphaltic adhesives, and nails. Installations were made on concrete, strip-wood, and plywood subfloors. Installations on strip-wood subfloors were made with underlays of dry and asphalt-saturated lining felts. 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 of the manner in which the various test installations performed are given, and photographs of the test panels after 48,000 cycles of the testing equipment are shown.