- Author
- Sigler, P. A. | Koerner, E. A.
- Title
- Performance Test of Floor Coverings for Use in Low-Cost Housing. Part 4.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
- BMS 80, March 2, 1942, 23 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 fourth series of 40 test installations involving 26 different floor coverings. Specimens of most of the floor coverings were installed on both a concrete and a wood subfloor. Included in the test were cork tiles, rubber tile containing aluminum oxide aggregate, asphalt tile, marbleized linoleums, felt-backed floor coverings having various wearing surfaces, strip maples, maple unit-block, pecan unit-block, asphalt mastic, coal-tar mastic, alumina cement-rubber latex composition, magnesium oxychloride composition, and 1:2:4 portland cement concrete. Different underlays and adhesives were also included in the test. The test installations are described and results showing the depth of the depressions in the floor coverings made by the equipment are presented in tables. Brief summaries of the manner in which the various test installations performed are given, and their appearance at the end of the test is shown by photographs. A few generalized comments and conclusions are made.