Category: Floors

Floor coverings are provided to improve the appearance, cleanliness, noiselessness and damp proofing. Various types of materials are used and different treatments are done. The following types of floor coverings are generally employed. Mud flooring This is mainly used in unimportant buildings, particularly in the villages. They are cheap, hard, fairly impervious and easy in…

The various types of floor commonly used are as follows. Basement or ground timber floor Timber floors are constructed on ground floors, generally in theatres. Several sleeper walls or dwarf walls of half brick thickness or full brick thickness are constructed at an interval of 1.5 m to support the timber floor. Wall plates are…

Floors are provided to divide a building into different levels for creating more accommodation one above the other within a certain limited space. The bottom floor near the ground is known as the ground floor and the other floors above it are termed as upper floors, like first floor and second floor. If there is…