All Building articles in Specifier 19 January 2007
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Features
What to specify: flooring
Everything you could possibly want to do to a floor is covered this week, from laying it, carpeting it, heating it, colouring it and protecting it, to fixing balconies and inserting sockets into it.
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Features
What to remember: Floor screed
Don’t want to lay your fancy finish on that bumpy, lumpy sub-floor? You need a decent screed – but there’s more to applying one than mixing cement and sand, says Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg
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FeaturesDry stone flooring
Stanhope was sick of waiting around for screed to dry, so it asked some suppliers to work out a way of doing without it. Thomas Lane kicks off a flooring special by explaining how they did just that.
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FeaturesDome improvements
WHO FITS IT - Mark Holden of 4m tells Building about the intricacies of laying down resin flooring in the Millennium Dome
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FeaturesSporting chance
WHO MAKES IT - Gerflor’s French staff were sick as parrots when London won the 2012 Olympics. But the UK office was over the moon – it had big plans to supply floors to the new arenas.