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Armstrong World Industries
Industry: Construction
Number of terms: 2218
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Made from a special kind of vinyl resin which is suspended in plasticizer and stabilizer to make it pourable as a liquid for coating purposes.
Industry:Construction
Dowels that simulate the Colonial American plugged or pegged plank look. They are used to cover countersunk screws when installing wood flooring or for decorative purposes in wood flooring.
Industry:Construction
The migration of the plasticizer in the flooring to the adhesive. This causes unwanted softening of the adhesive and may lead to release of the bond.
Industry:Construction
Solid or Engineered/Laminated boards 3" and wider designed to be installed in parallel rows. Edges may be beveled to simulate the appearance of Colonial American plank floors.
Industry:Construction
Special oils developed to impart flexibility and special properties like stain resistance to plastics, like PVC; they are added in the compounding step to the vinyl resin. The most common plasticizer used in vinyl is called DOP short for, dioctyl phthalate (pronounced "die-octil-thal-ate").
Industry:Construction
A groove cut in the surface of the edge of a parquet slat or on the face of a 3/4" solid strip, deeper than intended by the planer knives.
Industry:Construction
A drawing representing a projection of any one of the floors or horizontal cross sections of a building or of the horizontal plane of any object or area.
Industry:Construction
Wood that has been sawed from the hardwood log in such a manner so the growth rings form an angle from 00 to 450 with the surface.
Industry:Construction
The annual growth rings make an angle of less than 45 degrees with the surface of the piece. This exposes the pores of the springwood and dense summerwood of the annual growth ring in ring porous woods to produce a pronounced grain pattern.
Industry:Construction
Small round holes (1/100 to 1/4 inch in diameter) in wood that results from the mining of ambrosia and similar beetles.
Industry:Construction