Hand Scraped Wood Floor - Wood Floor Terms
Kiln: A chamber having controlled air flow, temperature and relative humidity for drying lumber, veneer and other wood products. Chatter Marks: Slight indentations causing a ripple effect on the surface of a wood floor. They are usually caused by sanding machines that have out of balance drums, bad drive belts or foreign objects stuck to the wheels. The marks are most noticeable on gloss finishes, in direct light areas or at eye level.
Thermal Conductivity: The rate of heat flow through a floor. Various resilient flooring materials have different characteristics which affect their conductance of heat flow to the top surface. With radiant heating methods (where instead of conventional radiators, pipes are laid into the subfloor of concrete, hot water or steam is passed through the pipes, and the room area is heated by warm temperatures rising through the floor and into the room), the thermal conductivity of floors does not present much of a problem (even with the thickest gauges of cork tile), but the resilient floor's resistance to indention may be lessened if the heating system delivers too high temperatures. With perimeter heating, where heat is supplied to a room through wall or ceiling pipe installations, wall and ceiling materials may be affected if the temperatures run too hot.
Hand Scraped Wood Floors Build Coat: A finishing material, usually of a transparent nature, used over the sealer or color coats and under the finishing coats to increase the fullness of the finished work.
Layout Lines: Lines chalked on a substrate to guide in accurately setting tile.
Hand Scraped Hardwood Floors Spray-buffing: The application and buffing of a dilute floor polish or a specially formulated spray-buffing compound. This procedure is especially useful in high-traffic areas. The liquid is sprayed on the floor and then immediately buffed with a floor machine until dry. This helps reduce the need for stripping by protecting the base coat of polish. To prevent pad or brush contact with the flooring material, spray buff only on clean floors with sufficient (three to five coats) polish.
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