Flooring Dictionary

• Anti-Fracture Membrane - It acts as a bridge. A Product that produces a layer that goes over the crack so movement in the concrete is not directly transferred to tile. 

• Baby Threshold - A carpet or other floor covering transition which has A minor vertical height difference. Also used in sliding door areas.

• Backer Board - Commonly used as a tile base on plywood or oriented strand board sub floor

• Brad Nails - a thin nail with the same thickness throughout with tapering in width

• Caulking Gun - Used to apply caulking in areas like the top or bottom of baseboard or other trims

• Engineered Hardwood - Floors that made up of multiple layers and quality engineered floors can later be refinished

• Felt Pads - Used to protect your floors and are placed at the bottom of your chairs, tables, furniture, or other objects that can damage your floors

• Floor Nailer - Used to install wood floors and is attached to your air compressor

• Floor Stapler - Used to install wood floors and is attached to your air compressor

• Flooring Cutter - A machine that is commonly used to cut laminate and luxury vinyl floors

• Flooring Jack - Gets your wood or laminate boards tight and is used around the wall

• Flooring Mallet - Used to assist in the installation of your wood flooring

• Grout Float - A float helps assist with the grouting of your tiles

• Jamb Saw - Commonly used to undercut trims around your doors and baseboards

• Laminate Spacers - Installed at the wall of your laminate flooring during installation. Helps keep the proper gap needed during your floating floor installatio

• LVP - Luxury Vinyl Plank is modern waterproof flooring that has a wood look to it and there is a tile look to some products as well

• Miter Saw - Most common saw for your hardwood, laminate, luxury vinyl flooring cuts

• Moisture Meter - Used to measure moisture in the concrete prior to installation. Too much moisture will lead to floor failures.

• One Sided Reducer - A transition used to a flat surface

• Pry Bar - Used to help move the floor in close corners and close to the wall

• Quarter Round - Used against baseboard to allow expansion space

• Reducer - A reducer is used as a transition from an elevated floor down to a flat floor/surface

• Solid Hardwood - Wood that is the same all the way through. There are no layers in solid hardwood unlike Engineered. 

• Stair Nosing - A piece that is used during stair installation at the front of the the step

• Table Saw - Commonly used to make long vertical cuts on you hardwood, laminate, and LVP flooring

• Tapping Block -It helps protect the tongue and groove along with the plank from being damaged when you are installing your floors

• T-Molding - A floor molding used to transition one floor covering to another.

• Trowel - Helps spread the tinset and adhesive correctly on your sub-floor

• Underlayment - Used in many different ways for your floor covering. Laminate, Hardwood, and Luxury Vinyl all have different uses.

• Wood Adhesive - Commonly used for engineered hardwood as solids are commonly stapled/nailed down.

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