The Flooring Handbook: The Complete Guide to Choosing and Installing Floors Book

Getting Started

1. Choosing the right floor
2. Planning, design and layout
3. Tools and materials
4. Preparing the site

Hard Floors

1. Installing hard floors
2. Cutting hard tiles
3. Ceramic and clay
4. Laying a ceramic or clay floor
5. Terra-cotta
6. Laying a terra-cotta floor
7. Mosaic
8. Laying a mosaic floor
9. Slate
10. Laying a slate floor
11. Limestone and sandstone
12. Laying a limestone or sandstone floor
13. Brick
14. Laying a brick floor
15. Marble and granite
16. Terrazzo
17. Metal
18. Glass

Resilient Floors

1. Installing resilient floors
2. Vinyl
3. Laying a vinyl floor
4. Cork
5. Laying a cork floor
6. Linoleum
7. Laying a linoleum floor
8. Rubber
9. Laying a rubber floor
10. Leather
11. Laying a leather floor

Wood Floors

1. Installing wood floors
2. Wood
3. Laying a floating wood floor
4. Laying a glued solid-wood floor
5. Laying a nailed solid-wood floor
6. Finishing a wood floor
7. Renovating a wood floor
8. Laminate
9. Laying a laminated floor

Soft Floors

1. Installing soft floors
2. Carpet
3. Laying a carpeted floor
4. Natural fiber
5. Laying a natural-fiber floor

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