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The prescription and application of resilient floor coverings has its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was at this time that the first carpets appeared (produced in small widths on the same looms as dimensional carpets). These were not yet building products, but they were used for decoration and completed the range of possible floor coverings - parquet, tiles, marble, etc. - that were available.
Linoleum, on the other hand, invented in 1863 by the British Frédéric WALTON, has applications much more suited to building constraints. But the market for linoleum was still in its infancy, and would only develop in the first half of the twentieth century...
The first half of this century also saw the appearance of rubber flooring.
The industrial maturity of resilient...
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We limit ourselves to quoting the reference documents used by the profession for the application of coatings on the one hand, and the identification of manufactured products on the other.
Some of these documents refer to other works of related professions, in particular those concerning the construction of different substrates. We have chosen to quote them here: installing a resilient floor...
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CSTB Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment http://www.cstb.fr
UFTM French Union of Carpets and Rugs http://www.moquette-uftm.com
APICTARS Association for the Promotion of the Carpet and Floor Covering Industry...
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