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Medieval Flooring & Encaustic Tile

Architectural Ceramics

The image above shows the tiled floor of Winchester Cathedral , which boasts the largest area of original medieval tiles in the United Kingdom! Come with us back in time to learn a few quick facts about medieval flooring, from stone to encaustic! The image above shows the intricate detail that was put into floor mosaics.

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Armstrong Flooring offers digital CEU courses

Floor Covering News

Armstrong Flooring is offering a series of online continuing education unit courses in April to make it easy for designers to enhance their knowledge and earn CEUs even when in-person sessions aren’t an option. EST. This course provides insight into specifying luxury vinyl tile that achieves WELL Building Standard Features.

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Lux Flooring’s laser focus on SPC

Floor Covering News

Lux Flooring’s SPC products feature a 22-mil thickness and a virgin stone core for added durability. W hile some flooring companies aim to be many different things to many different retailers—providing a breadth of product categories from wood to resilient to ceramic—Lux Flooring’s focus is singular: SPC luxury vinyl flooring.

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Are you up-to-date on COF?

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

The standards for COF have changed, and any individual or firm involved in the manufacture, specification, sales, installation, or maintenance of ceramic tile floors should understand the new requirements for tile. You didn’t know the standard for tile and COF had changed? standard and is commonly known as the DCOF AcuTest sm.

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NWFA sustainability program accepted into NAHB Green Building Standard

Floor Covering News

Louis—The National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) Responsible Procurement Program ( RPP ) has been accepted into the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) new ICC 700-2020 National Green Building Standard (NGBS).

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Renew Lab Partners adds PTL to the stable

Floor Covering News

acquired Dalton-based Professional Testing Laboratory (PTL), a leading testing company that works with players across the floor covering industry. These include: carpet, underlayment, fibers, fabrics, turf, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, wood, LVT, SPC and other resilient flooring, vacuums, cleaning chemicals and automotive parts.

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Johnsonite rubber tile offers 20% lower carbon footprint

Floor Covering News

All Johnsonite products are made in the United States at plants that operate on closed-loop water systems and 100% renewable energy. Simultaneously, we’ve responded to customer demand for products that contribute to green building certification standards with Cradle to Cradle Certified products.