MAT (FLOORS / WALLS / CEILING 2)

Wood

Popular residential application and by far the most often specified type of wood flooring for commercial application

Solid Wood

a term most commonly used to distinguish between ordinary lumber and engineered wood, but it also refers to structures that do not have hollow spaces. Nominal thickness is 19 mm (3/4 in)

Planks

The widest of these types about 75 cm to 75 mm wide. Usually combined in wood plank floors and are effective when a rustic look is preferred

Wood Strip Flooring

Most popular choice and its between 40 mm and 60 mm wide

Parquet Flooring

Small lengths of wood strips arranged to form patterns

Block Flooring

Flooring composed of square units pre-assembled at the mill in usually installed with mastic over a wood subfloor or concrete slab

Unit Block

made by joining short lengths of strip flooring edgewise

Slat Block

made by assembling narrow slats into larger units

Wood Veneer

Thin slices of wood. Usually thinner than 3mm obtained either by "peeling" the trunk of a tree by slicing large rectangular blocks of wood that typically are glued onto core panels. Best substrate (1.2-2.4 M) is plywood, particle board, MDF, marine plywood.

Bookmatching

Wherein alternating pieces of veneer are flipped over so they face each other, create a pleasing, symmetrical pattern.

Slipmatching

Veneer pieces are joined in sequence without flipping the pattern. If the grain is straight, the joints will not be obvious.

Random Match

Individual leaves are random matched for effect, done to disperse characteristics such as clusters of knots more evenly across the sheet

Diamond Match

the pattern formed is diamond shaped

Engineered Wood

A range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding together wood strands, particles, fibers or veneers with adhesives to form composite materials. Sometimes referred to as composite wood or manufactured wood products.

Plywood

Wood panel made from thin sheets of wood veneer, most widely used products. Flexible, inexpensive, workable, re-usable and can usually be locally manufactured

Particle Board

Is also called as chipboard, it is a sheet that made up with wood chips glued and pressed to form under a high pressure and temperature

Medium Density Fiberboard MDF

Panel product made from wood particles reduced to fibers in a moderate-pressure steam vessel and then combined with a resin and bonded together under heat and pressure. It is the most dimensionally stable of the mat-formed panel precuts.

Wallpaper

Intended to create an atmosphere in a room because a room has no virtue in itself. It is usually a pattern product.

Washables

Described as cheap vinyls

True Vinyls

Has a fabric substrate laminated with a solid vinyl decorative surface, considered a more breathable wallpaper

Vinyl Coated

Most common type of wallpaper, made from paper with a protective coat of vinyl. Ideal for kitchen, bathrooms or where kids or pets might brush.

Ready-pasted or pre-pasted

Design for the do-it-yourself market

Unpasted

Applied to the wall and not the paper, suitable for kitchens and bathrooms because of its steam and water resistane

Relief

Raised texture that you can feel

Ingrain Papers

Under the name Woodchip, used to hide defects, suitable for any decorating purpose and can be applied outside-in for a different effect

Anaglypta

Made from heavy white paper backed with another layer of ordinary wood pulp and embossed while damp so pronounced relief patterns remain when hung.

Lincrusta

Rigid materials made from a solid paper backing, coated with putty-like mixture of linseed oil and filler, resembling tiles and wood panelling

Embossed

Relief pattern which are often colored and gold/silver leafed

Fakes and Fantasies

Wallcoverings made from and made to look like many materials other than paper

Flock

Oldest form of wallpaper

Hessian

Clean textured, Scandinavian feeling

Linen

Look papers

Moire / Vertigo Moire

Shaded to look like watered silk or "shot" taffeta

Fake Leathers

Suedes and some very sophisticated reptile skin effects.

Foil Papers

Thin metal coating and is highly reflective, brand name "Mylar", difficult to work with because it shows imperfections

Wood Grain Ppaers

Printed to resemble a variety of wood types

Marble Papers

Handmande so that individuality of colors and minimal pattern puts them a completely different class

Grasscloth/Burlap

The most expensive and exclusive of these types, dried grass is woven together before being stuck to a paper backing. Extremely fragile and difficult to clean but easy to work with.

Machine

Cheapest types are called "pulps" because the design is printed directly onto the raw paper

Surface Printing

Accounts for the largest volume of printed papers

Rotogravure Print

Uses copper-covered steel rollers, photographically engraved to produce rotogravure patterns.

Silk-Screen Printing

Mechanized or partly by hand, meant as a substitute to the painstaking method of Block printing. Utilizes one screen for each color in the design.

Wood Block

Each motif in a repeat is imprinted by hand-pressing a separate wooden block engraved with a portion of a pattern in the proper position

Glass Reinforced Gypsum

A high-strenght, high-density gypsum, reinforced with continuous filament flass fibers or chopped glass fiber strands.

Acoustical Ceilings

Allow easy access to the variety of systems they conceal

Exposed Grid Systems

Suspend square or rectilinear frames that hold attached or loose laid panels. Channel or angle-shaped sections are attached to the wall to support perimeter panel edges.

Concealed Grid Systems

Concealed spline systems, provide the traditional look of a uniform ceiling, along with increased acoustic performance.

Raised Flooring

Also known as Access Flooring, it is an elevated flooring system comprised of panels which can be removed to give access to the area immediately beneath it.