Floor coverings are used to provide comfort, warmth, noise reduction and finished appearance to floors. There are two main types - hard and soft coverings. Hard coverings include materials like vinyl, asphalt and wood tiles which are durable but noisy. Soft coverings include carpets and rugs which add texture, warmth and resilience while reducing noise. Selection depends on factors like durability, cost, appearance and intended use.

1. Floor Covering
Dr. Deepa Swamy
Associate Professor
Govt Arts Girls College, Kota

2. Floor Covering
• The floor covering are used on the base floor.
• Floor covering makes the room comfortable and gives a finished appearance.
• It adds visual and actual warmth to the floor
• It helps in reduction foot fatigue
• It can be used to divide space, suggest traffic pattern.
• Floor covering reduce the amount of noise produce while walking on it.

3. Selection of Floor Covering
• Durability
• Economy of Upkeep
• Resilience
• Warmth
• Light Reflection
• Sound Abs oration
• Appearance
• Beauty and character of room
• Use
• Individuality
• cost

4. Types of Floor Covering
Hard Covering Soft Covering

5. Hard Covering
• Asphalt Tiles
• Cork Tiles
• Vinyl tile
• Linoleum
• Rubber Tile
• Wood

6. Asphalt Tiles
• These tiles are made from natural asphalt ,asbestos or mineral fibers and pigments.
• Available in wide range of hues.
• Available in plain or marbleized pattern.
• Easy to care ,mop, or wax them.

7. Vinyl tile
• They are Manufactured from PVC or other synthetic resins.
• It is Used on staircases and pathways Linoleum
• It is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil, pine rosin, ground cork dust, and
mineral fillers such as calcium carbonate.
• The finest linoleum floors, extremely durable. And were printed with thinner layers which were more
prone to wear and tear.

9. Rubber Tiles
• They are made up of 25% of rubber and 75% of mineral and cotton fibres
• Rubber floors are nonporous, waterproof surfaces.
• They are used in areas like bars and bathrooms
• • They are noise free .
• Limited in color.
• Directly laid on concrete base.
• They are attractive floor but twice as expensive

11. Cork Tiles
• Cork tile are made from cork shaving and granules compressed and baked to liquefy natural resins.
• These are dark brown in color.
• Maintenance of these tiles are not very easy as dirt and dust absorb inside the pores present in it.

12. Linoleum
• It is a floor covering made from materials such as solidified linseed oil, pine rosin, ground cork dust, and mineral fillers
such as calcium carbonate.
• The finest linoleum floors, extremely durable.
• They were printed with thinner layers which were more prone to wear and tear.
• It is attractive ,flexible, quiet and moderate in cost.
• It require frequent waxing for durability

14. Wood Tile
• The wood generally used are oak, brich, beech, maple.
• The natural grain and color of wood provides the pattern.
• Variety can be obtained by arranging them in various pattern.
• They are hard and noisy.
• They give beauty and warmth

16. Soft Covering
Rugs Carpet

17. Soft Covering
• It adds warmth and visual softness to floor.
• It gives texture to a floor.
• Provides resilience and quietness to floor
• It also give furnished look at the room.
• It can divide the space of the room without wall.

18. Carpets
• Carpet is typically installed wall-to-wall to eliminate the maintenance of hard flooring surfaces around the
edge of a carpet.
•categorized by
• construction,
• patterns
• types of yarn used.
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19. Uses of carpet in House
• slipping
• provides an additional source of insulation
• lower noise levels;
• most resilient of all floor coverings,
• which is a major benefit to individuals who must remain on their feet for extended periods.

20. Sizes of Carpets
• Broadloom carpets – 12 feet in width, but can be ordered up to 15 feet in width.
• Carpet runners – 2 feet to 9 feet in width.
• Carpet squares or tiles – 18 square inches

21. Rugs
• , on the other hand, are often used to accentuate a tile or wood floor.
• In areas where there is heavy foot traffic, rugs can be used to equalize wear and help prevent tracking onto other
floor coverings.
• Types of Rugs • Tufted Rugs • Needle Felted Rugs • Knotted Rugs • Hooked Rugs • Flat weave Rugs •
Embroidered Rugs • Moroccan Rugs • Scandinavian Rugs • Persian Esfahan Rug

22. Rugs
• Rugs are made as a handicraft
• The hooked rug is a style in which pieces of material are drawn through a burlap backing to create a simple rug.
• Hooked Rugs Flat weave Rugs Sometimes, hobbyists make flat weave rugs out of strips of old pieces of clothing, such as
jeans.

23. Difference between Rugs and Carpet
• A “rug” is cut to standard sizes and are usually not fastened to floors where as “Carpets” come sin yard in width
s ranging from 21” to 18”.
• a “rug” is a woven fabric that is used to cover a specific area of the floor. Where as "carpet”, which is generally
but not invariably used to refer to carpeting that extend wall-to-wall, or are fixed to the floor.