Beyond the Flooring Product: How Substrate, Installation, and Testing Shape Performance

A flooring product can meet laboratory requirements and still perform differently after installation.

That is because the finished floor includes more than the surface material. Concrete moisture, floor flatness, adhesives, installation methods, environmental conditions, traffic, and maintenance can all affect performance over time.

Intertek’s white paper, Beyond the Flooring Product: How Substrate, Installation, and Testing Shape Performance, covers pre-installation testing and performance requirements, including acoustics, fire, slip resistance, and indoor environmental quality. It also looks at how field evaluation and laboratory analysis can help distinguish among product, installation, substrate, and jobsite factors when performance issues develop.

The white paper is authored by Lee Phillips, Vice President of Professional Testing Laboratory at Intertek, who has worked in flooring and textile testing since 1988 and has tested and evaluated more than 250,000 items.

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