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Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:42 am
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Forgive me if I've asked this before because I have a poor memory sometimes, but I was wondering if anyone knows the name of the kind of flooring they use in big stores like Walmart etc - you know, those kinds of tiles that are perfectly flat and don't have any physical gap or visible grout. . . just 100% smoothness all the way. . . once I know the name of it I'll be one step closer to asking around to getting some installed at home 
I mean we have some linoleum in the kitchen which is pretty smooth, but not quite as good as the stuff in shops. So, yeah, anyone know what its called? Maybe someone knows someone in the flooring trade who they could ask or whatever? 
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:48 am
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| omg i LOVE that stuff....... now, i dont actually know what its called.... but that stuff = beast |
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:14 pm
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i think its linoleum? at my normal wlamart.
and my supercenter walmart is tile/carpet. |
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:19 pm
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| no i think he's talking about this really smooth kind of cement.... are you? |
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:23 pm
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| EmmaHeelz wrote: | | no i think he's talking about this really smooth kind of cement.... are you? |
the cement kind they use at BJ's and those wholesale clubs name escapes me right now and he said no gaps, and that concrete smooth stuff they use at those wholesale clubs have pretty big gaps between every other aisle (Nothing a novice heeler cant take though). So i'm thinking he means linoleum. then again i dont even know if i mean linoleum so i could be calling it the wrong thing. |
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:13 pm
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| Home Depot has this machine that sands, buffs and polishes their concrete floors. That's my favorite store to skate in. |
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:24 pm
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Tell ya what I'll have to get a pic of the kind of floor I mean. . . it actually seems to be solid tiles rather than anything that is flexible or sticks down like linoleum. Sometimes they're as small as 8 inch square and sometimes they're a few feet across - they have the look and smoothness of marble, but they must be imitation as that would be seriously expensive to do a whole shop in (*stray thought* hmm, I bet some big royal palaces of the world have some wicked genuine marble floors for heeling on )
But yeah, they seem to be tiles, but with no bevel to the edges, and they're laid absolutely perfect with NO visible grout or gap between so it's just non-stop heeling perfection from one end of the store to the other.
I also love those large smooth concrete floors which Emma mentioned, like they have in home improvement or garden centres (dunno what you call 'em in the states, we have ones that sell building materials and plants and stuff for building your house and garden) - they're fine but yeah they do have gaps once every aisle or so, unlike the stuff I'm talking about. |
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:29 pm
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| It's still linoleum, it's just smoother for more efficient cleaning/polishing. the stuff in most homes has texture for some reason. |
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Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:57 pm
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| AgeMeansNothing wrote: | | the stuff in most homes has texture for some reason. |
Old people coming out of the bathtub. |
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| EmmaHeelz wrote: | | omg i LOVE that stuff....... now, i dont actually know what its called.... but that stuff = beast |
BTW emma, I worked for a concrete company for a while and saw them lay the large smooth concrete squares you were talking about, and even I didn't know what they called that but (iirc) the process of making it perfectly smooth they called "Power floating" - sounds a bit like a Heelys trick huh? |
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Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:56 pm
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| Slicer wrote: | | AgeMeansNothing wrote: | | the stuff in most homes has texture for some reason. |
Old people coming out of the bathtub. |
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| How do we always change the topic on MEs threads? |
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Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:28 am
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| ~~>Tuna<~~ wrote: | | How do we always change the topic on MEs threads? |
LOL. It's because everyone knows I don't mind - I'm a kind, easy-going host, and all are welcome (yes indeed) at my place 
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| IVI4V3R1CK wrote: | ... or because M.E. has the most new topics in the General/Off-Topic threads right now... We would do the same to you... It just happens
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