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heckmondwike fb has added the Momentum carpet to its ‘Creative Flooring’ range. The product has a striking random cross design and is offered in a range of 12 colourways, from the lighter shades of Granite to the vibrant Amazonite. It is available in both broadloom carpet and carpet tile.

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Remmers 6mm Floormix screed was the perfect solution to Lafarge cement laboratories search for a tough, durable and cost effective flooring. The coloured aggregate and epoxy resin floor was installed throughout the laboratories in Derbyshire. Remmers Floors say the Floormix screed was developed to give a hard wearing, slip-resistant, durable and easily cleaned water-proof finish. In the past, the company said, previous industrial and vinyl sheet flooring laid in changing rooms and washing areas were being destroyed within six months.

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Resedev's high performance screed flooring system have been installed at the Chassis Systems site in Telford. Resdev said the installation provides 'a robust and attractive solution capable of withstanding hostile conditions in production and industrial wash areas." The area is used for the manufacture of the T5 Chassis for Land Rover. The project was completed within a two week window.

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F.Ball and Co was able to complete installation of floorcovering in a hospital x-ray department in near record time of just half a day. The installation at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley was carried out by Base Flooring Solutions using F.Ball and Co's Stopgap 100 ultra rapid-drying floor smoothing underlayment. Base Flooring said it chose both the Stopgap 300 heavy-duty underlayment and the Stopgap 100 Rapid to ensure speed of working. Base Flooring's John Gavin said: "The fact that the contract was finished on time is largely due to the use of F.Ball's quick drying screeds." The products are now being specified in the Hospital Departments specifications that it sends out.

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CEMEX has supplied its ReadyFloor Beam and Block flooring system for the refurbishment of an old Welsh theatre. The Arad Goch Theatre Company needed a new premises. So when an adjacent building became available, a project to develop a contemporary theatre began. ReadyFloor pre-stressed concrete beams were used during the project.

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The opening of the newly refurbished Southampton City Cruise Terminal included the installation of more than 4000m² of carpets and contract vinyl materials from Tremco Illbruck. The high moisture readings in the existing sub-floor areas were dealt with by Tremco Illbruck's Treadfast One Coat Universal damp-proof membrane.

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A flooring installation service from Medway-based Total Floor Systems is the latest addition to the support package offered by the company to the nationwide iLevel service partner network and its housebuilder customers. As the performance, reliability and maintenance-free reputation of engineered wood flooring systems has grown across all housebuilding sectors, demand has increased to outsource the installation process, further streamlining build time on site. Typically, a housebuilder could use Weather Dek2 or Dek Shield protected floor panels from Puhoswood combined with iLevel Trus Joist Tls. Trust Floor Systems says it can deliver the complete support package to the iLevel service partners and its housebuilder customers.

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Tarkett has developed a new wood effect sheen vinyl flooring called Contract Supreme Wood. The new product is aimed at meeting the need for versatile and attractive solutions in heavy commercial areas such as retail, education and health care. It is also available in extra wide widths of 4m making it ideal for large areas.

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Gerflor has revitilised its Tarasafe safety floorcovering range with the introduction of a new range of colours and themes. The extended palette of colours ensures Tarasafe's position in a marketplace where demand for HSE-compliant safety floorcoverings is growing steadily. Tarasafe creates the permanent slip-resistant finish by incorporating hard-wearing carborundum particles into the wearlayer. New colours are available in four colour collections: Urban, Spicy, Fresh and Natural.

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One of London's most revered luxury department stores, Daks on Old Bond Street, has undergone a redesign. The new-look store has been divided into areas for separate collections and the store boasts handcrafted panels of English Oak and suede lining. Flooring contractors, Hull Flooring, teamed up with Ardex UK, manufacturer of high performance flooring systems, to install 300m² of new floor coverings throughout the ground and first floor sales areas, and back of house locations. Ardex's Arditex NA, a low odour latex smoothing compound, was used to prepare the subfloors prior to installation of final floor coverings. Developed as a self-smoothing, protein free latex levelling compound, Arditex NA is ideal for use on virtually all substrates.

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