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Flooring Index

This document provides guidance on designing and installing mastic asphalt flooring. It discusses parameters for selection, grades and thicknesses of mastic asphalt, special applications, detail considerations, tolerances, site work procedures, workmanship techniques, testing, maintenance, and provides example specifications. The document is intended as a reference for properly designing and installing mastic asphalt flooring.

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Flooring Index

This document provides guidance on designing and installing mastic asphalt flooring. It discusses parameters for selection, grades and thicknesses of mastic asphalt, special applications, detail considerations, tolerances, site work procedures, workmanship techniques, testing, maintenance, and provides example specifications. The document is intended as a reference for properly designing and installing mastic asphalt flooring.

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Chittaranjan Padhy
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Index

Introduction Design of floor to be asphalted


Selection parameters

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Design of the base


General Concrete bases Screeds Timber floors Table 1 - Classification of surface regularity of direct finished base slab or screed

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Mastic asphalt flooring


General Grade I - Special hard flooring Grade II - Light duty flooring Grade III - Medium duty flooring Grade IV - Heavy duty flooring Table 2 - Grades and thicknesses of mastic asphalt for underlays and wearing surfaces Table 3 - Susceptibility of mastic asphalt floors to chemical and temperature attack Mastic asphalt flooring/waterproofing Drainage of floor areas Effects of temperature Regulating courses

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Special applications
General Chemical & acid resisting flooring Spark resistant flooring Postal sorting office flooring Plant room floors and tank room floors Oil resisting flooring Flooring for unheated buildings

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Detail considerations
Surface finish Separating membranes Preparation of sloping & vertical surfaces to provide a key Thermal and sound insulation Movement joints

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Tolerances on finished mastic asphalt flooring


General Departure from the datum Surface regularity Table 4 - Classification of surface regularity for mastic asphalt flooring Mastic asphalt underlay to other floor finishes

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Site work
Work planning Preparatory site work prior to asphalting Achieving required quality of work Documentation and preparation Receiving and checking materials

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Workmanship
Remelting Transport of molten material Setting out Placing the separating membrane Laying the mastic asphalt flooring General Horizontal work Junctions Skirtings Cove or angle fillets Achieving a sand rubbed finish Achieving a natural float finish

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Testing the surface


Slip resistance Table 5 - Slip resistance 2

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Maintenance and repair


Cleaning and polishing Repair of mastic asphalt flooring

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Typical specifications
1) Mastic asphalt flooring with skirting board 2) Mastic asphalt flooring with decorative sheet or tile finish and skirting board 3) Mastic asphalt flooring overlaid with wood block finish 4) Mastic asphalt flooring with ceramic tile finish 5) Mastic asphalt flooring and skirting to tiled shower baths or similar 6) Mastic asphalt flooring with mastic asphalt skirting 7) Mastic asphalt flooring to plant rooms and tank rooms 8) Mastic asphalt flooring to drainage channels with light duty gratings 9) Mastic asphalt to heavy duty drainage channels

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