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Flooring Stress Tests

Posted by I. Valdes on Friday March 25, @08:48AM
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Here is an excellent recipe for stress testing stone and possibly ceramic or other flooring before you buy a lot of it courtesy of the owner-builder discussion group. I'd buy a piece of the proposed flooring, and subject it to various tests, including:

spilling about a teaspoon of: grape & blueberry juice, red wine, warm butter, fine flour, frypan-hot cooking oil, detergent, vinegar, a few drops of liquid bleach. Leave each one overnight - 8 to 12 hours, see what they leave behind after wiping up. The above list is selected to challenge the material with a variety of common solvents and corrosives. BTW, don't let the bleach touch the other spills, and do this outdoors or in a garage, not where you'll breathe the fumes.

dropping a glass jar of (whatever you fear staining the most) from counter height. Have it in a deep cardboard box and wear eye protection and heavy clothes, sharp glass will fly.

walking on it with high-heel shoes. Again with sneakers loaded with wet sand. Twist around like we did in the 60's ;)

get a chair with metal feet, smaller the better. Lean back on the chair until the heaviest person u know has their weight on two metal feet. Twist around.

That should give u a reasonable idea what to expect by way of staining and scuffing. Perhaps also check out ceramic tiles.

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