LamanatorPlus provides all of the information you need to properly restore your laminate, hardwood, cork and now vinyl, concrete and tile floors too! Check our glossary of terms to learn more about flooring and floor restoration.

Adhere:  To hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping or fusing

Biodegradable:  Capable of being broken down especially into innocuous products by the action of living things

Dull:  Lacking brilliance or luster

Flooring Joints:  An area at which two ends, surfaces, or edges are attached

Laminate:  A product made by bonding together two or more layers of material

Laminate Floor:  A rigid floor covering with a surface layer consisting of one or more thin sheets of a fibrous material, impregnated with aminoplastic thermosetting resins (usually melamine).  These sheets are either pressed as such on a substrate.  This product is normally finished with a backing primarily used as a balancing material.  It’s performance values are set by the NALFA Standard.

NALFA:  North American Laminate Flooring of America.  Sets standards for the laminate manufacturers and re-sellers.

Peaking:  Areas of the laminate flooring at adjoining panel seams that have raised above the intended horizontal plane of the flooring surface.

Pre-finished Hardwood:  Hardwood floor planks that have been finished prior to installation

Residue:  Matter that remains after something has been removed

Restoration:  A bringing back to a former position or condition

Revitalize:  To give new life or vigor to

Seams:  A line of junction where floor panels are connected together

Soiled:  To make unclean

Weathered:  Altered in color, texture, composition or form by such exposure

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