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Check Slab for Moisture Before Installing the Flooring
Would you rather pay $2,500 to pre-test your building's concrete slab for moisture, or spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace the flooring when it starts blistering and peeling away?
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Preventing Flooring Failure Through Testing
The surest way to solve flooring failure is to prevent the problem from occurring in the first place. With billions of dollars lost every year to concrete-slab moisture-related floor-covering failures, an ounce of prevention can spell the difference between profit and loss....
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Addressing Moisture Related Problems
Moisture related failures of resilient floor coverings installed over concrete have focused unfairly over the years on the premise that the product itself is at fault or the flooring contractor...
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A Guide to Flooring Moisture Problems
This document was prepared as a survey on what most flooring manufacturers, organizations, and experts say about the problem of flooring failures caused by high concrete moisture vapor emission.
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Prevention of Failures of Floor Coverings over
Concrete Slabs on the Ground
The frequency and magnitude of floor covering failures has today reached unprecedented levels.
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How to Test for Moisture and Reduce Job Failures
I have seen every side of a moisture problem. These include the legal side -- no one wins...
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