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  2. Tactile paving - Wikipedia

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    Tactile paving (also called tenji blocks, truncated domes, detectable warnings, tactile tiles, tactile ground surface indicators, tactile walking surface indicators, or detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground surface indicators found at roadsides (such as at curb cuts ), by and on stairs, and on railway station platforms, to ...

  3. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of trades in construction . Boilermaker, works in nuclear, oil and gas industry, shipyards, refineries, and chemical plants, on boilers, pressure vessels, and similar equipment. Carpenter, a craftsperson who performs carpentry, building mainly with wood. [ 1] Among carpentry's subsidiary trades are those of cabinet maker ...

  4. Flooring - Wikipedia

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    Flooring. Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.

  5. Laminate flooring - Wikipedia

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    Laminate flooring (also called floating wood tile in the United States) is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process. Laminate flooring simulates wood (or sometimes stone) with a photographic appliqué layer under a clear protective layer. The inner core layer is usually composed of melamine resin and ...

  6. ‘Something was terribly wrong’: North Carolina homeowners ...

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    “And that did work. And I think that raised some flags at the bank.” The very next day, framers showed up at her lot and installed the floor system and partially framed two garage walls.

  7. 5 home modifications for older adults looking to age in place

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    Remove carpets or other uneven surfaces. Uneven surfaces—such as rugs, transition strips, ripples in old carpets, and other flooring damage—can constitute significant tripping hazards.

  8. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    Penrose tiling. A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is aperiodic if it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches. However, despite their lack of translational symmetry, Penrose tilings may have both ...

  9. Coupon collector's problem - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, the coupon collector's problem refers to mathematical analysis of "collect all coupons and win" contests. It asks the following question: if each box of a given product (e.g., breakfast cereals) contains a coupon, and there are n different types of coupons, what is the probability that more than t boxes need to be bought ...