Talk:Floor

message: Article for Flooring merged: See old talk-page here  
Article For Floor covering merged: (No talk page) Dmcq (talk) 18:42, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should information in Wikipedia be stolen from Brittanica? Oven Fresh 16:19, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Brittanica

message: I removed this bit and I'll explain why.
: Floors in buildings are often renamed or renumbered depending on the superstitions of the local population. In much of the European world, for example, the number 13 is considered unlucky (triskaidekaphobia), so the floor is renumbered to 12A or 12B, or even directly to 14.
: In Chinese culture, 4 is considered unlucky, so 4 would be renamed 3A or 3B, and further up the building, the floors would be numbered 12, 13, 13A, 15. Interestingly, this results in two floors numbered 13, whereas Europeans would prefer none!
Well what gets me wondering about this is that I am European, have been for nearly fifty years, and I know of no buildings missing a thirteenth floor, in fact I find the idea rather suspect, given European phlegmatism.
And also (wincing a little) because I heard the same story.  And when I heard it, it was about American buildings missing a floor 13...
<shrug>
 :)
--Tony Sidaway|Talk 01:59, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can vouch that many US highrise hotels, appartment buildings, etc, go directly from floor 12 to floor 14. -- Infrogmation 07:15, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Superstition

message: Acoustic concrete is designed for sound damping. It is mixed with an air entraining agent, which results in a significantly lighter concrete that still possesses excellent acoustic damping properties. LorenzoB 00:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are welcome to add material on this to the article. Please make sure it is referenced, such as with a link to a webpage, or if not available online, with references to books or similar. Cheers. MadMaxDog 10:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues 

message: For the Floor enthusiasts, how about a secion on floor cleaning? Federico Grigio, alias Nahraana (talk) 13:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me, I think it could make a good article on its own with just a reference from Floor. Go for it, I can see there's all sorts of stuff like stripping the surface and putting on a new protective layer, getting the right traction, what leaving a wood floor wet can do, what the various types of brushes do and those opening V sweepers with replaceable covers, the history of it. Well there's a fair amount. Floor enthusiast, hmmm, I think perhaps I'll just join Bert's rubber band and paper clip enthusiasts society instead. Do you know your rubber band collection lasts better if you keep it in the fridge? ;-) Dmcq (talk) 08:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm no expert on it but it is a very important aspect of floors, so I'll put in a short introductory section into this article saying what the purpose of floor cleaning is and see if it can't reference a couple of non-commercial sites about it. Dmcq (talk) 18:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Still rather a stub but I really feel floor cleaning should be separated out so it can be referenced from cleaning- so I'll go ahead and split it out. I can't see anyone having much objection as no-one else has written anything in that section. Dmcq (talk) 18:36, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Floor cleaning 

message: I've had a look at splitting up Floor as suggested in the previous Talk section, and a split I see as reasonable is:
*Flooring for the floor covering - there were three areas dealing with this before which were consolidated but I think it can all be split out again
*Building utilities for all the stuff like wiring and plumbing. This is mainly common to what is above the ceiling or behind the walls.
*Subfloor - there is lot more to this like for instance cantilevered floors used in modern skyscrapers. This could refer back to floor for other special constructions like floating floors.
*Cleaning is already separate and both Floor and the Flooring articles can have a short paragraph pointing to it.
I'm not sure what to do with the issues section. It could just be removed and any useful bits distributed but the concept is orthogonal to the other sections. Dmcq (talk) 17:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Building services engineering seems appropriate for the utilities. It is rather an undeveloped article mainly a list of services, which is probably what it should mainly be but it  rather like the way the public utilities dig up the road one after the other without ever talking to one another. Dmcq (talk) 07:58, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Lots of names, see baseboard. Dmcq (talk) 00:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Please keep to the subject of the section header. There is another section below where you can badmouth people. Dmcq (talk) 16:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Splitting up Floor

message: :I agree that this section as it has been added should not remain. The types of flooring are mostly listed under "Resilient flooring", and the details should go in the individual articles. If there's enough of a "sustainable flooring" movement out there, then it should have its own article talking about the history.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks SarekOfVulcan, that split looks good. I guess I should have thought of going ahead and doing it myself but I just have this educational hangup about preferring if WDIAROM had been able to do it. Dmcq (talk) 00:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comment: Sustainable flooring 

message: If no one objects I'm going to split up the Floor article again to move the Floor covering section to the 'Flooring' article. Flooring currently redirects to Floor. Floor covering will also be redirected to Flooring rather than Floor. Flooring would be the main article simply on the basis that Floor covering is two words rather than one, I've no better basis for distinguishing between them.
The sections on Floor features and floor cleaning would also be moved to Flooring, cut down versions of Floor covering, features and cleaning sections would be kept in the floor article. I think the sections to be split out are fairly self contained and hopefully this will leave space for a more structural oriented article in Floor.
Many links to floor should be disambiguated to somewhere else and this adds another place - flooring. Hopefully it should make the remainder more manageable. There's not many places where they actually mean an actual floor or subfloor rather than flooring or a storey or something else. Dmcq (talk) 13:40, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds great, Dmcq. Thanks for your work on this page. tedder (talk) 18:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting up floor (again) 

message: The article was renames as Floor (surface) and is thankfully being moved back again. Could I ask if anyone else has a desire to rename it that they discuss it first. The (surface) was a particularly bad choice as Flooring is surfacing for a floor and there's other surfaces in maths just like there is a floor in maths. Dmcq (talk) 13:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article 

message: Apart from a floor functioning as a sort of platform for people to live and work on, I suppose floors (and ceilings) must sometimes have the structural function of adding rigidity to a building. In this structural sense I daresay it doesn't matter whether the structure is called a floor or a ceiling, and may often be both. Do engineers, architects, builders etc. have any general term for a floor/ceiling with this specific function?Campolongo (talk) 07:41, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: They don't in general have such a function. However the beams under a floor do that sort of thing as well as holding up the floors and ceilings. Dmcq (talk) 10:36, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question: structural function 

message: Article fails to consider exterior floors which are not in a room or vehicle, such as a floor that passes through a wall or opening to the exterior floor space. 108.161.123.51 (talk) 03:17, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exterior Floors 

message: mentioning that floors are for dancing in the first sentence (first clause, even) could come across as being a little Kevin Bacon-esque.
maybe this should be moved to a link to Dance floor, the disambiguation page in the See also section near the bottom of the page?
Longpinkytoes (talk) 12:07, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite right. I removed it. It's the sort of silliness that sometimes gets stuck into articles. Dmcq (talk) 18:52, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

text: The special structures section includes sprung floor which is used by dancers and athletes. Dmcq (talk) 18:55, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  dance floor