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• n  the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
• n  building material used in laying floors
• v  surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
• v  knock down with force

• Clearing hospitals of toxin-shedding materials like mercury thermometers, particleboard and PVC flooring may lead to better patient and employee health.
• Aerocrete, a light concrete building material which rises like leavened bread, has passed the fire, load and water tests required of flooring materials in New York, it was .
• PRODUCT Portable mats and other hot uses of the tacky old flooring HOW IT STARTED The '50s-design rage spurred inventive young artists in California to kitsch up.

• floor
• shock
• ball over
• blow out of the water
• take aback
• deck
• coldcock
• dump
• knock down

News & Articles

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• CFS Flooring’s June Ad Campaign Jumps into Summer
  CFS Flooring introduces its new June ad featuring a beach goer on one of the floors from the Kensington Hand Scraped Collection. CFS offers hard surface flooring to retailers throughout North America. (PRWeb June 16, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10834915.htm
  June 16, 2013 - PRWeb
• Flooring manufacturer expanding
  HERNANDO — Officials from Shamrock Plank Flooring, a division of J.T. Shannon Lumber, one of DeSoto County's oldest industries, is expanding its presence in North Mississippi by locating manufacturing operations in the 62,900 square-foot facility formerly occupied by Stylecraft Lamps in Hernando.
  June 15, 2013 - DeSoto Times-Tribune
• Arizona Polymer Flooring Announces Daniel Owen as President, CEO
  Arizona Polymer Flooring , a manufacturer of high-performance flooring products and concrete coating systems, is pleased to announce Daniel Owen now serves as president and chief executive officer.
  June 13, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Ty Pennington in Philadelphia Inquirer
  People are definitely thinking about green and sustainable building, Pennington says, "even if they don't really understand it. Look at flooring: Bamboo is a renewable material and is green. Concrete countertops are sustainable; other countertop...
• Jim Popp in Toronto Star
  They went in for routine x-rays (Monday) and discovered something they weren't expecting to discover, but which they have to do further tests to confirm,Popp said. "I know Dr. (Vincent) Lacroix said it was flooring and shocking to him. He...