The disclosure relates to an outdoor flooring assembly for securing flooring trays to improve stability and wind uplift resistance. The flooring trays each include a plurality of securement mechanisms coupled to a bottom surface thereto, the securement mechanisms designed to interconnect with one another to securely retain adjacent trays together and minimize the risk that any individual tray is dislodged.

Reinforced tiles, as well as systems and methods for reinforcing tiles, are provided. The reinforced tiles have enhanced durability, compressive strength, shear strength, and modulus of elasticity.

An adhesive floor/wallboard includes a floor/wallboard main body layer and a buffer layer adhered to the back surface of the floor/wallboard main body layer. The buffer layer is provided with a plurality of holes. The holes extend through the buffer layer to the main body layer. Glue is deposited in the holes. The buffer layer is adhered to the back surface of the floor/wallboard. The glue in the holes makes direct contact with the floor/wallboard main body at the holes. Due to the holes and their depth, the contact area between the glue, the buffer layer and the main body is increased. Accordingly, the adhesive floor/wallboard can be more firmly adhered to a backing surface.

An uncoupling mat includes an uncoupling layer; a layer of adhesive underlying the uncoupling layer, the adhesive layer having a subfloor-bonding surface; and an entangled filament sheet overlying the uncoupling layer, the entangled filament sheet being a resilient three-dimensional web of extruded polymer monofilaments, the polymer monofilaments being heat welded at junctions to form an open network of tangled monofilament.

A decorative wall system is provided that includes a number of panels that can be secured to an underlying wall and to one another in an overlapping configuration to provide a multi-layer, three-dimensional appearance to the wall. In one embodiment of the wall system, the system includes individual panels that include a decorative front surface and a rear surface. The rear surface includes undercuts along each side of the rear surface that can be positioned over the side edges of the front surface of an adjacent wall panel. The panels may each include an adhesive layer including compressible strings therein that assist the adhesive in holding the panel on a surface by forming a vacuum between the panel and the surface to which the panel is attached.

The present invention relates to the installation of floorcovering articles on chemically abated flooring surfaces and the composite article resulting therefrom. More specifically, the invention relates to a process for chemical removal of mastic, putty and/or paste material from a flooring surface. The process includes applying abatement chemical to the mastic material on the flooring surface to soften the mastic material and cause it to physically separate and release from the flooring surface, removal of the mastic material and abatement chemical, and the subsequent application of a barrier coating to the flooring surface. The barrier coating reduces and/or eliminates the migration of residual abatement chemicals into floorcovering articles thereinafter installed on the chemically abated flooring surface. The resulting composite article is comprised of a chemically abated flooring surface containing pores, at least one abatement chemical in said pores, a polymer-containing barrier material, and a floorcovering article.

A hard flooring plank and a wall panel plank. The hard flooring plank includes a flooring plank body. A bottom surface of the flooring plank body is bonded with a retractable bonding element. A lower surface of the retractable bonding elements is bonded with a release paper layer. The wall panel plank includes a wall panel plank body. An inner side surface of the wall panel plank is bonded with a retractable bonding element, and the other side surface of the retractable bonding element is bonded with a release paper layer. The hard flooring plank not only overcomes the disadvantage of the hard flooring plank, but also has the advantages of a resilient flooring plank, so that a new breakthrough on the structure of the flooring plank body is achieved.

In one aspect, a smart corner is provided that can be prefabricated. The smart corner comprises a rear side including a first hole, a first side including a second hole, a second side including a third hole, and a top. A wall frame is also provided. The wall frame includes a top plate, a bottom plate, studs, and four smart corners. A framing system is also provided comprising at least two wall frames. The at least two wall frames connect via the smart corners.

A glueless dustless composite flooring material system providing PVC-based flooring having waterproof layers providing different qualities of hardness, wear-resistance, sound deadening, and decorative patterns, avoiding the use of moisture-susceptible compressed cellulose-based filler, with layers fused together, avoiding the manufacturing complexity and delamination risks of using glue or adhesive, with a quickly-cured, UV-cured top coating providing long-lasting high performance and shortening and simplifying the manufacturing, which can be done in a sheet-form, essentially continuous-run manner, with an ability to quickly and simply change the optional design printing and texturing produced, and having an optional underlayment layer.

A multi-layered structure (1) for the production of a floor or wall covering. The structure comprises: a first assembly (E) successively comprising at least: a transparent wear layer (E1) made of polyvinyl chloride; a decorative layer (E2) bonded to the wear layer (E1); a backing layer (E3), bonded to the decorative layer (E2), produced from plasticized and loaded polyvinyl chloride; a foam layer (2), bonded to the backing layer (E3), imparting sound-insulating properties to the structure, and having a lower side. The first assembly (E) comprises a tensile modulus for 1% elongation greater than 5 MPa, and a flexural modulus at 3.5% between 10 MPa and 20 MPa and the foam layer (2) is a cross-linked polyolefin foam layer, having a thickness between 0.5 mm and 2 mm, and a density between 60 kg/m.sup.3 and 120 kg/m.sup.3.