Waterproof engineered floor and wall planks have a veneer layer bonded with a plastic composite core, and an underlayer, preferably an underlayer of cork.

A spotter for assembling building structures and a complimentary container. The spotter includes a web and longitudinally opposite flanges with spaced apart legs that define passthrough openings laterally aligned with each other. The web defines one or more holes for guiding a driven fastener through into a building member. The container includes a bottom member defining a primary cavity for holding accessories and a top cover member. The spotter is positionable within the container in a packed position with the web extending over the primary cavity and each flange extending downwardly on a longitudinally opposite side of the primary cavity. The top cover member lies over the spotter to close the top opening of the primary cavity.

A load distributing and absorbing system that lies below a barrier layer that is exposed to percussive and/or point-applied forces. The load distributing and absorbing system has one or more load distributing and absorbing tiles. At least some of the tiles have an underlayment infrastructure positioned below a barrier layer. The underlayment infrastructure includes one or more hat-shaped absorbing members. Each has a ceiling primarily for load distribution and a curvilinear wall primarily for load absorption extending from the ceiling. A transition feature is provided to smoothly graduate from one height and type of load distributing and absorbing tile to a load distributing and absorbing tile of another type and height. He system distributes and absorbs forces applied to the barrier layer over a broad area when applied either on a seam between adjacent tiles or within a tile.

A composite fibre cement cladding element, comprising a plurality of fibre cement component pieces is provided wherein the fibre cement component pieces are fused together to provide a single unit that gives the appearance of two or more courses of cladding elements in a series.

The invention concerns the production of draining porcelain stoneware tiles and method of production thereof. The invention concerns a tile with rectangular quadrilateral shape and edges with thickness (S), with a planar outer surface on which a series of variable geometry grooves are provided according to a drainage direction on the outer surface. The geometry of said groove can be triangular, trapezoidal or elliptical section. The vertexes of these embodiments form the bottom of said groove with height h, and said height h increases according to said drainage direction generating an inclined drainage plane of said groove. The invention also concerns a method of manufacturing a tile according to the invention; by moulding during the pressing phase of the ceramic powders with the use of punch/pad preformed with pattern according to the required geometry of the water drain grooves; by mechanical action by incision of the green pressed ceramic powder slab, dried or not, and not yet fired; or by incision of the fired tile.

Exemplary implementations of a braced flooring tray support system comprise a braced pedestal subsystem and one or more trays. The braced pedestal subsystem may include several pedestals rigidly interconnected by several brace elements. The pedestals may include position-adjustable brace interface elements having vertical fins or an annular flange projecting radially. The tray corners are supported by respective pedestals. The brace elements may have an opposing pair of pedestal interface portions which include a fin-receiving or flange-receiving slot, and a pair of pin alignment apertures intersecting the slot. Brace fasteners configured to be manually installed in and removed from the pedestal interface portions. Each brace fastener may include a pair of fastener pins configured to extend through respective pin alignment apertures and respective attachment apertures when the brace fastener is installed. The fastener pins may include a detent portion configured to releasably secure the installation without requiring any threaded engagement.

This invention relates to a deck board and more particularly, to a reduced material deck board. In accordance with this invention there is provided a deck board comprising an operatively upper board section having at least one operatively downwardly depending support leg terminating in at least one flange, an underside of the flange having a concave surface.

A tiling system for forming or covering a deck includes a plurality of lightweight tiles (formed of synthetic plastics material) and a like plurality of underlay units to be secured underneath the tiles with peripheral edges of the tiles mutually adjacent. The tiles and the underlay units are formed with respective non-adhesive connection means locating each tile on and centrally located with respect to a corresponding underlay unit. Projections extend from the edges of the underlay units to engage adjacent underlay units in use and to separate the edges of the tiles. Each tile is of lateral extent in each direction somewhat less than the lateral extent of the corresponding underlay unit, so that the tiles when connected to the underlay units have their edges mutually spaced apart with open gaps between them. The gaps between the tiles permit them to expand in hot weather without lifting or tenting.

A head for supports of raised floors includes a support body having an upper surface shaped as a cavity partially counter-shaped to receive a spherical cap; a protrusion emerging from the upper surface of the support body and having a threaded side wall; a tilting element having in its upper part a flat surface for supporting building elements and in its lower part a portion partially shaped like a spherical cap configured to be laid on the support body, the tilting element having a through hole configured to receive the protrusion; and a ring nut having an inner surface and an outer lateral surface, the inner surface being threaded to mesh with the threaded portion of the side walls of the protrusion, the outer lateral surface being shaped to abut against the inner surface of the through hole in the tilting element.

A flooring element suitable for connection to other elements in a flooring system. The flooring element comprises a body, a female connector and a retainer. The body defines a connector surface that is horizontal when in use. The female connector comprises a connector recess which is suitable for receiving a male connector and also which defines a connector opening in the connector surface. The retainer is connectable to the body such that, while it is connected to the body, the retainer is movable between and open position and a closed position. When in the closed position, the retainer is arranged to restrict movement of the male connector to guard against the male connector exiting the connector recess through the connector opening. When in the open position, the retainer does not restrict movement of the male connector thereby permitting the male connector to exit the connector recess through the connector opening.