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Name of the flooring material
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Description
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Cleanability
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Brick, slate quarry tiles
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Natural look available in different shapes.
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Durable and beauty
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No resilience
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Needs waxing good stain resistance
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Ceramic tiles
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Colorful, available in many sizes and shapes
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Beautiful and stain resistance.
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No resilience
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Clean with soap and water only
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Terrazzo
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Permanent and available in Multi colored
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Durable and hides soil/dirt.
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Limited design, permanent installation
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Cleaning is easy
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Rubber tile
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Beautiful and elegant limited colors
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Excellent, good resilience and durable. Resists stains
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Expensive, slippery when wet.
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Needs strong detergents to remove grease
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Wood
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Natural or painted
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Good resilience and durable
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Dry heat cause shrinking and dampness swelling
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Maintenance
with sweeping and moping
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Vinyl tile
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Attractive and sealed surface
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Comfortable to walk with no sound.
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Not suitable for heavy traffic
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Cleaned with damp cloth
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Vinyl asbestos tile
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Durable and colorful
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Resists alkalis, easily installed low cost.
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Maintained with , sweeping and mopping with little water
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Vinyl cushioned sheet and Vinyl sheet
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Available in wide range of colors, patterns, and treated surfaces.
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Good resilience comfortable and stain resistance
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Expensive (cushioned sheet)
Moderate price
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Easy to maintain with sweeping and mopping.
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Marble and granite
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Available in wide range of colors, patterns size and shape.
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Beautiful and gives formal effect.
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Stains easily and difficult to remove.
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Needs polishing , stains hard to remove
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