Tackless Strip

Related terms

• Telegraphing

  Subfloor seams, fasteners, or debris showing through a thin resilient floor. Prevented by proper underlayment and substrate prep.

• Subfloor Squeak

  Noise from movement between subfloor, joists, or fasteners. Best corrected from below or by screwing the subfloor before new flooring goe…

• Terrazzo

  A poured or precast composite of stone/glass chips in a binder, ground and polished. Extremely durable and seamless; a premium custom floor.

• Subfloor

  The structural panel layer over the joists. Its flatness, soundness, and moisture content govern which finished floors can go down and how.

• Thinset

  The cement-based adhesive mortar that bonds tile to the substrate. Modified vs. unmodified selection depends on tile type and membrane used.

• Stair Nosing

  The shaped, often non-slip edge piece at the front of a stair tread, matched to the flooring for safety and a finished look.

• Threshold (Floor)

  The transition member at a doorway between two flooring types or rooms.

• SPC Core

  Stone-Plastic Composite — a rigid, dense LVP core that is very dent- and temperature-stable and hides minor subfloor imperfections.