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Richard,

One good turn deserves another!

You got good advice about attending to maintenance cost and using the sound
absorbing properties of carpet.  Here are some further comments:

Museum visits are very tiring, especially to the legs, and changes to floor
surface seem to ameliorate this to a surprising degree.  I would aim for a
variety of surfaces - carpet, rubber, ceramic tile, wood etc.

Ref. maintenance cost:  don't  forget cleaning cost.  E.g.: mastic tiles
wear very well, but getting ugly rubber scuffs off them is quite difficult.


Regards,  Peter Anderson

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