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Linoleum is a very nice and natural flooring material, but far from
maintenance free. We used to have it on our temporary exhibition areas. Bit
does not go well with water and we had to put in an extra day/night
de-polish and polish time at every exhibit change. Now we have a plastic
flooring (PUR) that only need high-speeding once in a while.

Olle

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Olle Nordberg
Director of Exhibits and Development
Teknikens Hus
S-97187 Luleå 
Sweden
Tel +46 920 492 212
Mob +46 705 772 212
www.teknikenshus.se
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Från: Carol Garfinkel [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Skickat: den 19 februari 2004 07:49
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Ämne: Re: Gallery flooring?

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Sounds like the answer goes beyond flooring selection. But...

I hate to miss an opportunity to put in a plug for linoleum. It's made now
by a company called Forbo in the Netherlands. It's an all-natural,
solvent-free, very durable, resilient sheet product that can be laid down in
colorful patterns. I don't know which, if any, science centers have used it.
But I'd love to see it used more. The technical specs are on the website.
http://www.forbo-linoleum.nl/marmoleum/


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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: Gallery flooring?


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> Robert Fry, formerly of the Exploratorium and now of Albuquerque's new
> Explora, gives some advice about carpet, and other strategies for
> controlling ambient noise, in this area of the ASTC web site:
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> http://www.astc.org/resource/sound/fry.htm
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