19/30381649 DC

This standard 19/30381649 DC BS ISO 18167. Textile floor coverings. Installation practices. General is classified in these ICS categories:

• 97.150 Non-textile floor coverings

This document sets out the requirements for installing textile floor coverings (carpets). It gives details of the work necessary in preparing subfloor surfaces together with the procedures that are to be adopted where textile floor coverings are laid over various types of subfloors and underlays and where subfloor heating units are installed.

The objective of this document is to provide the contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, and purchasers of textile floor coverings and others, for example, technical educators, with procedures to enable the provision of correctly installed textile floor coverings.