📚 Floors

What you walk on indoors: board, tile and terrazzo traditions, and the trade that lays and restores them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject floors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The construction of buildings	Robin Barry	1958	34
	Specialist Floor Finishes	D. Cattell	1987	8
	Bridge deck behaviour	Edmund C. Hambly	1976	4
	Your floors & stairs	Better Homes and Gardens	1985	4
	Floor finishes	Penelope Whiting	1948	3
	Floor style	Yvonne Rees	1989	3
	The Flooring Book	Elizabeth Wilhide	1997	3
	Home Decorating	Mike Lawrence	1997	3
	Flooring Basics	Rick Peters	2000	3
	Floors and floorings	D. M. J. Davidson	1939	2
	The forces applied to the floor by the foot in walking	Building Research Station.	1961	2
	Floors and flooring	Jane Lott	1985	2
	Country house floors, 1660-1850	Christopher Gilbert	1987	2
	Floors, walls & ceilings	Graham Blackburn	1989	2
	Floors, walls and stairs. --	Fine Homebuilding	1990	2
	Design and construction of concrete floors	G. Garber	1991	2
	Floors & tiles	Holloway, David	1993	2
	Radiant Floor Heating	R. Dodge Woodson	1999	2
	Laminate Floors 1 2 3	Home Depot	1999	2
	Historic Floors (Conservation & Museology)	JANE FAWCETT	2001	2
	Ortho's all about floors and flooring	Miller, Martin	2002	2
	Flooring	Elizabeth Wilhide	2005	2
	Design ideas for flooring	Joe Provey	2005	2
	Dream floors	Kathleen Stoehr	2005	2
	Flooring	Fine Homebuilding	2005	2
	Duas palavras sobre pavimentos	Francisco Liberato Telles de Castro da Silva	1896	1
	Berechnungstafeln für rechtwinklige Fahrbahnplatten von Strassenbrücken	Hubert Rüsch	1965	1
	Clean floors	United States. Extension Service	1966	1
	Do-it-yourself	Bill Tanler	1982	1
	Flooring (Do It Yourself)	Sunset Books	1982	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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