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  2. Tactile paving - Wikipedia

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    A set of yellow truncated domes on the down-ramp in a parking lot. Tactile paving (also called tenji blocks, truncated domes, detectable warnings, tactile tiles, tactile ground surface indicators, tactile walking surface indicators, or detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground surface indicators found at roadsides (such as at curb cuts), by and on stairs, and on railway ...

  3. Popcorn ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Popcorn ceiling texture. A popcorn ceiling, also known as a stipple ceiling or acoustic ceiling, is a ceiling with one of a variety of spray-on or paint-on treatments. [1] The bumpy surface is created by tiny particles of vermiculite or polystyrene, which gives the ceiling sound-deadening properties.

  4. Texas Homecare - Wikipedia

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    At the time of the purchase, Texas had more than 11,600 staff, while Homebase had c. 4,500. As part of the acquisition, 26 Texas stores closed and Sainsbury's converted the remaining stores to the Homebase brand. [4] The conversion to Homebase was completed in 1999, when the Texas Homecare brand was discontinued. [5]

  5. Glaze defects - Wikipedia

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    Crazing is a spider web pattern of cracks penetrating the glaze. It is caused by tensile stresses greater than the glaze is able to withstand. [1] [2] Common reasons for such stresses are: a mismatch between the thermal expansions of glaze and body; from moisture expansion of the body; and in the case of glazed tiles fixed to a wall, movement of the wall or of the bonding material used to fix ...

  6. HomeBase - Wikipedia

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    HomeBase was a home improvement warehouse chain in the Western United States based in Irvine, California. History. Robert J. McNulty and George Handgis founded the ...

  7. Rumble strip - Wikipedia

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    The North Luzon Expressway's raised plastic transverse rumble strips approaching Balintawak Toll Barrier, Philippines. Rumble strips (also known as sleeper lines or alert strips) are a traffic calming feature to alert inattentive drivers of potential danger, by causing a tactile fuzzy vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the vehicle interior.

  8. Cement tile - Wikipedia

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    Tiles with a thicker color layer – at least 2.5–3 mm (0.098–0.118 in) – suffer less from this effect. The surface hardness of the color layer: depends on the quality of the white cement, on water absorption and on the strength of the tile surface. If the tile has a harder surface, it will become shinier with time.

  9. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    The tiles in the square tiling have only one shape, and it is common for other tilings to have only a finite number of shapes. These shapes are called prototiles, and a set of prototiles is said to admit a tiling or tile the plane if there is a tiling of the plane using only these shapes.