Purpose of flooring is to get an brilliant difficult, diploma and brilliant ground for living. The floors right away resting on the ground are referred to as ground floors even as the floors of each storey are referred to as pinnacle floors. 
Ground Floor 
Apart from giving correct finished ground, the ones floors want to have correct damp resistance. The ground ground is rammed well and a layer of purple earth or sand is positioned this is compacted. A layer of broken bricks, stones etc. is provided as a notable deal as one hundred and fifty mm under floor quit diploma and rammed. While ramming the ground is stored moist to get correct compaction. Then 1 : 4 : 8 concrete of a hundred to one hundred and fifty mm thickness is provided as base direction. Over this bed floor quit is laid. 
The forms of flooring used are: 
1. Mud and moorum 
2. Brick 
3. Flag stone 
4. Cement concrete 
5. Terrazo 
6. Mosaic 
7. Marble 
8. Tiles 
9. Timber 
10. Rubber 
11.P.V.C 
1. Mud and Moorum Flooring: 

These floorings are executed in low rate housing, particularly in villages. Over the difficult layer of earth filling dirt or moorum layer is provided. The floor desires a thin wash of cow dung at least as brief as a weak. 
2. Brick Flooring:

 This is also a cheap floor construction. It is generally executed in godowns and factories. Bricks are laid flat or on edges. Bricks of correct notable want for use for the construction. Brick layer is provided on sand bed or on lean concrete (1 : 8 : 16) bed. In every times joints are rendered flush and finished with cement mortar. 
Flag Stone Flooring: Laminated sand stones or slates of 20 mm to 40 mm thick withinside the form of slabs of 3 hundred mm × 3 hundred mm or 450 mm × 450 mm or withinside the form of rectangles of duration 450 mm × 600 mm are used as floor finishes. The stone slabs are laid on 20 to 20-5 mm thick mortar spread over concrete bed. The joints are to be finished with rich mortar. 
4. Cement Concrete Floors: 

It is modestly cheap and strong floor and subsequently generally executed in residential, business corporation and commercial enterprise employer buildings. It consists of 
courses-base direction and sporting coat. Base direction is laid over well compacted soil. Its thickness is generally 75 mm to a hundred mm. It consists of lean cement concrete mix (1 : 4 : 8) or lime concrete containing40% of 1 : 2 lime mortar and 60% of coarse mixture of 40 mm duration. After base coarse ishardened sporting coat of 40 mm is laid. It consists of panels of 1 m × 1 m, 2 m × 2 m or 1 m× 2 m. Alternate panels are laid with 1 : 2 : 4 concrete using wood, glass or asbestos strip separators of 1.5 mm to 2.0 mm thickness. 
To get correct bond amongst base coarse and sporting coat cement slurry wash is given in advance than laying sporting coat panels. After 3–4 days of laying of one set of panel, each special change panels are laid. Top of these panels are finished thru tamping the ground with wood floats and tapping with trowels, till cement slurry appears on top. It desires curing for 7 to 14 days. To get correct appearance frequently purple-oxide finishing coat is provided. 
5. Terrazo Flooring: 

Terrazo finishing coat is carried out over concrete flooring to get attractive appearance. Terrazo quit consists of 75 to 80% of ground marble chips embedded in cement mortar. 
Marble chips are jumbled collectively cement in the percentage 1 : 1.25 to 1 : 2 and about 6 mm terrazo topping is laid. The top is tamped and rolled. Additional marble chips are spread throughout tamping to get proper distribution of marble chips on the ground. After drying it for 12 to 20 hours, it`s an prolonged way cured for 2–3 days. 
Then grinding is made withinside the subsequent three steps: 
Ist grinding—Using coarse grade (No. 60) carborundum stones. 
IInd grinding—Using medium grade (No. 120) carborundum stones. 
IIIrd grinding—Using first rate grade (No. 320) carborundum stones.