Check With your Condo Association first.
Your Condominium Association would usually have a Master Insurance Policy that covers losses from common owned property, structural components and conveyances and liabilities. This would generally include Plumbing in exterior and common walls and possibly resulting water damges.
Generally a Carpenter or Inspector will inspect the damaged flooring down to the sub flooring if necessary and trace the water stains or rot back to teh source. Water damage can can be higly visible and easily traced by a Carpenter once the damage area is exposed, often even without esposing it. Water damage is one of the more common property loss exposures.
If there is no water source for the damage in the inspected unit and it tracks back through a common wall, then it's fairly easy to determine the source of water damage.
Check with your Condo Association first as they may have the coverage needed for community loss exposures.
Hard flooring, and yes, it is much more likely to transmit sound.
It depends. If you added or customized the flooring from the original floor plan than you have additions and alterations. These types of changes are covered on your Coverage A on your condo policy. If it is the original flooring than it would depend on what your condo associations master policy covers.
Unless otherwise excluded under the terms of your policy, Flooring is considered part of the home structure. Contact your Insurance Agent for further clarification.
Perimeter is used on flooring to help determine the area which will be covered. Unfortunately, perimeter does not take into consideration the obstructions inside which will not require covering.
Sometimes the manufacturuer is stamped on the bottom of the board.
In order to determine if you need more than tiles to put in laminate flooring it depends on what kind of flooring you are going to buy . There are differents options you can buy such as ones that come pre - glued or ones you have to glue yourself when installing .
Screwfix sells an assortment of flooring to include vinyl. if you look at Screwfix's home site you will see the collection they carry to help you determine the style and price range which you seek.
Home Depot carries many types of hardwood flooring. You can have them install it or attend a do-it-yourself workshop. Their website even has a tool you can use to determine which flooring will best suit your needs: http://www.homedepot.com/Flooring-Hardwood-Flooring/h_d1/N-aq8xZ5yc1v/h_d2/Navigation?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&searchNav=true
Cork is naturally shock-absorbing and also muffles sounds coming from the unit. But it is expensive and does not hold up well to very heavy items on it for long periods of time.
The firs step is to determine the insulation capability of roof. walls and flooring then compute for the capacity of the equipment
Go around to each of your neighbors, asking for old flooring. You need to get three for Saharah, but sometimes only 2 or 1 of your neighbors have old carpets. If this happens, just save the old carpets you got for next time, so that you can take your neighbors carpets and your already obtained old carpets.
That depends on the laminate flooring that is being purchased. There are many factor from sizes and numbers that would be needed to determine this, however the side of the box always specifies how many square feet there are.