1.   Other areas are highly insulated, too, including the studded basement walls, and rigid insulation under the concrete basement slab.

2.   Q. A rug installer said he would glue down indoor-outdoor carpet on a concrete basement floor, covering the entire surface as a vapor barrier.

3.   Q. I just built a house, and plan to put a carpet on the concrete basement floor.

4.   Q. My boiler leaked rusty water on the concrete basement floor.

5.   Q. My concrete basement floor is beginning to scale, with good-sized chunks coming off it.

6.   Q. The vinyl tiles on my concrete basement floor are intact and in good shape, but the tiles on the steps are breaking up.

7.   Q. I would like to stain my concrete basement floor, but now I understand the standard concrete stain is not available anymore.

8.   Q. A tack strip holding wall-to-wall carpeting left many holes in my concrete basement floor.

9.   The body count is not confined to the suffering homeless, flung down a funnel of progressive degradation into the concrete basement of their deepest fears.

10.   The concrete basement was reserved for pets and their owners.