Mud Floor - Earthen flooring commonly also knows as Adobe flooring is made of dirt, raw earth along with other unworked ground materials. Brick flooring is a type of flooring where the floor is topped with bricks. Tile floor is the floor which is topped with tiles.

Materials almost always classified as floor covering include carpet, area rugs, and resilient flooring such as linoleum or vinyl flooring. Materials commonly called flooring include wood flooring, laminated wood, ceramic tile, stone, terrazzo, and various seamless chemical floor coatings.

In almost every instance there is the floor covering, the underlayment, the subfloor, and the floor joists. This is what makes up your floors, and gives them structural integrity to keep you and yours on solid ground.

Subfloor. The subfloor is the layer of a floor that provides structural support for the finished flooring material. It is typically made of plywood or oriented strand board (OSB), and is attached to the joists with nails or screws.