A stone cladded system for walls, including metal battens mounted in arrays of vertically extending, laterally spaced battens on a supporting wall structure of a building. Stonelike cladding members extruded or molded from cementious material are mounted on the battens and provide an exterior wall surface for a building. The battens provide upwardly facing, hook-shaped support projections which extend into downwardly open grooves in the cladding members to support the cladding members on the battens. Bendable locking tabs are provided on the battens which are bent out over the upper edges of the associated cladding members to lock the cladding members in position in engagement with the hook-shaped support projections.

A flooring assembly and fastener therefor is comprised of a plurality of elongated flooring planks, with each flooring plank having on opposing ends a tongue-containing first longitudinal edge and a groove-containing second longitudinal edge. The flooring planks are arranged on a plurality of a supporting members, so that the tongue-containing end of a first flooring plank will engage the groove-containing end of a second flooring plank. The assembled flooring planks are securely held in place by a clip unit which is comprised of a base, at least one fastening means, a leg portion extending vertically from said base and a free, distal end portion sized to be positioned between the lower face of the tongue end of a first flooring plank and the upper face of the grooved end of a second flooring plank.

A wall facing system including elongate wall facing tiles (15) of stone material and mounting bars (11) adapted to be secured in a vertical position on a building wall to support the tiles (15) with the tiles positioned one above the other and having their longitudinal dimension horizontal, and with vertically adjacent tiles adjacent and, optionally, overlapping one another. Each facing tile (15) has on its front side a rebate (15A), which extends along the upper edge of the tile, and a front plate, which extends from the rebate down to the lower edge of the tile. Moreover, each facing tile (15) has on its rear side a downwardly projecting support rib (15E), which extends in parallel with the upper and lower edges of the tile. Each mounting bar (11) has at least one flange (12) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the mounting bar and is provided with a plurality of support hooks (13) evenly spaced-apart in the longitudinal direction of the mounting bar and adapted to engage the support ribs (15E) of the tiles (15) from below to support the tiles. The lower edge of the support rib (15E) is spaced from the upper edge of the tile (15) by a distance which is not more than about 0.4, and preferably not more than about 0.3 times the total height of the tile, and each support hook (13) has a front edge defined by the front edge (12A) of the flange (12) and serving as a lateral support for a tile (15) supported by it, the length of the front edge of the support hook being at least half the distance separating corresponding points on adjacent support hooks.

Random-shaped tiles are joined in an arbitrary array onto a front plane of a metal plate having holes, the metal plate being fixed to a backing plate. The random-shaped tiles are supported by supporting pieces of attaching pieces attached to the metal plate. The weight of the random-shaped tiles is received at the lower edge portion thereof by the supporting pieces, and the movement thereof in the direction of peeling away (forwards) is restricted at the upper edge portion of the random-shaped tiles by the supporting pieces. The random-shaped tiles can be joined to the metal plate having holes in a free array, and work can proceed speedily without any sagging during the joining work. Following joining, the random-shaped tiles are shielded from a good deal of vibrations and movement applied to the building frame, while being held in a secure joining state to the metal plate having holes.

A resilient flooring system arranged over a base floor which includes a layer of resilient pads supporting sub-floor panels in a generally side-by-side manner. Slots, in the form of an inverted L, are formed between opposed ends of the sub-floor panels and resilient pads. A limit bar, in the shape of a "Z" is arranged in the slots with its upper horizontal flanges extending in the upper horizontal leg of the slot and in engagement with a portion of one end of the sub-floor panels. Flooring boards are arranged over the slots and are secured with the sub-floor panels. Resilient strips are arranged in the slots over the lower horizontal leg of the limit bars. The resilient strips apply constant pressure to the under surface of the flooring boards in the area of the slots.