Flooring: Wood floors

During laying the parquet floor, a “cake” is being created, which at maximum saturation might look like in the following way. If you enumerate from the bottom to up, first comes the overlap, and then sealing in the form of foil or glass- hydrosol with deducing the edge of the wall. After the waterproofing is screed, cement covering should be done, then ground under the crack filler and then self-spreading crack filler. Surface sealer is applied primer for adhesive glue on the parquet, which put water-resistant plywood, fixed to the screed with screws. Then applied primer for adhesive, parquet glue, put parquet itself, plaster under the paint, lacquer, primer and final stage – the application of paint in several layers.

Parquet strips must be attached to the plywood with glue and staples or nails.

The direction of the nail should be at an angle to the ground. Sami wooden planks when laying parquet should tightly contact with each other and the floor surface to be perfectly flat and smooth.

In consideration of water is the enemy of the flooring, you must comply strictly with the moisture content. Namely, the residual moisture is already ripe and dried screed must not exceed 5%, and the humidity is very parquet wood to be in the range of 9% plus or minus 3%.

When working with glue, varnish and putty, it is worth remembering that their enemy is dust. Therefore, all tools must be equipped with dust collector.

In order parquet to serve for a long time it is important to follow the recommendations for the care of it. Namely, it is necessary to clean the vacuum cleaner and wipe with wrung wet foam. In the room, where lay a parquet floor temperature should be around 20 degrees and the humidity is 55%.