Vitaly Lviv Without fitting any floor, even laid the most expensive flooring will look lonely and messy. In addition, the "accessories" for flooring are not only aesthetic but also a direct functional purpose. Because wood swells from moisture and from extreme dryness of the room, by contrast, shrinking. In short, parquet "plays" in size, so it is placed freely and widely ": laying the flooring, the good wizard always leave a gap at the junction of the floor and walls (as well as columns, sills, pipes, central heating, etc.). So hardware is just intended to cover data gaps. First, keep such "production costs" without the covering is not aesthetically pleasing, and, secondly, they may soon become a place where you store small items, from buttons to jewelry. What is fitting for flooring? Basically it's plinth, ring and nut. Plinth - a strap that closes the gap between wall and floor. The main plinth in - properly select it. If, say, a flat ceiling height of 3.2 m, the height of the plinth should be not less than 5 cm Otherwise, he "lost" in space, and nobody paid any attention to him. Everything in nature there are three types of moldings: solid wood, veneered and columns. Plinths can choose from an array of parquet, both in the form of wood and color. Want - choose the plinth in the tone of the parquet floor want the opposite - to play on the contrast. All depends on the interior of the apartment and taste of its owner. In skirting the array, however, there is one drawback: a damp room, they can lose their perfect shape and bend. Prices on a plinth of natural wood are different, they depend primarily on wood quality and processing. Of course, the more expensive imported plinth similar home, although Russian on quality not inferior to foreign analogues. Price overseas baseboards - from $ 4 to $ 16, domestic - not more than $ 5.8 per meter. Veneered plinth is much cheaper than "massive", but look almost as well. Their foundation is made of inexpensive wood - spruce or pine, and on top of special equipment glued veneer - thin slice of some valuable species. Veneered skirting produces German firm KGM. They will cost two to three times cheaper than imported from the plinth of the array. For example, a meter of skirting board with veneer mahogany asked $ 3,5. Range of veneer plinth is extremely diverse. Believe me, any wood floor, even the most unusual and exotic, we can choose an appropriate plinth. In our market sold more plinths, columns, produced by German company Wagner. By the way, they are much more expensive than even the most exquisite moldings from an array: one meter "columns" plinth height of 6 cm will cost $ 55. But the pay is for that: in comparison with those skirting the usual lines - just a banal strip. It is clear that the line skirting around the column does not depend upon, and in Wagner's baseboards so deftly clipped the fiber that they bend as stolovskie aluminum fork. Mounting plinth is carried out after completion of laying the flooring. Replace the baseboard at any time without replacing the existing flooring. Depending on the type of flooring and the overall style decision premises choosing material manufacturing moldings. But still the main materials of manufacturing moldings is foamed PVC. It is used to frame laminate, linoleum and carpet flooring. Most plastic skirting the shape and size resemble the wooden baseboards. The back side, they are equipped with mounting channels and niche for the wire. Plastic moldings for carpet and household linoleum often have a groove on the front side, where the inserted tape carpet or linoleum, cut off from the main roll, resulting in texture and color is achieved by the unity of the baseboard and floor coverings. There are also plastic moldings, trims, they are just glued to the wall with duct tape, which is equipped with a rear side of the plinth. To demarcate the laminate and linoleum floors, can also be used as a final finishing of walls lined with the decorative panels on MDF. Merits of different materials: plastic plinth: high moisture resistance, making the plinth is not subject to corrosion and rotting, while changes in temperature and humidity in the room retains its shape and size, which allows their use in damp rooms, skirting boards from the array: environmental friendliness, High strength and durability; MDF plinths: low price, resistance to moisture penetration and the emergence of resistant contaminants, UV, does not attract dust and are hygienic. Disadvantages of different materials: plastic plinth: the lack of strength and durability; plinth made of wood: the high price makes rational use of this plinth only in conjunction with parquet, skirting MDF: lack of resistance to surface damage. Plastic baseboard is installed covertly, using the mounting channels that ran from the back side. The wall to which it is attached, must necessarily be smooth. Wooden baseboards (drills and massive) are most likely just stick to the smooth, clean and dry wall. Baseboards MDF mounted on a flat wall with brackets in the form of hooks, which are tightly put on the plinth. End sections of skirting-sealable plastic caps, and corner joints "corners." Thanks to this anchorage, with subsequent repair baseboards can be removed, and then put into place. Mounting boxes represent channels for the construction of various types of wires and cables. Their use is rational in that case, if the house is necessary to lay a large number of wires for different purposes and different sections (electrical, telephone, television, computer). Mounting boxes made of PVC and aluminum, characterized by a large number of sizes and sections, which allows you to route cables for different purposes and sections in separate channels, thereby increasing the safety of electrical wiring. The form is also different boxes. They can be rectangular and corner mounting in the corners of walls, ceiling or under the wall cabinets. Plastic skirting - irreplaceable finishing detail, their advantages over wooden skirting obvious. They do not need additional treatment (sanding, painting), they are absolutely smooth surface that does not require special care, are resistant to household chemicals for a long time are very aesthetic. Plastic skirting can be easily installed. Typically, the wall is attached an invisible part of the design - or carrying strap, or special fastening elements - the clip. Then inserted into the upper decorative piece in the groove hidden fastener. Thus, the outer surface of the plinth remains completely smooth, unspoiled caps screws or nails. This skirting can be used more than once, its surface will always be good as new. Skirting SL-48 is made of hard foamed PVC. Due to foaming baseboard is lightweight, and a special chemical composition makes it resistant to UV, moisture, oils and solvents. At low temperatures (below -5 ° C) becomes brittle, so use it for internal finishing and repair work. Skirting can be easily processed (sawn, cut, etc.), with a slight heating (about +70 ° C) becomes pliable and will accept any of the specified form. The presence of a range of ancillary accessories (external, internal, end corners and connecting, fastening clips) facilitates the installation and splicing plinth at the corners, avoiding zapilivanie and precise adjustment of its length, and give the finished appearance of the room. Like other plinths SL-1948 is attached to the walls with "clip" that comes complete with dowels and screws (from Austria). With smooth walls of the gap between the clip is 50 cm, if the wall has local irregularities, clips are installed more often, so that the plinth is not torn from the wall. We recommend using only the genuine Austrian fasteners, since a similar Russian fasteners made of sheet steel does not possess sufficient rigidity and elasticity. This leads to the separation of skirting from the wall after a short period of operation. Mounting clips are very simple: 1. clip is placed on the ready, clean the floor and move up to the wall 2. Pencil marks the spot on the wall for the hole 3. drilled hole diameter, the diameter dowels, 4. plug is inserted into the hole and clip attached to the screw. Once all the clips are installed in this manner, skirting is installed by simply pressing. How ringed floor? There is yet another object of wood flooring accessories - rings. Why should they? Okinte look flat, and you will see the heating pipes. Clearances a master parquet professionals do. But they will not be able to close the regular plinth. Just here and need the ring, and they are specially made of two halves. Need to "surround" these halves of the pipe and glue them that if you want you can do yourself. It is a miracle of human ingenuity master Swedish firm Bona made from the best wood - oak, beech or ash. Rings are sold at $ 9 per pair. At the apartment, on average need of the Rings 6-8. In principle, will not very expensive, but very beautiful. Another useful thing in the economy - nut. Laid nut, of course, at the threshold, but not outside, but inside the apartment - in front of the room, bathroom, kitchen ... Nut looks like a narrow decorative strip - metal, wood or cork - and needed to close the joints between different types of flooring. For example, in the living room you lay parquet flooring in the bathroom - a beautiful ceramic tile in the nursery and the bedroom - carpet and the kitchen - linoleum. All the wonderful and beautiful. But the joints! If you do not hide them with nut, then, firstly, will not finish and unobtrusive elegance in the interior, and secondly, if you do not fix nut joint (say, between the parquet and linoleum) - with the time required to start the problem. In the gap at the joints between the flooring and carpet beating a lot of dust and dirt that no vacuum will not stand. Metal and wooden nut in his own good. Wood, for example, you can pick the tone at the desired tree species: they will be well in harmony with wooden furniture, doors, frames ... Complete with mounting nut is always sold as rack (the one bolted to the floor with screws, and it has glued himself nut). Over time varnish on the nut, of course, poobotretsya, but it is easy to recover one stroke brushes. Variation in prices for these useful products rather large - from $ 20 to $ 60 per set. Metal nut make "a bronze, silver or gold." They are perfectly in tune, for example, decorative door knobs, and also successfully fit into the interior of an apartment or office. Metal nut sold separately from the mounting rails. This is done not by accident - if the paint wears off with the nut, then they have to throw away and buy a new nut. And bolted to the floor rail will do nothing (even after many years), and, of course, no change is needed. Mounting rails can be bought for 180-230 rubles, and the nut expensive - approximately 200-380 rubles. Wooden and metal nut, in turn, are of three types: straight, leveling and finishing. Direct used to cover the joints between two different kinds of flooring in adjacent rooms or to process the transition from one type of coverage to another. But direct Nut useful if both meet at the same level. If coverage were at different levels (this often happens during the transition from the parquet on the softer coverings - carpet, linoleum), then here it goes wooden and metal leveling nut. And they both make the transition from one room to another neat and beautiful. Trailing Nut mostly needed in the hallway or in the balcony, that is, in places where there is a level difference of sex. In the formed gap (between the flooring and the threshold) and laid nut, which closes it with his "body." But the most universal - it's cork nut (price per meter - $ 20). At your request they can make any shape - for example, a semi-circle or zigzag. Moreover, the nut can be both ends and leveling, and direct. They consist of three layers: the two vertical thin planochkami sandwiched layer of cork. When the flooring "plays" (shrinking, crack), the tube will "work" like a spring. And these nut can still be great to save money - no mounting rails for them not to. They need to stick to the same base as the parquet floor, and they clearly fit flush with the flooring. The only negative - this nut can not be glued at the junction of flooring with linoleum or carpet, because technically they can not cover the raw edge of the cover.
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