Hardwood materials

Parquet materials include flooring itself, as well as materials in some way mimic the parquet. Parquet - wood material in the form of plates made of hard wood. Basically was spread parquet from oak, beech, elm, ash, maple, elm, beech, birch. Plate on the side edges are ridges and grooves. Usually located on the crest of one long and one short edge, and the other two slots are made. Much less common flooring of the two types of plates - plates only on some slots, while others only ridges. Ridges and grooves provide a tight connection of individual plates in a single whole - a great beauty and environmentally friendly floor. The thicker the parquet plate, the longer and better is parquet and so, naturally, it is more expensive. When people talk about "real" hardwood floor, it usually refers to two of its kind - piece and mosaic. Laying the "real" hardwood floor - a very time-consuming and demanding finishing operations. In recent years the market went from non-traditional flooring materials for Russia - pressed bamboo and hardwood Latin American trees. There are also several types of materials produced in the search for ways to optimize the work of parquet - parquet boards, parquet panels and inlaid parquet floors. Relatively recently appeared and replacement flooring - laminate. Parquet Parquet - plank thickness of 15-20 mm, a width of 30-90 mm and lengths of 150-500 mm with grooves and ridges. This flooring is made only from dried material of high quality. There are specific requirements for the upper, outer side of the plate - it is not allowed scratches, cracks and knots. Precision manufacturing of ridges and plates determine the surface quality of the parquet laying. If the ridges and grooves are not satisfied with the right quality, it will require considerable effort on the final design of the floor - sanding and polishing after laying the flooring. Wisely chosen and well-laid hardwood has a beautiful appearance, and with proper care can be no replacement for several decades. The high cost and complexity of laying parquet limit its application in mass construction. Parquet wood block flooring boards are composed of two layers - top and bottom. The upper layer consists of strips of hardwood length of 150-200 mm and 6 mm thick. The lower layer is assembled from low-grade wood sticks. In order to prevent buckling of bars of the lower layer they are made from one wood species and make cuts in them. Two extreme bars are tongue and groove for joining boards. The layers are glued together with waterproof glue. The upper layer parquet is finishing - polished and covered with a layer of wear-resistant lacquer. Laying parquet is over sleepers or solid foundation. Mosaic parquet for official and ceremonial rooms used the most precious woods - walnut, Karelian birch, mahogany, beech, maple. Plate of the flooring have different forms and by selecting the color, texture of wood, as well as insertions of narrow-vein plates in different colors laid out an artistic ornament or a picture. In recent years, performance art laying flooring in the form of paintings by well-known classics, battle, romance or fantasy scenes has become a serious hobby of wealthy people. The cost of such floors - sometimes really works of art - up to several tens of thousands of dollars. Artistic masonry gradually supplanted the previous craze fans Jewelry flooring - parquet on the monotonous light with a few tens of matrices of various shapes burned ornament and covered with a thick layer of lacquer. Inlaid parquet inlaid parquet flooring is made up of plates 8-12 mm thick, recruited with a specific pattern and glued onto a paper face sheet. The sticker on the sheet of paper helps to avoid the selection of plates on-site installation. After laying mosaic parquet paper sheet is removed. The size of mosaic parquet: 400x400, 480h480, 520h520, 600x600 and 650h650 mm. Parquet panels parquet panels is a wooden square panels consisting of two layers. The base of the shield is made of low-grade wood, and the upper layer - hardwood plate made of precious wood. In an array of the lower layer parquet board made only slots. The upper layer of the plates has a thickness of 6-8 mm. Plates are well-fitted edge and do not have grooves and ridges. They are carefully selected, are placed close to each other and in this position are glued to the boards. Laying parquet boards is on the joists or concrete base. Bond between the panels are made using special wood inserts placed in the grooves of adjacent panels. Shields are made of different quality and size. Standard sizes of domestic producers are sizes: 400x400, 480h480, 520h520, 600x600 and 650h650 mm. Laminate flooring laminate - one of the new technologies offer an alternative to parquet floors based on an array of precious wood. Laminate - a plane of thickness 6-10 mm, the front surface is made of a thin layer of natural or synthetic material. Coatings applied to the front surface of the laminate are performed with normal and high resistance to wear. Laminate the plane come in two forms - with tongue and groove only at the two long edges of the plane or, as parquet, with grooves and ridges on all edges. Dimensions laminate plane depends on the manufacturer's instructions. So, PERGO laminate flooring company has the size 1200h200 mm. Laminate flooring can be installed on the old hardwood, timber, concrete, floor and tile floors. Laying laminate is on a "floating floor".