Thermal insulation of floors on ground

Plate on the ground - often the least costly system for organizing the foundation, the choice of which may accelerate the construction process and create an inexpensive universal foundation. At the same time, cold concrete floors are becoming a source of discomfort. Properly insulated slab on a ground not only retain heat, but also help create the necessary comfort in the rooms. Insulation, which comes into contact with the ground, is in extreme conditions and subjected to various influences, including - long-term effects of moisture, many cycles of freezing / thawing. These factors may reduce the effectiveness of insulation. Consequently, thermal insulation, which will be used in ground contact should be inert to the effects of soil moisture and that these factors do not affect the insulating properties of the material. Extruded polystyrene (XPS) - an ideal material for such purposes. Freezing is extremely weak effect or no effect on the insulation, which remains dry (do not absorb moisture). These properties are plates XPS, in particular, the plate Primaplex. Why should insulate the floors? without adequate insulation of 15-20% of the total losses in a building fall on floors, floor insulation can improve the comfort of the room. In a room with non-insulated floor there is a significant temperature gradient: from floor to ceiling - up to 7 ° C, from the floor to a man's head - to 5 ° C insulation flooring eliminates "cold bridges" in places of conjugation of the walls and floor, reducing thus the heat loss .

Tips on choosing carpeting

Selection of colors. Some advice with regards to color selection. The color of carpet and its texture will influence the nature of the room. Coating color can completely change the look of the room. The choice of color is of paramount importance when purchasing carpet. blue - the color of the sea and sky, reminiscent of holiday and summer days, it's fresh color is pleasant to read, suitable for bedrooms and living rooms; green - most often found in nature, soothing and relaxing, ideal for living rooms, living rooms, ocher (red- yellow) - the color of the sun, bringing light makes the room warm and cozy, brown (his shades) - gives a sense of calm, is good for rooms where permanent work and rest; gray - the color is recommended for use in small rooms, as it increases the visual room, is well combined with metal and glass. Rooms that lack sunlight will seem warmer and brighter with sunny yellow, apricot-colored or soft beige tones. Cool colors, blue and green hues, soften and make a cool room with lots of windows and sunlight. On the covers of bright colors less visible traces of reflections, while on the covers of dark tones is less noticeable stains and dirt. Darker colors of carpeting are more effective in rooms with heavy traffic. Not bright at the yarn will also be less visible traces. To facilitate care coverage, it is better not to use the cover of light tones in the living room, dining room, bedroom for guests. Multi-colored carpets are extremely effective, since they completely invisible dirt that accumulates during the day.

The final touch

Vitaly Lviv Skirting can either comply formleniyu walls and floors, or to contrast with them. Therefore, you should pay close attention to its shape, color and material. Outlining the floor - a task easier and not as ambitious as its styling, but still quite important. We are talking about a final touch, which will give the picture of perfection and set off the beauty framed surface, be it flooring, laminate or carpet. Skirting can either comply formleniyu walls and floors, or to contrast with them. Therefore, you should pay close attention to its shape, color and material. Plinth - is the final finish flooring. If you entrust the production of solid parquet flooring company, besides money, to think about anything not necessary. But more often people want to save money and hire a "leftist" artists. And it is not necessary that the latter will make the floor is bad and of poor quality. Still does not interfere to know what are the materials as and when they apply, in which cases, on the contrary, do not apply. Because, as stated in the Latin proverb, forewarned is forearmed, and possessing the knowledge, you can better control the process and intervene in it as needed. The oldest and still most popular form of plinth - from solid wood. Often selected the same tree species, as for the floor. Inlaid oak flooring best turn over the same oak tree (but there are plenty of other interesting solutions). The length of an oak plinth rail is usually 2,5 m. Very nicely framed parquet plinth edge of mahogany.

How to properly prepare the floor to the floor topcoat

Vitaly Lviv All we have plenty of time to notice how quickly repaired the floor in public areas loses its former beauty: linoleum yellow and rubbed, hardwood plank and stir unpleasant creaking under the feet of the surface of carpeting covered mounds and folds. And this occurs despite the claims of most manufacturers that guarantee the life of their coating no less than 10 - 15 years. We decided to look and understand what is required to maintain a decent form of sex in public places and whether it is possible to avoid or delay the onset of irreversible change? So, depending on the application range of floor coverings can be divided into two unequal categories: Domestic. Their steles in apartments and private homes, where the load on the floor are small and the coating does not impose too much to ask; Commercial. Designed for rooms that are frequently used: offices, shops, hotels, industrial premises, etc. As it turned out, enough to choose the right flooring for a particular room. A recipe for success includes literacy training grounds and adherence to the technology of its styling. Only when these two conditions will cover a variety of serve and please you with its looks very long. To understand what they mean by "competent training grounds," we consider this process in detail. And do not dwell on the floor, requiring the rough alignment. We turn the floor, which in principle is ready for installation: it is a smooth, dry and free of cracks, dirt, and which requires only a "clean" level.

The elegance of either sex

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.

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.

The device ties with "quick-" self-leveling floor

Self-leveling floors - perhaps the most effective and convenient way to get good subfloor. However, for such a floor, there are certain rules described in this example. Observing them, you can get a reliable, durable and smooth base. In our example, we tell about the device ties with "quick-" self-leveling floor. Laying Laying damper damping tape tape device before the tie with a "self-leveling floor" set the damping tape on the perimeter of the room. It is necessary for assuming the linear extensions that may arise in the field pairing of sex with walls of the room. The width of the tape is chosen from the calculation of estimated thickness of the inlet floor. A damping tape is usually made of expanded polypropylene of thickness 4-6 mm, or other similar material. The finished tape, adhesive, can be found on sale, in addition you can make yourself a tape, cut into strips of polypropylene and using adhesive (eg glue COP). Determining the level of future floor and room layout before filling self-leveling screed determine the level of future coverage. This may be a specified level (in our case, 40mm from ground level). If, however, need to make fiber a minimum, the floor level by the height of the highest point of the base plus 0.5 cm (minimum layer for Quick sexes). So, to mark the level do the following: Step 1. Install and fix at a certain height (level 0) in the room laser level Step 2. Postpone the required distance down from the laser beam on the walls of the room and connect the points obtained.

Poured floors

Getting to repair the premises, you must pay special attention to the unit floor. And before embarking on the choice of materials to be used in the work, determine what requirements you present to the flooring. The floor must be kept warm, durable and attractive appearance. It is also important to its styling does not require much time and effort. Self-leveling floors - this is the right solution for those bringing the above requirements for floorings. What is self-leveling floors? Self-leveling floors - is the polymer mass, which is applied to the concrete surface and the solidification forms a homogeneous seamless coverage. Scope leveling floor is so large that they can be considered universal material for the device floor. Floor fillers used in the device floors of apartments, kindergartens, schools, canteens, offices, hospitals, hotels, industrial buildings, parking lots, even plants. This broad scope of benefits due to self-leveling floor compared to other materials used in the device floor. The advantages of self-leveling floors are: Self-leveling floors remove all surface irregularities than favorably with those of other floor coverings. Longevity. The service life of self-leveling floor can reach several decades. Subject to correct installation and compliance with their recommendations on the operation, which enable professionals. Solidity. Floor fillers have no joints unlike the floors, installation of which was produced by another technology. Such coverage is more aesthetically pleasing.

Laying carpet

Preparation of the base under the carpet. Main requirements: - smooth - no defect must be> 7 mm on the 2nd - dry - hard - healthy (ie, without capillary moisture). Scheme for the preparation of foundation: Sweep and vacuum cleaner. Scrape off adhesive residues, etc. Examine the "health" reasons, ie, is there a capillary leak moisture. It is not usually on the floors. She is on the first floor, ie we have the first type of foundation. You must use the epoxy primer. Check availability of capillary water - install condensate in the same place for 3-5 days, eg an inverted jar or sealed film adaptation. Polymerization primer - on wet primer poured sand dries out. Remnants of sand removed. The result - a healthy foundation. Please note: - raise the primer on the plinth level, so that moisture has not moved on the wall - you can not lay on the floor covering, the humidity is more than 3%. Hardness at the concrete base provides self-leveling compound. The role of leveling - a good end of the product, eg, coating. There are two classes nivelirovok: P2 - private rooms, a thin layer of 1 to 4 mm. P3 - for public space, you need a higher compression strength, most adhesion to the substrate, the thickness of 1 to 10mm. If the floor is wood you can prepare for the installation of carpeting in two ways: to lay a whole surface of chipboard, putty the joints, remove all the protruding elements (nail heads, screws), sweeping, vacuuming, apply a special primer on the old boards to remove all protruding elements (hat nails, screws), the surface ottseklevat, primed, apply a self leveling compound for the tree.

Glass floor as part of the interior

Natalia Zinorova I remember a few years ago I first saw the glass floor in a restaurant in the Czech Republic. The design has made me a lasting impression not only for its beauty and attractiveness, but also that such a frail-looking materials like glass, can withstand enormous loads. This article will tell you all about the design features and installation technology of glass floor. Perhaps, you want to pleasantly surprise the visitors of your home, decorating your home this unusual interior elements? Today, glass floors can be seen as a spectacular interior element in administrative and office buildings, shopping malls, concert halls, restaurants and boutiques. Not spared newfangled trend and the interiors of apartments and town houses. Glass used for decoration of flooring as follows: the individual elements (imagine a glass "window" closes gap in the floor) in the form of tape (glazed "track" focuses attention on any part of the room) in the form of a large field glass (glass area, covering almost the entire surface of the floor). In addition, some addressed to such architectural delights as the glass ceiling - floor-ceiling. Flight of fancy designers virtually unlimited. Glass floor matting and tinting, make the application of color film, is applied by silk-screen paintings, decorated by sandblasting (this you can learn from our article), equipped with different devices, lighting, floor to settle in aquariums and terrariums. Glass floors - a phenomenon of our apartments are still exotic, and treated with different people is ambiguous.