Hardwood flooring
Articles about hardwood flooring. How to install and maintain hardwood flooring in your homes and business premises.
Parquet lacquering
Parquet is a serious and large investment to take its installing and lacquering for granted. To get the best appearance some effort should be made. A nice and stable appearance can be ensured only with a quality protection system. Two-component parquet varnishes, based on solvents, stand for the widely used group of products in the sphere of decoration and protection.
Wood in the exterior – flooring made of wood
Wooden flooring for exterior or decking is for the surfaces which are exposed to different atmospheric influences and because of that they have to satisfy certain criteria – they have to be long lasting and resistible to rotting. Next to the everyday wood types, now people can obtain numerous exotic species. They fulfil the highest aesthetic standards, as well as quality ones.
Hardwood flooring installation
Wood as a natural material distinguishes itself with special physical and elastic-mechanical characteristics which altogether demands special caution when choosing the material for a quality hardwood flooring installation. The market offers adhesives for parquets and ready estrich, estrich adhesives, self levelling floor compounds and parquet varnishes with wood cement fillers and cleaning products which guarantee quality operations disregarding the type of the flooring.
What do you need to know before you buy the parquets?
Heating resistance is an important characteristic of wood especially if the parquet is placed onto the floor heating. Lower value of resistance factor implies that the parquet is applicable for montage onto the floor with hot water floor heating. We advise you to choose thinner types of parquet (two-layer).
The warmth of the family home
We have answered some of your most frequent questions regarding parquet floors. What is the maximum allowed moisture percentage in the foundation over which you wish to install parquet floor? Can parquet flooring be installed over existing flooring or in the bathroom? You need to know the answer to questions like these before you start installing the floors.
How to choose the best parquet
The old parquet is completely dried out, panels are squeaking when walked upon and some parts of your parquet are glued off from the foundation. You need to change your flooring, and the search for the new parquet intimidates you…
Things to know before installing parquet floors
Always read and follow the manufacturers instructions before installing the parquet floor. Parquet floors is not suitable for outdoors, spaces with no heating, bathrooms or high humidity spaces. Parquet panels may be of different colors so make sure you arrange them according to your personal taste.
Soundproofing the floors
Sound or acoustic insulation of floors has to prevent transmission of so called impact sounds. Impact sound is created by direct contact (impact) of two objects. This type of sound is especially characteristic for the floors. We create these sounds by walking, moving furniture, dropping things on the floor, using vibrating machines on the floor etc.
