How to Use Best Methods of Arrangement of Wooden Floors in the Apartment

Wooden floor apartment has many advantages both operational and external. Place the wooden floor in a small apartment of the old Soviet plan can be on their own, choosing the right flooring material and theoretically acquainted with the process technology.

 

As for the material, there is general agreement to the advantage of the use of conifers. They are great for finish and rough decking. If the owner wants to give the interior refinement, it can put expensive parquet texture with mahogany or walnut, oak boards, etc. Lumber prices are average - it is cedar, larch, pine, and spruce, fir floorboards in the form of varying length, thickness and width. And in each case you have to buy future floorboards, on the basis of individual assessments size and architectural features of the apartment.

 

Arguments in favor of choosing a wood floor in the apartment

 

·         Environmental safety. Natural raw materials always primacy of numerous synthetic materials. The reason for this - a universal concern about their own health and comfort of the family.

 

·         Healing properties of wood. Softwood that excel in the home atmosphere for years, even after treatment. For people suffering from diseases of the respiratory system or heart, finishing flat natural wood is much more useful than "not breathing" artificial materials.

 

·         Financial savings on the finish. Wooden floor boards from quality cannot paint, not stoning and leave in its original form without any cost after installation. The only protective treatment that is certainly necessary - Floor boards varnish.

 

·         Possibility of warming. The boardwalk is suitable for underfloor heating system arrangement.

 

·         Aesthetic appeal. Wood in the interior, combines natural beauty and traditional style that is always in fashion.

 

·         Durability. Properly furnished floors in a small apartment can serve for decades without major repairs.

 

·         Easy restoration. Unlike solid expensive coatings in the case of local damage to the boards, you can quickly fix the problem by changing only one board.

 

·         Imaginary extension of the small area. "Playing" direction, length and width of the boards during installation, you can significantly improve the spatial effect of the small room, make it visually more spacious.

 

Basically, people are afraid to use wood in the interior of only one, but with good reason - the risk of fire. But the producers of finished lumber consider this problem and treated before release floorboards special flame retardants. They include substances which retard burning of wood, mainly carbon monoxide from. Carbon monoxide, in fact, is the main danger to human life in the event of fire.

To guarantee (if there is no accurate information on the seller of this procedure), the buyer can make boards impregnating himself, before making wooden flooring in the apartment. You have to buy a special liquid to store household chemicals or construction materials. And not only the substance but also insecticide wood from insects, antiseptic from mold and harmful bacteria can now be purchased via the Internet in any quantity. There is a mixture of universal application, combining different types of protection. Carefully read the instructions before buying and consult with specialist woodworker on the effectiveness of a drug.

 

How to select the optimal size of the board for the floor?

 

Which board is better to choose - wide or narrow? The same or different lengths? In all these variants have their advantages in terms of the appearance of the coating. Floor of a set of longer and shorter boards builders called parquet - it looks original, unusual. Using different wood textures, shades, you can create a very interesting design option and even some "palace mosaic" in the Russian baroque style. It all depends on personal desires.

 

Floorboards length of the room, stacked strict rows, more traditional (and laying require fewer steps). Board large width looks solid, thoroughly and soundly. But wide floorboards and heavier in weight and exposed to active deformation due to its massiveness. Over time, the surface of the floor cracks may appear, which will need to putty, advantageous in this regard narrow boards, which, if a little dry up, damage is hardly noticeable.

 

The main styles of wood flooring:

 

·         Option "deck board." If you prefer not to putty and sanded to a smooth surface of the floor, you can arrange the effect of the deck boards. To do this, every floorboard treat plane, taking off from two sides face chamfer plane. These floors thanks configuration boards are less exposed to contamination. Get something like the self-cleaning surface during operation.

·         Option "smooth floor." After laying all the boards are polished at the joints and on the entire surface. When his unit must handle well the joints of the ridges and grooves, eliminating the slightest irregularity.

 

If you want to extend the illusion small room Lay floorboards towards the window end. The incident light from the window will create the illusion of increasing the area in length.

Acknowledge the fact, what the load will be applied to the floorboards - in which areas it will be intense space where people will be more likely to go, and in what places will stand furniture. Where often walk a lot, you need to move along the stacked boards. Walk across the axial direction of stacking - it means shuffling quickly erase his shoes on the floor protective lacquer coating. Will often make redecorating, refurnish lacquer layer.

If the wood is fresh, good grades, many do not seek to paint the floor. On sale today, you can find tools that protect the natural wear wood, surface abrasion, and retain its original color. Basically floorboards reveal lacquers. Effective protection against damage provides material made based on polyurethane.

Another option - surface treatment oily substance, which added beeswax. Oil-wax mixture gives a nice elegant floorboards shine, and all the properties of the tree remain intact. Microclimate of the room in which equipped waxed floors, especially comfortable and conducive for living people.

 

Technology decking plank

 

·         Before you make the wood floors in the apartment, it is necessary to conduct a series of operations in a particular order:

·         Take out the furniture and personal belongings, freeing all living space

·         Remove the old coating to the surface of the overlap

·         Install support bars for laying lag

·         Lay lag intervals calculated according to the severity and width boards

·         Mount boards

·         Run surface finish

·         If you want to lay additional insulation under the floor, to equip the system "warm floor" is made between the joists and floorboards installation

 

 

Prepare for work such tools and materials:

 

·         Dowels 6x40

·         Screws 100 mm

·         Ruberoid

·         Supporting bars (planed timber 50x50)

·         Lags (estimated)

·         Floorboards (as calculated)

·         Pieces of plywood (gasket)

·         Screwdriver

·         Level or level

·         Perforator

 

Installation steps:

 

·         We first determine the level of the highest point of the surface and install the support rails in increments of no less than 350 mm. Under a bar puts a roofing material. Dowels and screws fix support on the ground.

·         Puts logs, checking the level of the horizontal plane. We start from the highest point, and then install a log across a distance by the length of the level, then - between stacked bars. Serial installation in turn (in a row) is less accurate adjustment.

·         Put on top of the lag between them and insulating materials. In between, you can place mineral wool, and lay on top of vapor barrier. Another option: between roughing and finishing floors Equips the system "warm floor" rack or modular.

·         Mount boards across lag from the first base plate edge anchoring screws. Last board must match the wall no closer than 30 mm.

·         We polish, varnish or cover oil-wax mixture.

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