Parquet board: laying yourself

With each passing day the number of types of flooring becomes more and more. But one thing remains the same: the parquet board is still as popular. And involuntarily there is an opinion that this popularity will never disappear. To date, many people want to have a parquet board in their homes on the floor. Self-packing by this type of coating is not very difficult. If you do not want to spend money on specialists, you should understand the main points.

The parquet can also be spread over the lags used in the houses of the old sample, and on the concrete foundation. Laying the parquet board with your own hands on concrete should be accompanied by careful leveling of the base with a screed. There are two ways, choosing one of which, you can put a floor covering: floating and glued. In the second case, the boards are fixed to the base with adhesive solution. At the moment, professionals mostly resort to the floating method, with which it is easy and fast to lay the parquet board. The laying by hand in this case is carried out on special substrates of small thickness. The panels themselves are connected to each other by means of a lock.

Most likely, many times compared a parquet with a laminate, as both that, and other covering represents structure with a considerable quantity of layers. But if you want that in your house there were ecologically clean floors from real wood, then you need a parquet board. Self-packing of this coating does not differ from the technology of laying the laminate. The technology of parquet production is such that all panels are adjusted strictly to the size of the room. With the help of special spikes and grooves the connection is made easily and simply, without any sagging. To date, the market can buy a variety of types of flooring: a parquet board (an array), and piece parquet, and boards, and many others. Each of them has both advantages and disadvantages. Some varieties of parquet require additional baking, polishing and varnishing. If you do not want to deal with all this, then you should choose the parquet flooring that goes on sale already ready. In addition, the parquet has a large number of various drawings: herringbone, deck, braid. At the moment, single-side panels have become very popular. Another advantage of the parquet board: the laying by yourself of this material can be made on warm floors. In this case, it is worth knowing about some nuances. For example, the temperature of the floor anywhere in the room should not exceed +27 degrees. In addition, it will be necessary to lay an additional layer of waterproofing material.

Parquet board has gained such wide popularity also because it is easy to take care of. It's enough just to wipe it with a dry cloth and use a vacuum cleaner from time to time. If you are going to do a wet cleaning, then the rag should be well squeezed. When using a detergent, please note that it should not contain ammonia.