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What you need to know the buyer of the floor? How to choose a company contractor laying the parquet?

What you need to know the buyer of the floor? How to choose a company contractor laying the parquet? Paradoxically, parquet flooring , which history has more than one hundred years, is one of the most obscure and mysterious ingredients interior around us at home and work. Hardwood floors are perhaps the most expensive and by far the most long-lived finishing elements of any dwelling. It is therefore understandable interest in the buyer as a parquet floor, its strength and durability.  

What you need to know the buyer of the floor  

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First of all, your hardwood floor should have a name - the manufacturer, the country where it is made. Fear parquet homeless, without family, without plemeni.My have become accustomed to require a certificate of quality in cases of doubt when buying food or alcohol. Especially do not need to check for expired " Certificate of Conformity Standard ", and " hygienic certificate " at much more expensive flooring purchase.
The terminology used in promotional and information materials parquet trading companies, owes its origin to guests at the flooring and woodworking. Parquet grades A and B, the material from which it is produced, including oak, beech, ash, maple, etc. parquet, selected in tone wood, radial and tangential saw cut by a mixture of varieties of cut - " ". rustical Beware unrelated to the parquet epithets " elite ", " exclusive ", untranslatable names of foreign origin. The terms " eksvizit ", " SELECT " et al. can be used to refer to sweets and drinks, but they do not apply to the parquet. Their presence should alert the buyer.
 
The signs of good flooring

Wooden - precision and complex product of modern technology, are manufactured on the most modern machines and lines almost with engineering tolerances. However, it is fragile, and " live " building material, sensitive to the effects of changes in temperature, moisture and corrosion. The first and most obvious indication that it is protected from these effects, is the quality of the container. Parquet must be packed in a rigid box and welded in a tight plastic film. This will protect it from excessive moisture and mechanical stress during transportation and storage.

On the face, back, and end surfaces of parquet staves should not be dark burn marks on handling badly sharpened tool. This treatment is unlikely to provide the necessary geometric characteristics of the parquet. Cracks on the surface and deep in the rivets indicate internal and surface residual stresses in the floor that occur, usually at high temperature or forced drying or drying under fault conditions.

Parquet as a building material is essentially semi-finished and acquires finality after installation and handling at the customer. Currently on sale there are several varieties of flooring with certain elements of finishing. It is acceptable if it is pre-sanded or polished parquet. Pre-lacquered parquet, it would seem, simplifies and reduces the cost of processing the parquet on the floor, reduces the time needed. But in fact, many of the problems in the conventional case, the decisive stage in the installation team of workers in the framework of the warranty for pre-lacquered parquet is transferred at the time of the first sanding and replacement of lacquer. After three - four years after the installation of the floor you will find that each patent is riveting and chamfer to level the floor, do not have to grind it to 0.2 - 0.3 mm, and scrape more than a millimeter. As a result, laying flooring , pre-lacquered, has high requirements to the horizontal, and the layout is associated with the risk of damage during installation of the floor. The surface of the thus obtained ribbed.

Check at random geometric characteristics of the flooring can be folded several randomly selected parquet staves on a flat horizontal surface such as a desk. Try to fold the square, attach another riveting from the end of the square. If you are able to do it with his fingertips, without stress, unless the rivets are no gaps and are in close contact with each other along the entire length if no thresholds at the junction of surfaces and it can be done without clinging, calling card, then up manufacturin This flooring is all right.


How to choose a company-contractor for laying parquet

So you coped with the first task and choose flooring with a fairly high rate of " quality, divided by price ", a product known and responsible manufacturer, quality made and packaged. Now in front of you no less difficult task - to select the artist and the technology of laying in your home or office.

First of all, demand from the contractor license for the production of parquet works. We mean not just a building, namely parquet works. It is not often a part of the construction teams and companies who undertake boldly for the implementation of any complex finishing works on the " European " level specialists have parquet floor. A painter and a parquet floor of specialization, knowledge and skills are not closer than a dentist and a proctologist. For the builder of the water at the facility - a common occurrence, and for parketchika - death.

The term " building parquet flooring " largely relates to an apparatus required for parquet underlay. There are different stacking technology. Most of them are located in a range between schemes " concrete - glue - parquet " and " concrete - waterproofing - plywood - glue - parquet ". All these schemes have the right to life. However, to mount waterproof plywood flooring with glue and nails, and plywood to concrete base dowels or screws through waterproofing multilayer provides quite a different quality than an attempt to permanently connect the three diverse material - wood, adhesive and concrete. Remember that intelligently and carefully executed subbase - a pledge of strength and durability of your floor.

The city master left the magnificent samples of their work in the palaces of St. Petersburg, Peterhof and Ostankino. Master was packing for the year of about one square meter of flooring, since the manufacture of flooring and tools. Fortunately, many of the industry today offers a comprehensive range of tools for placing and finishing the parquet. This grinding and polishing machines of different operating principle with built-in vacuum cleaners, pneumatic tool for zeroing plywood and parquet and airless lacquering, precision saws, industrial vacuum cleaners, various measuring devices and moisture meters.

Make sure that those to whom you have entrusted laying parquet, equipped with varied and modern tools. On this depends the quality of their work and the strength and aesthetic characteristics of your floors.

The availability of modern grinding machines with built-in vacuum cleaners and special safeguards allow for the final stage of finishing of your apartment - laying, sanding and parquet lacquers - so not to damage done to the previous stages. Parquet is placed and processed after completed all the work on finishing related to water and dirt. First you need to reschedule the walls, all the paints, adhesives and tiling, dry cement and then laid parquet. Violation of the order of execution of works on finishing parquet flooring is fraught with defects that may occur after a long time, but usually within the first year after installation.

It is important to guarantee the artist free removal of defects for at least a year after acceptance. For the year twice (at the beginning and end of the heating season) flooring is affected by significant changes in humidity to drop 30-35%. As a rule, if the parquet spent a year with no cracks and swelling, it will last a specified period of operation, for which high-quality flooring may reach 50 - 80 years and more.

Parquet - a wonderful natural cover, where three generations of your family will live happily ever after. But if for some reason you can not afford to right now put a high quality and quite expensive parquet flooring, refrain from installing a cheap and low-quality flooring, assembled somehow. Better to use a relatively inexpensive coating of carpet or any flooring substitutes to survive the hard times it, and when things change for the better, go back to the idea of ​​a good hardwood floor. Your patience will be rewarded.
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