How to lay wooden floor

Despite the fact that the shelves of construction stores are singing a different kind of floor coverings, the tree is still in the trend, as well as dozens of years ago. This is an environmentally friendly material, which allows you to recreate a special microclimate. Even the coldest winter in the laid frost wood remains pleasant to the touch and warm. In addition, the tree is inherent in high performance characteristics, beneficially distinguished him on the background of synthetic materials. Thus, preference to the tree, learn how to sharpen the wooden floor.

1

Selection of material

The durability of the wooden floor is primarily determined by the quality of wood, so carefully approach the choice of material:

• Breed. Impecable due to their characteristics, wear resistance and strength are floors made from coniferous rocks to which cedar, larch, spruce, fir, ash, oak, beech and pine are calculated. However, the leader remains oak.
• Coloring. If you do not put an additional decorative coating on top of the wooden floor, but only plan to cover it with varnish, it is worth the preference to light wood, which has a beautiful pattern on the cut.
• Type of coating. Deciding with the breed, you should choose the type of coating: Parquet Board, Plumbing or Cropped Board, Adhesive Parquet Board.
• Humidity. Qualitative work is guaranteed only when using dry material. But the overwhelmed boards or wet tree are not good, except for deformation. For laying in the bathroom or in the kitchen, give preference to moisture-resistant rocks.
• Defects. It is not recommended to lay boards with defects on the surface, such as cracks, splits, scratches, or resin stains. It is better to buy a edged and tipped board that does not require grinding.
• Quantity. Buying material, do not forget to make a small stock - approximately 15%.

2

General recommendations

Before the flooring of a wooden floor, take note of the following tips:

• The wooden floor is recommended to be laid when the heating season has already ended, since the material will be sufficiently dried. If you take half the summer, then by winter wood will begin to dispel, which adversely affects the properties of the highest quality material.
• Be sure to cover the boards with a protective composition - with antipyarem to reduce the flange of the material and prevent the process of rotting wood.
• The plaques from the wrongness are impregnate with an antiseptic, for example, sodium fluoride.

3

Alignment of the base

The wooden floor flooring should carefully prepare a working base:

1. Of course, you can not try to achieve an ideal surface, but it should be even.
2. If it is present in it, commemorate them, because if there are those in the future, the coating will creak.
3. The simplest filler is an ordinary fine-grained sand, because it is able to fill even minor recesses. It must be pre-dry in the oven. In places where there is grudge, it will not be superfluous to add more sand and over again.
4. At the next stage, we will deal with waterproofing of the base. The material for this can serve as polyethylene in rolls with a thickness of 0.2 mm, laid by the brass. You can also use foil polyethylene, which is called foam. When installing waterproofing, make the wall allowance, which is 10 cm.

4

Installation Lag.

In the widespread way to improve the floor of the wood is considered to be the installation of it to lags, as it allows you to hide the differences in the level of the base, without requiring it to be thoroughly align, and disguise various communications:

• Lags are ordinary wooden beams, so they should be treated with moisture-repellent composition to increase properties, as well as hold in the room where work will be carried out for some time for acclimatization.
• For the manufacture of lag uses a bar, which has a size of 50x100 mm or 50x80 millimeters.
• Lags in the direction perpendicular to the fall of sunlight from the window. The step when installing the lag is recommended to choose, considering the thickness of the genital board: 60 cm, if the thickness of the board does not exceed 35 centimeters; 80 cm for boards with a width of 35 to 40 cm; About 1 meter, if their thickness is more than 40 cm.
• Installation from laying 2 lag opposite each other near the walls. Next, it is necessary to consolidate the Kapron thread, which will become a reference point for further work.
• Self-tapping screws are used to fastening the lag to the wooden base. When installing bars on a concrete or brick surface, prepare glue or dowel.
• The gaps that remain between lags should be filled with insulation. It is perfect for this glass gamble, which has a thickness of 5 cm more lag.

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Floating board

After installing the lag, go to the floor of the flooring of the boards:

1. Choosing the boards, it is worth paying attention to their size: the joints should be placed on the middle of the lag.
2. When laying the first row should be guided by a strained thread, making an indentation from the wall - the so-called temperature seam. It is enough to retreat one and a half centimeter.
3. Nails are selected, depending on the thickness of the board, given the proportion of 3 to 1.
4. The first board should be placed on the wall of the groove. For strengthening, nails are used, which are clogged at an angle of 45 degrees and take off the hat, applying Dobochnik.
5. The second board needs to be located in a spike toward the previous one, so that its spikes slam and the grooves on the first board.
6. By typing 2-3 meters of boards, it is recommended to compact them with wedges.
7. Having posted the entire room with boards, when installing the latter, also do not forget to provide for the temperature seam.

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Foundation of plywood or chipboard

Consider the method of creating an alignment floor using Phaneur or Chipboard:

• Start working with the installation of lighthouses, which will serve the screws. Muffy them with a step in 20-30 cm.
• When installing lag, it is necessary to take into account the thickness of plywood: what it is more, the less often it is to mount the bars.
• The grid of the bars is sewn selected by the material, be it chipboard or plywood, with a dusting on the lags, using the screws (9 pcs. On the sheet).
• Hats of selflessness must necessarily drow on 4 mm.
• Important: Plates should be laid on the waterproofing film to extend the usefulness time of the floor.

When flooring on the beams of inter-storey floors, they will also perform the functions of the supporting structure. But between them is still recommended to put additional lags, since there will be an increased noise without this. If you wish, the wooden floor can be used directly on the soil, turning attention to some points, the most important of which is the creation of high-quality waterproofing, which will resist the effect of water on wood.

Thus, laid throughout the rules of the wooden floor, subject to careful care, will serve you for many years, without losing its properties and an attractive appearance.