How to cover the floor with a parquet board

A parquet board is very easy to install and has a lot of advantages over other floor coverings. Without special training, having theoretical experience and observing the phase of action in the work, with the laying of parquet you can cope with yourself.

Start the floor with a floorboard after completing all the installations for installation of windows and doors, when the base is properly prepared (check that the surface is carefully dried, smooth, clean, without cracks, bulges and other flares). The room should be hermetically closed, well heated, with air humidity not more than 50-60%.

Conduct measurements of surface area. Calculate the required amount of material for your room. To the resulting result, add approximately 5% for waste when laying.

Within a few days, stand the boxes with a parquet board in the room where the laying will be conducted - the material must acclimatize. This is done to avoid subsequent cracking and deformations.

Before starting work, discover the factory packaging with a parquet board, inspect its quality and matching color. Material with defect elements can not be laid. Please note how freely do the door to the room after installing the coating.

To pre-prepared grounds to put a synthetic or natural substrate (cork coating, foamed polyethylene, plywood) with a thickness of no more than 2.5-3 mm. The edges of the gasket must be laid jack and are punctured by scotch, in order to avoid passing moisture to the parquet board and perform the role of noise and sound insulation.

The next step is the choice of a floor covering method that depends on the size of the parquet board. It can be a glue, floating method or fixing with nails. Fixing a parquet board with nails is used in large areas. It is less common to the adhesive method of laying panels, it is very laborious, when working with it, it is necessary to have certain skills and skills, it is used directly on the concrete tie. The floating method (lock connection) is the easiest in the installation, therefore it is used most often.

Before starting the installation, spread the parquet along the longest wall, check if it will need to be cut it. Measure the width of the room for calculating the ranks. When the room has the shape of a square, then start from the door to the window. Indoor with niches and large number of corners, put parquet according to the method of diagonal laying.

Staying with the removal of the ridge from the first row boards to provide sufficient gap width between the wall and parquet. The use of glue is not required (use it to give stiffness, only in the case of the future high weight load on the floor). Installation of parquet is similar to the assembly of the designer, the main thing is accuracy during the laying of the first row. Use spacers for free tree expansion.

Having laid out the first row and cutting off the surplus, start laying out the second row from the remaining section. In the case when in the first row, the board fall completely without a residue, start the second row, cutting off a small part of the parquet. Connect the boards with each other longitudinal and end locks. At the end of the installation of each row, do not forget to spin the boards with a rubber hammer (for a stronger and tight connection of locks).

Complete the installation of the installation of the plinth, which in width should be sufficient to close the technological gap. Remove the wedges left between the wall and the parquet, and attach the plinth to the wall.