The choice of flooring for your home, it is very complex, in addition to personal taste different factors come into play ..
- Thickness parquet,
- Dimensioni tables,
- Finish of the floor,
- Which installation is suitable for your floors.
The thickness of the wood that is your parquet is to be observed carefully! One of the most important things to consider when choosing a wood floor is just the total thickness of the wood to be used. Choosing the thickness of 10 mm are used parquet strips (50/60/65/70 mm width and length mm 250/350) and pre-finished planks (width 90 mm and length mm 600/900) and both are glued to the bottom . If the rooms are not large (eg. Apartments 40/60 sqm. Rooms in which generally do not exceed the 18/20 sqm.) You can use the matchsticks (m / m 14 x 70/75 x 300 / 500), planks (m / m 15/16 x 90/120/150/160 x 600/1800) with the result of having a floor divided into wood strips or planks of relatively small size but with a very pleasant result from the point of view aesthetic and at an affordable price. If the rooms are larger, you can choose freely between the floors of the Classic lines or color or prefer the big boards (3 layers m / m 15 x 148/190/220 x 1200/1900) that do appreciate the beauty of the plot and the grain of the wood. The surface finish of the flooring is important. Both the oil finish that the paint to have advantages and disadvantages to take into account.
Advantages and disadvantages of parquet with paint finish:
Advantages of paint can be removed with soap and water, you do not see footprints, if they fall drops of water, juice or otherwise does not remain or spots or streaks. It 's very suitable for bathrooms and kitchens.
Disadvantages: smears, caused for example by dragging of furniture without pads on the legs, are less visible because they carry out a new sanding.
Advantages and disadvantages of parquet with oil finish
Advantages of oil: it leaves the surface of the wood (open pore), making the appearance of parquet very "hot" and "alive." If the flooring is crawled, you can always proceed locally in the drafting of oil recovery by almost disappear smear.
Disadvantages: In the kitchen stains of oil or sauce can leave a slight halo and the same goes for the water droplets especially in the bathrooms. These zones are always recoverable by the writing on the oil stains. It is advisable to give the oil at least once every year and a half in order to obtain an effect of the floor still alive and beautiful.
The parquet-finish paint effect oil
For those who want to have a wood floor with the look of an oiled and benefits of the paint is still possible to make a painting effect oil. In this case the aesthetic appearance of the parquet is to an oiled floor but with the advantage of easy cleaning and the possibility to lay it also in bathrooms and kitchens without any problem.
Generally for sizes strips, wood strips and planks we recommend a paint finish for easy cleaning and maintenance rather than brushed finishes and / or oiled, however, that do not put out the grain of the wood due to the relatively small size of wood strips and planks.
In the tables of higher dimensions such as oak instead are possible, finishes with natural oil or bleached or antique finishes, or with pigmentation of different colors and oil paint effect able to bring out the grain of the wood by brushing.
The installation of wood flooring
* The wood to be 10/14 mm using the glued installation
* The wood to 15 mm can be used both lay the glued floating installation
For floating installation takes however tables of larger size constructed in three layers (the layer of noble wood with a thickness of about 4 mm, the intermediate layer composed of strips of spruce places transversely with respect to the wearing layer, and a third layer of counterbalancing);
The floating installation is faster, requires the use of a mat of foamed polyethylene (PE).
The glued installation is used especially in the case of floor heating where the wood is subjected to greater heat stresses (however it is also possible floating installation with the use of a mattress suitable for specific cases of floor heating).
