Parquet, all the choices to make flooring

A wood flooring besides being beautiful entails additional advantages compared to a normal and common flooring tiles made of?

When addressing the restructuring in an apartment suffered one of the choices is that relating to the type of flooring to use. In the past, the choice was simple, the floor was made ​​of the joint tiles , choose from these meant to decide at most the size and the type of color or finish, if matta or glossy. Today, however, the extensive studies performed on materials that allow us to know at 360 ° their characteristics and their properties, allow us the same time to make floors with any of them, from rubber elements, glass, wood etc.  suitably shaped according to the needs of the buyer. Just the wood in recent years has played an important role in the construction world. The good looks of a wooden floor makes the room more comfortable, no doubt creating a state of mental well-being in people who live that space, but the wood is also a material that has excellent properties, which make it preferable the parquet to other types of floorings.

Choice of flooring: size, type, installation, geometry, finish

When choosing a particular type of flooring the main aspect to be taken into account is the intended use of the environment in which we're going to place it. If you wish to adopt the floors in environments such as kitchens and bathrooms, which usually have flooring with tiles because considered humid environments, the choice of the type of wood to be used must be particularly accurate, in fact in environments of this type it is usual to choose essences particularly hard as Teak  that, that in addition to moisture also resist well to create conditions in which sudden changes of temperature. 

Generally the parquet it is found commercially in the form of strips or planks with a rectangular shape, the strip flooring is defined as such only if the surface has a layer of real wood with a thickness of at least 2.5 mm. When it comes to flooring a further distinction to be made ​​between the solid parquet , that is formed by a single layer of solid wood and laminated flooring , consisting instead of multiple layers, of which only the first is of solid wood, hardwood, the remaining layers are made ​​from laminated wood or multilateral. But the parquet must be distinguished for different type of installation , we can indeed speak of floating parquet (or floating), nailed and glued parquet flooring. 

The floating floor is usually used when choosing the plank large, this type can also be applied over existing flooring, it is important that the base surface is perfectly flat, if it were not acting in a the application of a self-leveling product. This system in fact is based on the principle of the joint between the individual strips, in fact, does not provide for the use of any type of adhesive base if not of small layers of glue along the perimeter fittings and adhesives to be spread along the grooves of the joint . The nailed parquet, unlike the floating, requires a footboard support also made ​​of wood, which then will be positioned on the beams placed at a distance of about 30-50 cm with a section  on which then the individual planks from male-female joints are then subsequently nailed. Usually for this type of flooring you are using planks thickness ranging from 1 cm to 2.2 cm, of a width which varies from 6 to 14 cm in length running from 40-50 cm and can reach up to a maximum of 2 m. For this type of flooring may occur in circumstances where the presence of plants prevents the nailing in some points, in this case and may be used where necessary to a mixed system of gluing and nailing .

The glued parquet is the most widespread in the absolute, the strips are glued on an existing floor or on a concrete slab, also in this case it is important the flatness of the surface on which it is going to operate so it is equally important that the bottom is perfectly dry, this is because the presence of moisture would be to damage the flooring itself. It then has a layer of glue, making sure that this is not too much to create imperfections in the subsequent step of positioning of the strips. The drawings that can be created by the combination of the various strips are varied, we speak in this case of laying geometry , the most common are those with a herringbone pattern, a ship's deck (also known as a caisson or running), checkerboard, mosaic etc. ... But the variability of the design that you want to get may depend on different wood choices that trade are so many.

The element, however, can make each different from the other is certainly the parquet finish , in fact are different types of treatment to which the strips may be subjected after installation. The coating provides the brush it chin of the surface with a first layer of the bottom, need to clog the pores of the flooring (the wood being a porous material) and then a series of successive layers which have the function to create a protective film which can be depending the type of product used gloss, semi-gloss or matte and must be maintained over time.

The oil treatment , unlike the two previous techniques, does not create a film on the surface of the wood, but impregnates the same protecting it, giving it shine but leaving it transpire at the same time. 
Even this type of finish as well as the wax is more expensive and requires definitely a maintenance more accurate  than the painting. In conclusion we can say that the floors in an environment is not only beautiful but it creates a state of well-being, above all due to its versatility and its characteristics.