Advices - How to install hardwood floors by yourself
Hardwood floor is a versatile and very resistant product. Beside his special aspect, hardwood floor also offers class, elegance and style to your room.How to install hardwood floors by yourself
Before starting installing the hardwood floors, you must make sure that the floor is ready, checking some essential aspects. Thus, you must ensure that the surface is perfectly flat. After that, cleaning is the second step. There should be no scrap or plaster dust. Last but not least, the floor must be perfectly dry.Installing hardwood floors will be always at the end of renovation works of the house and are therefore the last phase.
Also as a very important advice, when buying hardwood floors, add 10% of the total area of room to include losses incurred due to cutting and assembly
Tips for a pleasant aspect of the room
The best way to install the hardwood floor is to use the wood boards oriented parallel to the longest wall of room. Direction boards should take into account where are located the entry door and the windows. You can stretch on the floor a few wood boards without paste them in order to help you decide the direction of the wood boards direction.If the room is ready for installation and all the materials and tools are in place, an experienced installer of parquet can fit about 60 square meters per day.
Technical mount with adhesive
This method involves soldering the hardwood floors; this method is similar with installing sandstone. You have to use a moisture resistant adhesive; you have to start with the exterior wall and you have to lay on adhesive on 5 hardwood boards. After that the hardwood boards have to be placed immediately on the floor.Make sure that the hardwood floor is located; also, make sure it does not move on the wet adhesive.
Additional adhesive arrived by mistake on the surface of hardwood floor should be immediately removed, using a dry sponge. After an hour from the assembly, it must be pressed to make sure there were no gaps or bubbles formed by air between him and the floor. If you notice that some areas have some "game" (move), put weights over the hardwood floors to press it and to ensure a uniform paste.
Mounting plinths and final operations
After you repeated the operations described above and you are finished installing the hardwood floors in the room, follows mounting plinths. This is installed using the same adhesive, using the combination to obtain a continuous line along the walls and corners to his joints, and corner exterior and interior corner.Clean the surface to remove any traces of adhesive, wood scraps or dust.
Let the fresh surface covered with hardwood floors free for two days (not entering the room, no place furniture or other heavy objects in the room.)
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