Laying the floorboard with their own hands

One of the most sought-after and popular floor coatings is the board. This is a quality, eco-friendly material. Paul from wood will give home heat, comfort and comfort. This material has high sound insulation, well absorbs excess moisture, maintaining a certain microclimate indoors. Another advantage is the convenience of mounting. If necessary, the gender floor can be easily mounted with their own hands.

Choose materials for laying floors from the board

Modern industry offers the buyer a wide range of floorboards. The most popular and convenient material is a tipped floorboard. From one side there is a groove, and on the other - a special comb. Such a design makes it easy to collect floor covering in the castle. For convenience, the assembly produces models equipped with a lock from all sides. With the inside, the tipped boards for floors are equipped with a propyl. Due to it, the flexibility of the material increases.

When choosing a board, pay special attention to its quality. The maximum allowable humidity rate is 10%. Increasingly, the market appears with a moisture content of 7%. This option is ideal. Only using a dry board will allow us to succeed and mount durable coating. The presence of bitch and inaccuracies in geometric sizes is unacceptable. The source material for the manufacture of the floorboard is the highest-quality wood grade.

Boards release different sizes. The minimum length is 3 m, the maximum is 6 m. The thickness of the board mainly depends on the wood breed. The board is most in demand with a thickness of 28 mm. For example, an excellent option for mounting floors to lags is the use of a pine board with a thickness of 35 mm. But the oak boards are fond. This is due to the increased strength of this material. The boards width ranges from 8 to 15 cm. The most convenient and sought-after size is 10 cm. With increasing width, errors are growing in geometric sizes. Therefore, wide boards are better not to use.

All more often on sale appears covered with varnish boards. This is a very convenient material. Its use will allow the consumer to save a lot of time and effort. Yes, and it is impossible at home to achieve this quality processing. The only drawback is a high price.

I would like to pay special attention to another version of the floor material - glued gender. Consists of three bonded layers. Possesses the following advantages:

1. Very high quality.
2. Good performance.
3. No bitch and other defects.
4. The board is carefully selected by texture and color.
5. With drops of such indicators as humidity and temperature, very minor deformations are observed.
6. Geometric dimensions are stable in time.

The disadvantage is only one - the material looks too perfect, unfulstly.

Purchase board for the floor is better to implement in advance. Purchased material will be taken to the premises taken no later than 14 days before the start of work. During this time, wood will have time to acclimatize.

Fireboard laying methods

There are two main method of floating board:

1. Laying the floorboard with a parquet method. It is advisable to use only if there is a flat base. Otherwise, the number of preparatory work is increasing. There will be a need to:

• performing a concrete screed,
• the use of self-election mass
• masonry waterproofing layer.

Several varieties of parquet method of performing a concrete screed:

• Installation of genital boards directly on the concrete base.
• Installation on the base of waterproof plywood.
• Installation of geepboard on the old flooring.

The parquet method is extremely rare. This is due to its high labor intensity and significant material costs for the preparatory work. An exception is only installation on the old flooring.

2. Installing floor board on lags. A very popular way. This technology is beneficial from the parquet method of simplicity and low material costs. Successfully cope with the work on the shoulder anyone. The main thing is to show perseverance, patience and clearly follow the instructions. An important advantage of installing boards to lags is the ability to build communications under them. Computer cord will no longer be confused.

Float laying parquet

Most often, the need to use a parquet method occurs during repairs. The owners do not want to dismantle the old flooring. It is used as the basis for the new floor. In this case, it disappears the need for labor-intensive and expensive preparatory work.

Advice: Before deciding to use the old floor as a basis, make sure that it is able to withstand serious loads. Damaged and not sufficiently strong gender can not be. It must be dismantled.

Operation of work when installing the floorboard on the old coating:

1. Align the old floor. Carefully polish it. Use the ribbon machine. The grain of the abrasive belt is 40 or 60.
2. The entire surface of the floor will unleash the moisture-protective film made of foam foam. This stage is not mandatory. We are confident in the thermal insulation and moisture protection properties of the old floor - skip it.
3. Stop new flooring is recommended perpendicular to the old coating floorboards. If this is unacceptable - be sure to check the floor with plywood sheets. Sheet thickness from 12 mm. Collect Faneru. Use the ribbon machine. Remove all dust and dirt from the surface.
4. Place the floorboard. Try to dock them very tightly. It is recommended to use wedges. On the perimeter of the room, leave the gap between the floor coating and the walls of 10 mm wide.
5. Fasten the boards to the base by means of screws, withstanding a step of 250 mm. Marking and drill holes under the sabotage needed in advance. To improve the aesthetic type of flooring, the sphele of a 10 mm boards is completely intermedible. The holes are masked by special corks made from the same type of wood.
6. In the event that the floorboard laying is made on the base of plywood, and not on the moisture protective film, glue the plaques to the base glue. The use of glue will improve the coating clutch with the base. It is still necessary to use the screws. One glue is not enough.

But if the old floor still had to dismantle, the process becomes more complex and time consuming. This is due to the abundance of preparatory work.

The order of work when installing the genital boards on the concrete base is as follows:

1. Determine the moisture level of a concrete screed. Take advantage of any of two options:

Option number one:

• take the polyethylene film. Film size 1x1 m;
• get it onto a concrete screed tape;
• leave for a day;
• remove the film. If you find on the concrete under the film wet spot - the base is too wet. Do not rush with the installation of boards, wait for drying.

Option number two:

• take the rug from rubber;
• make it on a concrete basis;
• press the brick;
• leave for 24 hours;
• raise the rug. If you find a wet stain under it - do not hurry with the laying of boards.

Advice: Carefully consider the dark concrete. It is difficult to notice a wet stain on it.

2. When the concrete base is finally dried, proceed to laying boards. The order of their installation is similar to the option of laying on the old coating. The difference is instead of old boards or plywood bases, new boards are laid directly on the concrete base.

The order of work when installing the genital boards on the base of plywood:

1. Take plywood sheets, preferably moisture-proof. Take advantage of plywood from 18 mm thick.
2. Cut the sheet to the strip along the narrow side. Strip widths withstand around half a standard.
3. Lay out the segments of plywood on concrete diagonally to the intended direction of the boards. The distance between the adjacent plywood stripes is 3 mm. The distance from the sheet to the wall is -1 cm.
4. Fix plywood sheets with screws or dowels. On 1 m2 should have about 15 fasteners. Sculpted heads of plywood in no less than 4 mm.
5. A variant of fixing plywood with glue is possible. Pay special attention to the compatibility of glue and heat shielding concrete base.
6. Carefully polish the surface of plywood. Take advantage of a special grinding machine. Abrasive tape grain 40-60.
7. Clean the surface of the plywood coating from dust.
8. Further work on the installation of the board is similar to the installation on the old coating.

Installation of floorboard on lags

This method is much easier and more convenient than a parquet method.

Lags are wooden bars. Move from wood, the humidity of which does not exceed 12%. The section size ranges from 55x70 to 55x100 mm.

The procedure for installing floor boards on lags is as follows:

• Prepare lags. Treat them with an antiseptic and a special solution to protect against parasites.
• Put the layer of vaporizolation. It may be an ordinary polyethylene film, foil polyethylene or foam. Place the coating with an overlap about 20 mm.
• Lagged on the basis. The distance between adjacent lags in the direction of the future coating is 500 mm, along the axis - up to 300 mm.

Advice: The best direction of lags is perpendicular to the sunshine from the windows. Then the mounted floor will look perfect.

• Attach lags to the base with screws. Screwing heads should be peaked in wood no less than 4 mm.
• Another option fastener is to glue lags using adhesive or bitumen mastic. The advantage of such a fastener is no danger to damage the communications inside the inter-storey floors.

Advice: Pay special attention to the compatibility of glue and moisture-proof mastic, which is processed by the base.

• Align the lags. Be sure to use the level. From excess wood, get rid of the plane. In places where laugs will be lower than the general level, put wooden chips.
• Crerate logags with each other with wooden bars and galvanized corners with a size of 40x40x40 mm. It will strengthen and strengthen the design.
• Load the insulation of emptiness formed under lags.
• Place the boards on the lags. Get the most dense docking. If necessary, use wedges.
• The length of the first board should be no less than the width of the room. Place it crest to the wall. The gap between the board and the comb is at least 10 mm. The first board must always align exactly perpendicular to the room.
• To use the mounting boards with screws. Their length shall be not less than 2 times the thickness of the board.
• Attach the first board next to the ridge so that the heads of the screws are closed by plinths.
• In the subsequent boards, place the screws above each lag at an angle of 45 degrees.

Advice: Holes for self-tapping screws is better drilled in advance, before laying the boards on the lags.

• Use metal brackets to stick the boobs. They are clogged into wedges and lags. Two location options are possible:
  • to pinch and roll to the lag each board. The method is very effective, but very laborious. It is used for carefully dried boards adapted to the room;
  • to pinch and mount each fourth board. Faster way. In three intermediate rows, you can use short boards. But the fourth board must be long.
• The last board in the row has a non-standard size. Cut it with a circular saw. It should remain a gap between the geepboard and the wall of at least 10 mm.

Final processing

Mounted by any of the following methods floor must be pulled. The main goal of grinding is to eliminate the installation defects. Before starting grinding, check whether the screws are recessed enough in the wood. Drinking from the board Self-discovered can damage not only the coating, but also the grinding machine.

Use special ribbons or cars for grinding parquet. After completing grinding, thoroughly clean the surface of the floor from dust. Apply several layers of varnish on the prepared floor. The first is applied protective varnish, after drying it - decorative.