Wood flooring
If you’re like most Americans, you probably are thinking that story would be as part of its refurbishment, rather than vinyl flooring, carpet or stone or ceramic. Wood flooring is made of hardwood such as oak or black walnut, pine or spruce or hard. This type of flooring can be installed professionally, either through the wooden floor services or the do-it-yourselfer willing to take a little extra time.
Hardwood comes in two basic forms. It is finished, and once installed in the home is sanded then finished on site by the color and / or adding a layer of durable finish. In more recent times, is pre-finished in a factory, and comes with a polyurethane finish that has added aluminum oxide, although some companies prefer to use titanium dioxide or some other oxides instead. These metal oxide finishes increase the wear a hardwood floor can handle.
Solid wood boards are usually sold in 3 / 4 inch or 19 mm thick, although some are in tables that are 3 / 8 inches (10 mm) or 5 / 16 inch (8mm) thick. This type of wood flooring can be installed using a nail down installation method over a wooden sub floor. One drawback is that, although very popular, this type of wood is also very susceptible to the effects of humidity and temperature. Hardwoods like oak expand and contract due to moisture and temperature changes, expanding and contracting just the width of the grain. Most experts recommend that this particular type of hardwood flooring is not installed on a concrete slab, unless authorized for that purpose by the manufacturer. There are some cases in solid wood that is 3 / 8 “thick can be installed on a concrete slab, but the recommendations of the product should be consulted before attempting it.
Instead of having a single piece of hardwood, lacquered wood is produced by compiling the layers of wood veneers to create a finish that may vary in thickness from 3 / 8 inch or 8 mm to 9 / 16 inch or 14 mm thick. The wood veneer on top thickness varies depending on the specifications and the process used by the manufacturer. The three basic processes for the manufacture of sheets of skin are rotating (This production process tends to have problems with the veneer of cupping and curling back to its original form. Commonly known as “face control” and is a manufacturing defect, often giving these hardwoods designed a wood appearance in the grain), sliced skin (this type of engineered wood tends to have fewer problems with “face control” but does not have the same plywood appearance in the grain. Unfortunately, this type of pre-finished product may tend to take advantage chips and cracks due to the fact that the strips of veneer have been submerged in water and then pressed flat in the process of stratification ), and finally dry solid-sawn (the top layer of veneer is obtained in a similar way as a solid wood table is m place. This type of prefinished floor has the same appearance as solid wood, and are not of the possibility of “face control” that the rotating cutting and skin products to make is, since it is not exposed to moisture added to obtain one).
To create a pre-finished wood, wood veneer sheets are stacked on top of each other so that the wood grain in each layer perpendicular faces. Once the desired thickness, the boards are cut to the correct board width. In the next step in the process, the boards are cut to have a tongue or groove on the edges. The last step is to add dye to the board if necessary, and add a finish, making it less susceptible to the effects of humidity and temperature changes. Because wood expands and contracts along the width of the fiber direction, prefinished hardwood is said to be dimensionally stable. Solid wood boards do not have this kind of dimensional stability, since all grains in the Executive Board in the same direction. As a result of dimensional stability properties, lacquered wooden floors can be glued directly to concrete, as opposed to solid hardwood which can not.
Now that you have a few more facts about the types of hardwood floors, it is best that you can determine which type is best suited for your particular needs. You can see samples of both types of hardware store either locally or from her flat, where they can also get help and instructions on how to do it if you want to install it.
