How to choose flooring

Companies trading in the markets of wood flooring such as wood block flooring and Parquet, are themselves often come up with product names that we believe is wrong. By itself, any coating, containing a layer of valuable species of wood or 30% consisting of wood, to be called a wooden surface or a wooden floor in the English version-wood floor. As such, the definition for the wooden cover can be anything, parquet, wood block flooring, veneer wooden floor, piece or a classic parquet.

It would be a bit of a classification of types of parquet and wooden floors:

1. Parquet - general term for wooden surfaces, in our view, any wooden surface is arranged in the interior and ready for use may be called a parquet floor.

2. Parquet board - definition devised for wooden counterparts laminate domestic trading companies. By itself, the phrase - "parquet flooring" nothing indicates this as the phrase-die parquet or board of wood, absolutely not reflecting the technical and operational properties of the material. "House flooring is more expensive, but in exactly the same material - the economy class, as well as the usual" plastic laminate, the material is placed on the polyurethane foam substrate, while nothing is fixed to the base, and each "parquet flooring" connected by fastening glue or "click system" with each other. These coatings can not be repaired surface repair is performed only by replacing the damaged boards.

3. Parquet (classical parquet) - parquet supplied by individual dies. Method of installation - a classic. Parquet kleetsya tightly to the base, the base for the parquet must be perfectly smooth and can be of any type (plywood, cement, concrete, etc.). Then, depending on the type of flooring, made his finishing, or if you are using pre-finished parquet, this treatment is not required.

4. Special thanks to the "finished parquet, parquet this is usually already fully ready for operation, it only need to correctly put in strict compliance with all technological requirements. Ready Parquet is of 2 types: solid wood parquet, varnished and the so-called 2-layer parquet, consisting of a layer of wood from 3 to 5 mm and the basis of special plywood.