Natural parquet is an eco-friendly and completely harmless coating made of real wood with a lot of positive qualities. It is warm, looks gorgeous in the interior, perfectly absorbs sounds, has several options. It is best to invite specialists to lay this material, but many decide to do this work themselves, trying to save a little money. We offer you a small instruction that will help you to sort out the question of how to put a piece of parquet on a prepared floor.
How to lay parquet?
- The base of the floor can be different - wooden, concrete, in the form of a cement-sand screed.
- We remove the old parquet, remove the garbage, level the rough floor.
- It is best to put the material not on the screed, but on a prepared base of plywood sheets with a thickness of up to 15 mm.
- We cut the saw blade into squares of the chosen size. It is most convenient to cut plywood for rectangular elements with a size of 60x60 cm. In this case, you will need a number of expansion joints that will prevent possible deformations from thermal or moisture expansion.
- Lining is attached to the adhesive and screws, utaplivaya hats fasteners for 3 mm. We leave from the wall and between the dies technological gaps of 1-1.2 cm.
- In the question of how to lay a parquet, a perfectly smooth base plays a very important role. Use the level to find defects and mark them with a pencil.
- We produce a plywood cyclone with a parquet grinding machine.
- The check showed that the irregularities were removed.
- Preliminarily clean the surface of a small machine near the threshold and in the corners of the room.
- Preparation of the base is complete, we transfer the material to the room.
- In the question of how to correctly lay parquet on the floor, the choice of glue also plays a huge role. We take a 2-component solution, which has a time limit of 30-50 minutes after applying the solution to the substrate. For this period, the master must complete the laying on the treated floor surface.
- On the plywood and the dies, apply glue with a notched trowel.
- The process of laying the parquet is made by different methods - herringbone, squares, deck method, braid, rhombuses, stars. It is desirable to make markings on the floor, so as not to make mistakes while working.
- The first dies should be greased with glue and fixed with a pneumatic gun, nailing them with nails at an angle in the spike to the plywood.
- Similarly, the second and the remaining series are formed.
- Be sure to leave the wall gaps.
- Pneumatic and adhesive will provide us with a quality mix of dies.
- We recruit completely parquet floor according to the marked markings.
- With the task of laying parquet, we coped well.
- After curing the glue, grinding is necessary.
- In the end, the parquet is covered with stain and varnish in several layers.
- Only now, when all operations on coating processing are completed, you can use beautiful, high-quality and durable parquet flooring.
