WHAT IS PARQUET FLOORING?

If you would like to learn more about parquet floors you're most likely considering replacing your current floor with some thing more eye-catching, original and vibrant. Yes, that will be the perfect choice but let me present this gorgeous kind of hardwood floors.

Origin Of Parquet Flooring

Parquet appears, such as many other fantastic items and thoughts from XVII century France. Most popular among the wealthiest Frenchmen and Royal family marble slabs were rather hard to maintain and continuous washing lead into the rotting of their joints under the marble flooring. In 1684 new type of parquet was utilized in Royal château in Versaille, but today that name is associated with floors panels (blocks).

Construction and Manufacture

Most common species used in manufacture of parquet floors are: oak, walnut, maple, cherry but sometimes mahogany and other exotic hardwoods may be utilised in production of costlier parquets.

Apart from the wood species used in creating the parquet you also need to choose whether you need solid or engineered parquet flooring. First one is constructed of solid pieces of wood, the latter from the layers of timber together with the hardwood veneer at the very top. Whether you pick engineered or solid there is no difference in the last appearance of fitted parquet flooring.

Parquet flooring is different than wood flooring where wood planks, usually wider that 10cm and more that 1m are utilized. Parquet uses smaller pieces of wood arranged in much more attractive and ornamental geometric and regular shapes and patterns such as hottest herringbone but additionally chevron, chequerboard or basket wave.

Setup Of Parquet Flooring

When it comes to installation of the parquet floors Floor Sanding Teddington recommend using professional fitters but for those highly skilled DIY guys or people who think in their own dexterity we've got bunch of useful do's and performn'ts:

- don't use nails, instead use high quality parquet flexible adhesive (recall that all purpose adhesive won't be powerful enough),

- on concrete slab It's the very best to include a layer of polyethylene film

- cut wood pieces with handsaw or round saw and attempt to prevent the injury by clamping them into the work table.

Mainteance

And the past: most people (and our wives) enjoy it the most - maintenance.

Like other hardwood flooring kinds, parquet flooring are low maintenance products. You should vacuum surface lightly 2-3 times a week as ongoing maintenance or just simply use the broom whatever is more convenient. Moping the parquet flooring at least once every week is also highly recommended - mop will pick up all the dirt that you simply vacuum (or broom) left behind. Our site includes committed FAQ section where you can read more about maintaining lacquered and Engineered flooring .