5 notes before laying wooden floors for apartments

Using wooden floors for flooring is a trend as well as a hobby of many households today, because of the practical features and benefits of wood flooring. However, in order for your wooden floor to be durable and beautiful, you need the following notes before lining the wooden floor for your apartment.

Installing wooden floors for apartments brings many benefits, the first is the luxurious aesthetic beauty of natural, diverse and rich wood grain colors. The natural feeling is what you feel when you finish laying the wooden floor, as well as bringing a feeling of coolness in the summer, warmth in the winter, bringing many health benefits, especially for the elderly. and children. See more: Tips for choosing apartment wooden floors

However, in order for natural wood floors or laminate floors to promote all their benefits as well as maintain durability and aesthetics, you need to note the following 5 things before lining a wooden floor for a shared apartment. his residence, townhouse.

1) The floor before installation must be flat and dry
Whether it is a natural wood floor or an industrial wood floor, it is constructed in the form of floating construction on the floor. That is, wooden floors are installed, connected with each other by means of a key, do not use glue for laminate floors, use glue for natural wood floors, do not stick or fix on your floor. Therefore, the surface of your wooden floor is flat or not, whether it will be concave, flattened or not will be decided by the foundation of your house.

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Therefore, before installing wooden floors, you must make sure that the surface of your floor is flat, not rough or convex. If such phenomena are present, you must treat them before installation to ensure that the floor is eligible for installation.

Next, wooden floors, whether natural or industrial, are very resistant to moisture and water. Moisture, flooding all cause wood floors to encounter problems such as expansion, warping or damage, peeling (for laminate flooring). Therefore, before installation, you must make sure that the foundation of your house must be dry and not wet or stagnant. There are many cases of apartment buildings because of the urgent need to install on the wet concrete foundation, leading to damage right after the installation is complete.

Normally, at present, the apartment foundation is handed over to two types: concrete floor and tiled floor. With these two forms, the tiled floor will be better because of better insulation, but you should check carefully because some apartments and projects have tiled floors, but there is a possibility of blistering and blistering that will affect the floor surface. wood later.

Therefore, CQ recommends that you: Carefully check the surface of the foundation for the flatness, moisture, and depth to ensure the best installed wooden floor.

2). Wood paving leaves the edge of the wall about 10mm - 15mm, and limits the opening of the room
Due to the characteristics of moisture absorption and expansion, in order to minimize warping and expansion, you should ask the construction team to leave a gap between 10mm - 15mm compared to the edge of the wall, to ensure no damage. space for the wood to expand. Depending on the characteristics of each type of wood floor, depending on the thickness of the wall wool to subtract the appropriate gap.

With natural wood floors, mainly up to 95% of wooden floors will expand according to the width of the plank, so according to the width of the plank you have to subtract the wall distance from 10mm - 15mm, and according to the length you may not need the gap. big like that.

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With laminate flooring, expansion and warping rarely occur, so subtracting large gaps is not a mandatory requirement, but it is best to leave it open to ensure minimal damage due to expansion.

Next, you should limit the paving of the room. Paving the room means that you cover the wooden floor from room to room without a circuit break. For example, your apartment building has 1 living room and 2 bedrooms, you put wooden floors from the living room and chased into 2 bedrooms. The pine wood flooring in the room will give a sense of seamlessness in terms of viewing angle, higher aesthetics, but in return for a larger expansion of the wooden floor. With a larger piece of laminate flooring, the higher expansion leads to a higher flexing capacity. Therefore, the small break into each room, each array will limit the effect of expansion.

3). Install wooden floors only after finishing the paintwork, doors and electric lights.
Usually, wooden floors are usually installed almost last, just before the apartment furniture item. You should tile the wooden floor after you have fully installed the door, after painting, painting, pasting the wall paper, installing electricity and plastering.

The final installation of wooden floors will minimize damage and scratches caused by scratches and pulls of other items.

4). Choosing the right wood floor foam
Currently, there are mainly 3 types of foam for wood flooring: white foam (usually for industrial wood floors), 3mm silver foam, young rubber foam. Depending on the location of the wood floor installation, your budget to choose the appropriate foam. For example, if you install laminate flooring for the ground floor or the kitchen, you should choose foam that is young rubber or 3mm silver-coated foam or high-class Japanese foam Sekisui.

The prices of these foams in the current market are as follows: White foam costs 5,000 VND – 8,000 VND/m2, 3mm silver foam is about 15,000 VND/m2, young rubber is 30,000 VND/m2. As for the high-end Sekisui, there are 2 lines, 3mm Standard with