The timeless beauty of traditional Parquet flooring never ages or go's out of fashion.
It's unique beauty and versatility means it can come in many different styles and colours.
When installing original parquet flooring the first thing you need to check is the moisture of the sub -floor base, this has to be below 5%.
The second thing is parquet flooring likes to be laid on a level surfaces the, the more the floor level is out the more chance you are going to have of gaps when laying.
Now on to gluing the parquet flooring down use either a bicthem based glue like f21 or a more modern glue like sika which is a (ms polymer), Preferably the second but both are acceptable.
Generally fitters tend to use bitchem on old floors as this can react with the existing old bitching that is already down and of course the price of a ms polymer which is three times the price.
Both will do same job for example them old floors which have been down a long while they all used bitchem in them days and there forty fifty years old.
When glueing down the block its nice to try and make sure there is no gaps, but gaps or not the end of the world as the whole floor will be filled with a filler which consists of resin and sawdust from you floor once sanded.
Once flooring is laid sand floor in a 50-60 grit for new blocks and a lower grit 0f 18- 36 grit for relaimed floors.
Then mix the saw dust with resin and fill the whole floor twice.
Then sand the whole floor again and again and again going up the grits each time.
Then finishing on a 120 grit all over.
clean the room and floor making sure all dust is up.
tack the floor with a tack cloth make sure all dust is up.
Then roll on a primer wait a few hours to dry then roll on a laquer leave over night to dry and cure.
Finally scrim the floor in a fine grit sand paper or screen, clean properly and tack again, then apply the final coat of laquer.
You can apply more coats the more coats you apply the longer the finish should last and the more depth and the finer the finish up to 7 coats.
For more info pleasec check out are website www.
parquetflooringandcarpentry.
co.
uk
It's unique beauty and versatility means it can come in many different styles and colours.
When installing original parquet flooring the first thing you need to check is the moisture of the sub -floor base, this has to be below 5%.
The second thing is parquet flooring likes to be laid on a level surfaces the, the more the floor level is out the more chance you are going to have of gaps when laying.
Now on to gluing the parquet flooring down use either a bicthem based glue like f21 or a more modern glue like sika which is a (ms polymer), Preferably the second but both are acceptable.
Generally fitters tend to use bitchem on old floors as this can react with the existing old bitching that is already down and of course the price of a ms polymer which is three times the price.
Both will do same job for example them old floors which have been down a long while they all used bitchem in them days and there forty fifty years old.
When glueing down the block its nice to try and make sure there is no gaps, but gaps or not the end of the world as the whole floor will be filled with a filler which consists of resin and sawdust from you floor once sanded.
Once flooring is laid sand floor in a 50-60 grit for new blocks and a lower grit 0f 18- 36 grit for relaimed floors.
Then mix the saw dust with resin and fill the whole floor twice.
Then sand the whole floor again and again and again going up the grits each time.
Then finishing on a 120 grit all over.
clean the room and floor making sure all dust is up.
tack the floor with a tack cloth make sure all dust is up.
Then roll on a primer wait a few hours to dry then roll on a laquer leave over night to dry and cure.
Finally scrim the floor in a fine grit sand paper or screen, clean properly and tack again, then apply the final coat of laquer.
You can apply more coats the more coats you apply the longer the finish should last and the more depth and the finer the finish up to 7 coats.
For more info pleasec check out are website www.
parquetflooringandcarpentry.
co.
uk
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