Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To Remember Before Installing

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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
Remember Before Installing
Today, the houses, offices and buildings all over
the world prefer advanced, stylish ways of
flooring. And hardwood floors are one of the most
desirable forms of flooring preferred by many.
But, there are certain point s to keep in mind
before one goes ahead with the idea.
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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Basic requisites to be fulfilled before
installation - subfloors The first thing needed
before hardwood floor installation is a proper
sub-floor to secure the hardwood flooring to.
This is necessary to protect the newly installed
wooden floor from moisture and to make the area
to be installed an even surface. The subfloor can
be a properly prepared concrete floor or slab, a
conventional raised plywood subfloor or a floor
joist/battens. They also can be pre-existing
floors with a layer of insulation provided
against moisture.
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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Deciding on the type of hardwood to be laid
Solid wood or Engineered wood Well, before
choosing whether to choose solid wood or
engineered wood, it is necessary to find out the
level of humidity present in the area where the
floor has to be installed. If the area has a lot
of moisture, solid wood floor should be certainly
avoided. One can still install wooden floors, but
an engineered wooden floor is a better option as
they hold up relatively low levels of moisture
without being damaged.
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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Engineered wood flooring is less expensive and
easier to install, but the best part is that they
come pre-finished. A floor of engineered wood is
much stable than a floor of solid wood as it is
made up of layers of wood sandwiched and bonded
together. Solid wood floors have a tendency to
expand and contract with changes in temperature
and humidity, whereas engineered wood is more
resistant to such changes.
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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For areas like kitchen and bathrooms, where
spills are most common, Laminate flooring is best
suited. Such floors have an appearance or finish
of wood, but the underlying plies beneath the
surface are made up of Melamin resin or
Fibreboard. Laminate flooring is gaining immense
popularity, chiefly because it is easy to install
and also to maintain.
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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Adopting techniques for hardwood floor
installation The three common methods of
hardwood floor installation are A) Floating
installation B) Glue down installation C) Nail
down installation
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Hardwood Floor Installation - Basic Facts To
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Now, how does one know which type of installation
needs to be adopted? There are two things to
consider before doing this the type of subfloor
available and the type of flooring material used.
The floating installation technique is the
easiest and used where the flooring material is
engineered wood. The glue down method is perfect
if you want solid wood floor, irrespective of
whether the subfloor available is a concreted
one, one made of plywood or is joisted. This type
of installation is also used for engineered wood,
if the subfloor is either of concrete or ply.
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The nail down method is usually used for laying
solid wood floors over concreted or plywooded
subfloors.
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