More and more people are showing interest in parquet flooring. And for good reason; It looks very nice, the wood flooring is environmentally friendly. But today, many are trying to save money, sometimes where this is not possible. You can not put parquet cheaply. Why? Let's figure it out in order.

Parquet board

In our technological age, wood - as a building material - is expensive. Considering the fact that the parquet board is made of special high-strength varieties of wood, it makes it expensive. Not the last role is played by advertising and fashion.

If we compare the parquet with the laminate, then the first has much more advantages: it is maintainability, moisture resistance, resistance to mechanical, chemical and temperature damage.

Installation work

The high price of installation work is associated with the fact that when laying parquet, additional preparatory work is required, as well as after its installation. Now there are a lot of homegrown "professionals" who will take it to put it in half the price.

This is due to the fact that when laying a laminate, they think that with parquet the same. But here lies the whole catch, laying parquet flooring, requires certain rules that are fundamentally different from laying laminate.

These rules apply to preparatory work and after installation. Not knowing the rules, such "specialists" doom you to a minimum of additional costs associated with their own deficiencies, and this is in the best case. At worst, you have to repair the flooring, at worst, change it completely.

By the way, one of the main features of the parquet coating is that it must be laid on glue. Laminate, on the contrary, spread without glue.

Work before laying

No wonder it says: everything is known in comparison. We will compare with the laminate. Both coatings require a flat surface, but unlike a laminate, parquet boards require two days to lie in the very room where it will lie. This is due to the fact that the parquet should be saturated with the humidity of the air in the room. Neglect of this rule leads to increased wear. This seemingly “unnecessary” procedure is often neglected not only by beginners, but also by professionals. Experts also recommend pre-sheathing the surface of the floor with plywood.

Work after laying

Having laid the flooring, it is necessary to process the joints between the lamellas, and treat the surface of the boards with additional layers of resins and wood impregnation. This increases the resistance of the material to mechanical and other damage to the coating. After, thorough drying is required. With a laminate this is not required, with parquet, prerequisites.