Laying wood flooring is better floating or glued?

We find according to our needs, which pose apply at home, our wood floor between the floating and the pasted.

The floating is a particular method of laying the wooden floor, which allows any reuse of the strips in other environments, as it does not foresee the use of glue for fixing; the strips of wood are in fact stuck with a classic combination of "male-female".

Among the advantages of this frame, plus the ability to retrieve the strips for a future of our parquet floor in another room, it appreciates the speed of assembly, that does not suffer from the long weeks of waiting for the drying of the glue; precisely for This float is normally applied to engineered floors.

Laying with glue is better suited for the classic parquet solid wood, on a very dry and level you pass a layer of glue where the strips back then, the glue can be used for polyurethane-based or water-based, This type of installation provides a compact effect of our wooden floor, with no gaps, among the disadvantages found to be sensitive to moisture.

In short between the two types of installation there is no big difference, but there are some cases in which you are obliged to put the floating floor: If you want to pose as if: this is because the floating installation is very simple if you have a minimum of manual dexterity.

If you want to save or preserve the existing floor.

If the screed is not sufficiently dry or there are high risks of infiltration: in this case, the floating floor is much more appropriate given that just put between the floors and the floor above, a mat anti-wet, with a barrier that avoids that the 'moisture rises from the floor prior to the wooden floor.

Here you can find more information about which pose to choose for your flooring.

 

10/10/2011

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