Causes of an unpleasant
parquet squeak A constant squeak can lead to the most balanced person, so you should understand the causes of its appearance and eliminate them. The main reasons may be:
- uneven base;
- loose fit of sheets of plywood or fiberboard to the cement base;
- incorrect stacking technology;
- detaches the parquet from the base;
- no technical clearances;
- incorrect choice of substrate and the most parquet board;
- indoor humidity.
The following recommendations will tell you how to get rid of parquet scratches, and also help prevent its appearance. If the base is bad or uneven, this will subsequently lead to flaking of the board and its destruction. Such a coating laid on the base without intermediate layers, such as plywood or chipboard, will eventually hang and peel off. That's why the parquet floor creaks in this case.
Eliminate the scratch of the parquet by repairing the screed
Before removing the scratching of the parquet, associated with the unevenness of the base, it is first necessary to completely remove the cover. After dismantling, the condition of the cement base should be assessed. If the coating in the cracks or begins to break down, then before the plywood flooring you need to make a cement screed or use a self-leveling mixture.
The unevenness of the screed should not exceed one or two millimeters per meter of surface, otherwise the parquet will begin to creak and collapse. If the reason for the squeak of the whole floor is related to the loose fit of the plywood to the base, it is also necessary to fill the screed again.
If the scratches are local, then the removal of the scratches of the parquet is carried out as follows: it is necessary to remove several boards, find the problem area, drill a hole in this sheet of plywood and fill it with cement mortar. This will give the sheet of plywood and fiberboard additional support. You should remove the scratch when you first appear, otherwise it will lead to the destruction of the board in the future.
We are looking for problems in the design of the
parquet. Scratch often can be caused by the bad geometry of the parquet board and the non-observance of the technology of its installation. To avoid this, when choosing a board, you should pay attention to the quality of its lock system. When assembling, each fitted row should be wedged. The optimum clearance between the boards and the wall should be approximately 10 mm.
There is a high probability that a scratch occurs due to an incorrect location of the logs or their defectiveness. Before removing the scratch of the parquet, associated with this problem, it is necessary to completely remove the coating and check the integrity of the logs.
If you do not need to change them, then you should check the distance between them. The step between the lags should be about 30 cm. Also, with the help of a construction level or a flat strip it is worth making sure that the whole system of the log is in the same plane. To strengthen the rigidity of the log, you can pull it to the base with dowels.
If all the rules and regulations are observed during the installation of the parquet flooring, there is still the possibility of the creaking underfoot. Maintaining an optimum moisture regime in the room is a very important part of the proper operation of the parquet floor.
By giving or absorbing moisture, the tree has the property of narrowing or widening, respectively, which can lead to the appearance of a squeak. The optimum humidity in the room should be 50%.You can not wash such a floor with a wet and uncompressed rag, because the moisture is absorbed by the locks of the parquet board, and there are mounds on all the floor.