What does it take to properly lay a wooden floor?
In order to begin work on laying a wooden floor, you need to prepare a number of tools and materials:
- Wooden boards.
- Bar.
- A set of carpentry tools.
- Nails.
- Nailers.
How to lay the wooden floor: the action plan
The work on laying a wooden floor consists of several step-by-step measures:
- Selection of material for laying the floor.
- Preparation of the surface before laying.
- Litter of lags.
- Laying boards.
- Final work.
Instruction: how to properly lay wooden floors
Step 1: the right tree for laying the floor
There are two blocks of aspects that must be taken into account when choosing flooring boards. These aspects are the choice of wood and the characteristics of the boards when buying.
Selection of wood. There are a large number of types of wood material that can be used when installing a floor covering. These materials can be: ash, oak, larch, beech, pine, spruce. Each type of wood has specific properties of operation and appearance. Most often for this type of work is used wood of coniferous trees. It is cheaper, easy to operate and durable.
Step 2: prepare the floor before laying the wooden floor
The flooring can be installed in a private house or in an apartment building. When working in a private house, the surface on which the styling will be done can be simply land. Therefore, before laying, it is necessary to remove the top layer( in order to avoid germination of the grass) and fill it with dry soil. Next, you need to compact a small layer of rubble. Above the rubble it is necessary to put a layer of gravel. If the installation takes place in an apartment building, then it is sufficient to install the screed.
Step 3: Logs under the wooden floor
Before laying the log, it is necessary to bring it into the room and allow them to adapt to the temperature regime for several hours. Then the opposite walls are laid along one lag with a gap of about 80 mm from the wall. Then nylon threads are stretched, which will serve as a guide for laying other logs. Then it is necessary to lay logs along the planned structure, observing the distance between them in 70-100 centimeters.
Step 4: Laying the edging board on the floor
The boards are laid tightly on the logs with annual layers so that the gap is no more than 1 mm. Fastened boards with nails long 100-125 mm. Drive nails better at a small angle.
Step 5: Final touches of a good wooden floor in the house or at the dacha
The gap between the edge boards and the wall should be about two centimeters. This distance should provide ventilation space under the boards. The gap is closed using skirting boards or fillets.
For more visibility of the process, read the video.
At what price the wooden floor
will pour. The price of a wooden floor covering consists of two main points: the wood species and the quality of the lumber, but they, in turn, depend on the purpose of the room. The fact is that for a country cottage or a garden house, a garage or technical premises, there is no sense in making expensive parquet - it is enough to lay an available pine board( smooth edging material will cost from 5 thousand rubles per cubic meter).Plus lags from a bar of any breed, the main thing - that it was dry( for the floor to lead, it is not necessary even in technical premises).
For a residential building, new buildings, it is optimal to choose a board with a thickness of 5 cm, ideally - a hardwood( for example, an oak will cost over 30 thousand rubles per cubic meter).Plus lags and consumables from a similar tree, as well as insulation is mandatory.
Thus, the article described and described the process of installing a wooden floor covering inside a dwelling.
