How to lay a parquet board?

Any even the most expensive and stylish cover is easily spoiled during installation, allowing miscalculations and errors in repair work. In the case, how correctly to put in an apartment a parquet board on glue or on system "a thorn-groove", also it is a lot of unknown nuances unknown to beginners. But in fact so it would be desirable to save a little, not causing to help construction brigades. That's why this instruction on laying this popular cover is exactly right for you.

How to lay a parquet board:

  1. Clean the substrate with a plastic wrap.
  2. It is advisable to make an allowance for walls within 10 cm, and overlap overlap (up to 30 cm).
  3. As a backing layer, foam polyethylene or cork is suitable.
  4. We put the material of the substrate selected by you from above on the film.
  5. Such work should not start from the center of the room, but from its corners, choosing the longest wall. We leave gaps near the heating pipe, the column, the adjoining wall and the rest of the building structure. Their size is regulated with wedges up to 10 mm thick. Otherwise, the parquet made of natural material will not be able to expand normally and is deformed.
  6. Naturally, in the question of how to put a parquet board in the room with your own hands, you can not do without fitting the material along the length. We will have to make measurements and pruning, starting from the first row.
  7. We set the cut piece of the board into place.
  8. With a good fit of joints almost invisible.
  9. It is advisable to lay the next row of parquet not from the whole board, but using the remaining material from the first row, so we get a chess order that will ensure a higher strength of the floor. But consider that this segment should not be less than 0.5 m.
  10. In our case, the piling is done using the "spike-groove" technology. We start the board at a small angle.
  11. We lower it down and try to make sure that it snaps securely.
  12. In the vicinity of the threshold, we cut the plinth .
  13. It is desirable to purchase a metal bar, which protects the parquet and closes the joints (floor treads).
  14. It is most reliable to fasten it to a dowel, but it is necessary to drill a concrete covering.
  15. In the problem areas, the joints should be greased with glue.
  16. We trim the parquet board with a hammer, and it becomes in place.
  17. Now we set the floor threshold from metal.
  18. To the walls we fasten the holders for the skirting boards.
  19. We install skirting boards.
  20. Cut off excess film if it protrudes outside the wall.
  21. The repair work is finished. We hope that our instruction on how to lay a parquet board is accessible and will help you get a stylish flooring in the house.