How to lay a wooden floor

What you need to properly lay a wooden floor?

In order to begin work on laying a wooden floor, it is necessary to prepare a number of tools and materials:

• Wooden boards.
• Bruce.
• set of carpentry tools.
• Nails.
• Naildrawers.

How to lay a wooden floor:

Action Plan Work on laying of wooden floor consists of a number of incremental activities:

• choice of material for laying the floor.
• Surface preparation prior to laying.
• the coverings lags.
• laying planks.
• exits.

Guide: how to lay wooden flooring

Step 1: the right tree for installing the floor

There are two sets of issues that need to be considered when choosing a board for laying the floor.These aspects are the choice of wood and the characteristics of the boards for the purchase.

Choosing wood.There are many types of wood material which may be used when installing a floor covering.These materials may be: ash, oak, larch, beech, pine, spruce.Each type has specific properties of wood operation and appearance.Most often this type of work used the wood of coniferous trees.It is cheaper, easy to use and durable.

Step 2: prepare the floor before laying the wooden floor

Installation of flooring can be done in a private home or in an apartment.When working in a private home, the surface on which the installation will be carried out, can serve as a ground.Therefore, before installation, is necessary to remove the top layer (to avoid grass germination) and fill dry soil.Next, you need to get a small layer of compacted gravel.On top of rubble need to put a layer of gravel.If stacking is carried out in an apartment building, it is enough to make installation of the screed.

Step 3: wooden floor joists under

necessary to enter the premises and give them to adapt to the temperature conditions for several hours before laying lags.Then, at the opposite wall are stacked one lag with a gap of about 80 mm from the wall.Next, stretch nylon thread, which will serve as a guide when installing other lag.Then the logs should be laid on the planned structure, keeping the distance between them is 70-100 centimeters.

Step 4: laying edging board on the floor

boards stacked tightly on the joists annual layers in such a way that the gap is less than 1 mm.Fasten boards with nails length of 100-125 mm.Better to drive in nails at a slight angle.

Step 5: The final touches of good wood floor at home, or on the giving

gap between the end boards and the wall should be about two centimeters.This distance must ensure that the ventilation of the space under the boards.The gap is closed by plinths or fillets.

For clarity, process check out the video.

At what price will result wooden floors

Price wooden floor consists of two main factors: the quality of wood and lumber, but they, in turn, depends on the destination premises.The fact is that for a holiday or a garden shed, garage or technical premises does not make sense to do an expensive parquet - enough to lay the available pine board (smooth-edged material cost in the amount of 5 thousand rubles per cubic meter).Plus logs of timber of any breed, the main thing - that it is dry (to the floor led, it is not necessary even in tehpomescheniyah).

for residential building, new buildings will optimally choose a board with a thickness of 5 cm, perfect - hardwood (eg oak will cost more than 30 thousand rubles per cubic meter).Plus lags and supplies from the same tree, as well as insulation without fail.

Thus, the article has been described and characterized the process of installation of wooden flooring in living quarters.