Linoleum - the properties and characteristics of laying

Linoleum - the advantages and disadvantages

The advantages of such a linoleum, in addition to sustainability, include a long service life, high strength and wear resistance.Due linseed oil it has antibacterial properties, antistatic, neutral to household chemicals and very resistant to aggressive media, substantially non-flammable, and moreover, in contrast to conventional linoleum without touching melted by smoldering cigarettes.

In turn, the disadvantages of this material are its high price, the inability to use in damp and unheated rooms, it calls for a very careful attitude when installing, due to the high brittleness of the material at its kinking.

Laying of natural linoleum - preparatory work for quality

laying linoleum need to carefully prepare base , since the specificity of this coating requires higher requirements for its strength and evenness.In addition, the base must be clean, dry, absorbent moisture (due to the specific properties of the glue that is used for laying of the covering).In most cases, conditions for achieving these surface preparation is done using self-leveling mixtures.

For paving need the following tools : roulette, industrial dryer, notched trowel, roller rolling linoleum knife for cutting, kombirazmetchik, sickle-shaped knife, vacuum cleaner.

start stacking - and especially good advice

Laying linoleum should be made with the maximum accuracy, it is desirable to the efforts of two people.Pre-material for acclimatization, you must stand in the room where it will be laying during the day in an upright position.Just to rewind rolls inward facing surface (to reduce longitudinal shrinkage using vodnodispersnogo glue).

Cut sheets linoleum size of the room, paying attention to the direction of stacking, marked on the reverse side rolls arrows coincide.

plaster can be used generally for smooth cutting lines.The edges at the joints need to go to each other by 2 cm to compensate for irregularities in the substrate.

Then open the container with a special adhesive vodnodispersnym and thoroughly mix it.Then, a notched trowel we put on the prepared base glue rate of 250 g / m2.Glued cover bands should be, for which the adhesive is applied to the 5-10 cm more than their dimensions.

Continuing work on the installation

next step is rolling glued strips roller (preferably steel, weighing at least 10 kg) for uniform distribution of the glue and remove the air from under the cover.First, you need to roll across the canvas, and then after 15 minutes - along.

overlap on the joints cut through with a knife at an angle, only docked to the top edge so that the expansion under the influence of the water component of the adhesive was not squeezing linoleum in the joints, what would have happened if the edge can bridge across the thickness of the coating.Now carefully the rolled joints and finish work until the adhesive dries.

After drying by using embroidered kombirazmetchika joints a welding cord, then thoroughly vacuum the seam.Before soldering joints on the hair, wear a special nozzle for a welding rod and heated to a temperature of 350 ° C.

After sealing all seams crescent knife (for hot) cut off most of the protruding seam.Finish pruning seams produce after cooling to avoid the formation of grooves on the spot welds due to their shrinkage.Coverage of the linoleum is ready for operation.