To date, there is a huge number of natural and artificial flooring on sale. Someone likes a practical linoleum, some do not represent their house without carpet. Nevertheless, ahead of the planet is a wooden parquet. It is not surprising, because a tree is not only extremely beautiful, but also environmentally friendly material.
The most popular type of parquet is a massive board – even in ancient times, people linished the floor with neat boards of the same length and thickness. Compared to piece parquet, the array has a number of advantages. So, the massive board has a longer service life, looks more expensive, and is also easy to lay (the strips are interconnected by a lock connection or using Ship-Paz technology).
A room, which, for example, decorates a massive bamboo board, will always look cozy and at the same time elegant. In view of a huge number of parquet options, every homeowner can feel like a real designer and choose exactly the type of massive board that will transform the room and make it play with new colors.
The purchase of a massive board cannot be called a simple activity, and the point is not at all that of the hundreds of options for a truly magnificent parking, it is difficult to choose the most. There are certain subtleties that everyone who decides to acquire this flooring should know. What characteristics of a massive board need to pay attention to when buying?
For many consumers, the color becomes a decisive factor. The most popular are light woods of wood, that is, types such as a massive walnut board or beech. The fact is that such a floor visually increases the space, fills it with light. In Russia, the most popular floor covers of maple, beech, ash, larch and oak are. In small rooms, a massive board from pink woods looks equally organic: cherries, cherries, pears, pink maple. Darker wood (red, brown-honey, chocolate shades) looks very elegant, but only in large rooms is good.
Over time, a massive board can darken under the influence of light. An indicator by which we can judge a change in the color of wood is the degree of oxidation. If the array has a high degree of oxidation, this means that a significant darkening will be noted through a certain temporary interval. Especially this fact must be taken into account when buying a massive board for rooms located on the sunny side of the house.
It is important to know such indicators of a massive board as stability and degree of shrinkage. Why? As you know, in our country there are strong changes in temperature and humidity. Under such conditions, a massive board of some wood can be stole unpredictably: to be covered with microcracks, to crumble, to flush. Stable wood species, such as oak, ash, tick, mirbau, most of all react to moisture differences, especially characteristic of the winter period. In the structure of such breeds – oils and tannins that prevent decay and hardening when drying out. By the stability and degree of shrinkage of one of the best, the massive oak board is: it does not rot with leaks, it becomes stronger every year.
Most of the purchased massive board is going on to lay the floor in private houses (cottages, apartments), the premises of which are difficult to call passing. That is why homeowners do not attach much importance to the parquet hardness – a massive board of even low hardness with a working layer of 10 mm in such conditions will last at least 40 years. With large loads on abrasion (in office rooms, gyms, on scenes), preference should be given preference to a parquet of wood with high hardness: larch, maple, ash, oak, wenge, mirbau.
A very large impact on the visual perception of a massive board has the expressiveness of the texture of the tree. It is proved that the contrasting drawing charges with energy, while the homogeneous texture of the floor soothes. If it comes to saturated colors and unusual combinations, you can not help but mention breasting – a method of processing wood in which you can get a massive board with a pronounced structure of annual rings. When tinted with wood processed, it is easy to play in contrasts: color pores in one color, and the main wood in another. Merbau’s brown massive board with blue pores or dark oak with white pores – reality and the embodiment of the most daring design fantasies.
Long service life, aesthetic attractiveness, a variety of colors and textures – that is why a massive board is the most popular wooden flooring. Nevertheless, when buying, it is worthwhile to distract a little from the bewitching beauty of wooden rings and carefully study the key characteristics of the array: hardness, degree of oxidation and shrinkage, stability.